Civil Rights Films

Dream Deferred

1964, 34 min., black/white, DVD

Dream Deferred was produced by SNCC for its Southern voter registration drive in 1964 (as was We'll Never Turn Back).

Filmed in Mississippi and Alabama, it contains interviews with activist Amzie Moore, voter registrants and SNCC leaders. It also features Fannie Lou Hamer's speech, including her famous line: "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."

Topics: Jim Crow segregation, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, anti-racism, 1960s.

The making of this film is discussed in Primary Source Documentaries: The Making of We’ll Never Turn Back (1963) and Dream Deferred (1964) (PDF).

Other civil rights films:

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Licensing

Richards’ still photography in the South began during his 1959 trip through the region (see "Mississippi 1959"). He also shot still photos during his two film projects in 1963 and 1964 (see "Civil Rights Activists") and on many other occasions in the San Francsico Bay Area during local civil rights protests of that era.



© Paul Richards
"Fannie Lou Hamer runs for Congress 1964" from Dream Deferred

© Paul Richards
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Mississippi 1959


Cover of Critical Focus
Critical Focus:
The Black and White
Photographs of
Harvey Wilson Richards

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