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Two Towns of Jasper

Two Towns of Jasper

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 13, 2002

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Two Towns of Jasper

Director

Whitney Dow

Description

Using two separate filmmaking teams (an all-white crew filming white residents and an all-black camera crew filming black residents), TWO TOWNS OF JASPER captures very different racial views by townsfolk in Jasper, Texas, the location for a racially motivated murder of an African American man in 1998.