David Rae Morris

Yazoo City, Mississippi, Integration, Race Relations, 1970, Brown vs. Board, Segregation, The South, Resegregation, WIllie Morris, David Rae Morris

David Rae Morris was born in Oxford, England and grew up in New York City. He holds a B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts (1982) and an M.A. In Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota (1991). He has spent most of his career working as a photo-journalist and documentary photographer. His photographs have been published and exhibited widely. His first short film "Drawing on A Dream," about Mississippi Delta musician and artist Jerry Lee "Duff" Dorrough (http://vimeo.com/29587274 ), was produced with Susan Allen Dobbs at the Barefoot Workshops in Clarksdale, MS in September 2011. He latest work, "Integrating Ole Miss:  James Meredith and Beyond," which marks the 50th anniversary of James Meredith's enrollment at the University of Mississippi will air on Mississippi Public Broadcasting September 30th. He is currently seeking funding to complete a feature-length documentary, Yazoo Revisited, which examines the integration of the public schools in his father's hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi in January 1970, and picks up the story where his 1971 book, "Yazoo: Integration in a Deep Southern Town" leaves off.

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