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Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders. Prod. by Joan Sadoff, Robert Sadoff, and Laura J. Lipson, 2002. 60 mins. (Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, Suite 500WS, New York, NY 10013; 212-925-0606, ext. 317; <orders@ wmm.com>; <www.wmm.com> [Sept. 13, 2004])
Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders is an important sixty-minute documentary on the civil rights movement in Mississippi and the female leaders and rank-and-file activists who constituted its "grass-roots foundation." Standing highlights those "black sisters who lent their shoulders for us to stand on."
The film argues that women rose to prominence in Mississippi's freedom struggle in part because "it was less risky" for black women than for black men "to be in positions of high profile." In addition, women were most of the "doers and organizers" in the black...