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Inherit the Land (2022)
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Inherit the Land (2022)

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At the turn of the 20th century, two wealthy antebellum white sisters in Marvin, N.C., wrote a will leaving their 800-acrehomeplace to Bob Ross, a Black man, and his daughter Mittie Bell Ross Houston who had grown up in their home. Maggie ...See moreAt the turn of the 20th century, two wealthy antebellum white sisters in Marvin, N.C., wrote a will leaving their 800-acrehomeplace to Bob Ross, a Black man, and his daughter Mittie Bell Ross Houston who had grown up in their home. Maggie and Sallie Ross made the bequest while violence, voter suppression and newly erected Confederate monuments to white supremacy dominated race relations in the culture around them. When the will was revealed, more than 100 of their cousins challenged it, asserting that the bequest proved that Maggie Ross was mentally incompetent to make a will. Two white juries in Monroe, N.C., upheld the will in the 1920s. The Charlotte Observer wrote, "Perhaps not greater temptation was ever placed before a jury to break a will, but it made bold to establish justice for Negroes and write a triumph for the law." Their significant participation in the cotton economy empowered other Black families to become landowning farmers and led to generations of unbroken racial harmony in the rural community that endures today. Inherit the Land, based on the 2006 history Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will, tells the story from its 19th-century origins to the present. Written by Gene Stowe See less

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Kevin J. O'Connor John Sikes (Monroe, NC Mayor & Lawyer) John Sikes (Monroe, NC Mayor & Lawyer) See fewer	Iron Man 3 (2013)
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Finley Duncan Lillie Jane Lillie Jane See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Judy Simpson Cook Maggie Maggie See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Jay N. Cohen Frank Crane Frank Crane See fewer	Apart But A Part
Marlena Allison Harriet Grier / Portia Harriet Grier / Portia See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
George Smith AM (Amos) Stack AM (Amos) Stack See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Mike Jeffcoat RA Hudson RA Hudson See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Billy Vinson Bob Ross (60) Bob Ross (60) See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Jeff Carpenter Judge J. Bis Ray Judge J. Bis Ray See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Maya Williamson Mittie Bell (18) Mittie Bell (18) See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Farrah Brown Mittie Bell (10) Mittie Bell (10) See fewer	Georgia Peach
Nathan Westbrook Policeman Policeman See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Steve Turner JG Parks JG Parks See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Sallie Patterson Sallie Sallie See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Elwin Houston Bob Ross (30) Bob Ross (30) See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
James Potts III Dr. RM. Potts Dr. RM. Potts See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Janet Westbrook Harriet Taylor Harriet Taylor See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)
Susan Sganga Jamina Taylor Jamina Taylor See fewer	Inherit the Land (2022)