A LEGACY PROJECT
This clip is a brief excerpt of 15 hours of recordings that document the lives of 4 generations of American women. They are my paternal mothers -- The Sanders Women. Their story begins near 1845 in Shreveport, Louisiana. This historically significant narrative moves off the slave plantation, up the Great migration, through Chicago's Jazz band scene, the roaring twenties, into the Great Depression in Harlem and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's.The sisters, passing for white at will, glided between the chorus lines of the Cotton club uptown to the Zeigfield Follies on Broadway. Included on the recordings are stories of ommunist recruitment meetings, J. Edgar Hoover's 'other' life and the American Negro Theater in Harlem.