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A Crossroads Film Festival Review: “Elport Chess and the Lanier High School Bus Boycott of 1947”

By Janice K. Neal-Vincent Contributing Writer Listed among films made by Mississippi’s women filmmakers is Elport Chess and the Lanier High School Bus Boycott of 1947. Wilma Emma Mosley Clopton, Ph.D., the movie’s writer/producer/director, calls […]