“We were up against two problems,” said Mr. Cram, a principal at Northern Light Productions in Boston, explaining why it took so long to finance the film. “People actually wondered why they hadn’t heard of it. Number two, everyone thinks the civil rights story has been told.”
Mr. Cram and his co-producer, Ms. Richardson, were activists in the 1960s and had long wanted to tell this story.
“We’re combining our activist sensibilities with our longstanding filmmaking sensibilities,” Mr. Cram said. “I promise you this is not a polemic. It’s about people’s lives that were profoundly changed by a tragedy.”
Films Revisit Overlooked Shootings on a Black Campus
Original Coverage of the Orangeburg Massacre in The New York Times:
"3 Negro Students Shot in New Violence at Orangeburg, S.C.," Feb. 8, 1968
"Carolina Youth Was Shot in Back," Feb. 13, 1968
"South Carolina's Governor Says Black Militants Caused Rioting," Feb. 18, 1968
"Overuse of Force on Negroes Found," Feb. 25, 1968
"Charge of Laxity is Denied by F.B.I.," Oct. 10, 1970
Books of The Times: "Another Chapter for Record," Jan. 5, 1971
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