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5 unusual facts about Julie Dash


Julie Dash

The film follows her life and her marriage to Raymond Parks (Peter Francis James) as they deal with the issues of segregation, Jim Crow and second-class status in 1950s Alabama.

Dash's book Daughters of the Dust: A Novel (1997) is a sequel to the film, set 20 years later in Harlem and the Sea Islands.

In 2004 Dash made Brothers of the Borderland, a work commissioned by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Her Brothers of the Borderland (2004) was commissioned by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Vertamae Grosvenor

She appeared in the film Daughters of the Dust (1992), directed by Julie Dash, which was about a Gullah family in 1902, at a time of transition on the Sea Islands.


The Rosa Parks Story

The Rosa Parks Story is a 2002 American television movie written by Paris Qualles and directed by Julie Dash.


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