![]() ![]() The cover is different than what is shown in the picture of this listing. ![]() Resentful of Hernandez industriousness, the white townsfolk are eager to see him hang. In a small Mississippi town an African-American landowner (Juano Hernandez) is arrested on a murder charge. Set in Faulkners fictional Yoknapatawpha County, it is the story of Lucas Beauchamp, a black man wrongly arrested for the murder of Vinson Gowrie, a white man. Intruder in the Dust (1949) Country: USA. ![]() The Robert Meltzer Award (Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene) Ben Maddow. This paperback book cover has stickers/sticker residue on it. Based on William Faulkner's novel and filmed in his hometown of Oxford, Intruder in the Dust is both a gripping whodunit and a milestone of social-conscience filmmaking. Intruder in the Dust is at once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice. Reprinted from "Takin' It to the Streets:" A Sixties Reader, 2003 also available online at www. WGA Award (Screen) Best Written American Drama. Intruder in the Dust (1949) Plot Showing all 2 items Jump to: Summaries (2) Summaries In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge. No history of American cinema is complete without the inclusion of Oscar Micheaux, an enterprising writer/director/producer whose f… Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Excerpt from "The Basis of Black Power," 1966 In August of 1955, a 14-year-old Chicago youth was lynched while vacationing in Mississippi-just one of more than 3,000 free b… Fannie Lou Hamer, Hamer, Fannie Lou 1917–1977įannie Lou Hamer spent most of her life in rural southern poverty, entering politic… Bert Williams, Williams, Bert 1874–1922īert Williams was a great comedian, but his life and career was still touched by the great American tra… Robert Parris Moses, Moses, Robert Parris 1935-Ī dedicated activist whose thoughtfulness and integrity match his courage and tenacity, Robert Parris Moses was one of the… Oscar Micheaux, Filmmaker, author Intruder in the Dust may well be one of the larger fragments which originally was meant for Go Down, Moses, since the setting and the characters are all. ![]()
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