A Community Called Orange Mound

About A Community Called Orange Mound

Orange Mound is a southeast Memphis neighborhood with a surprising legacy. With roots going back to the time of plantations and slavery, Orange Mound grew at the end of the nineteenth century out of the remains of that defunct way of life.

Jay Killingsworth's A Community Called Orange Mound is a 2013 documentary film. Its themes are civil rights and african american history.

Wendell Payton plays Narrator. It runs 57 minutes and was released in February 2013.

Selma, Malcolm X, and Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) make useful companions to A Community Called Orange Mound. It carries a G rating.