Kennedy's assassination, shot by. Laura Lee (LaLee) Wallace, a great-granddaughter of a slave, is an illiterate year-old woman who has been living all her life in Tallahatchie County, one of the poorest in the United States. She has two surviving son, nine daughters, 38 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren.
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Lalee and her kids live in a Delta county where many people are trapped in a vicious cycle that started with 19th-century slavery, continued through 20th-century Jim Crow and sharecropping, and. On Christmas Eve, a young boy LALEE'S KIN: THE LEGACY OF COTTON profiles LaLee Wallace, the year-old matriarch of an extended family struggling to overcome poverty, illiteracy and a background of sharecropping in Mississippi's rural Tallahatchie County.
Florence Lowden Miller (1898-1988) The story zeroes in on Laura Lee Wallace AKA LaLee, a woman whose life has been the culmination of several factors outside her control. Having been brought up to grow cotton, LaLee faces a crossroads as her employment and livelihood take a hit.
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Abraham. MA. Pastoral Coun: Laura Lee "LaLee" Wallace was the focal point of a gut-wrenching documentary titled LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton. The film dissects the effects that slavery and the cotton trade have had on the Mississippi Delta and Tallahatchie, where LaLee and her large family are from.
A General History of The documentary profiled Laura Lee Wallace, a woman raising her grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the West Tallahatchie School District (the poorest school district in the nation at the time). The legal assistant spread the word to the attorneys and staff of Holland & Hart and its foundation, who were moved to act.
Abraham, Senior Advisor, Pacific and Development This heartbreaking documentary depicts the extreme poverty of an African-American family and their Mississippi Delta school district. LaLee's Kin takes us deep into the Mississippi Delta and the intertwined lives of LaLee Wallace, a great-grandmother struggling to hold her world together in the face of dire poverty, and Reggie Barnes, superintendent of the embattled West Tallahatchie School.