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Black Bottom & Paradise Valley The Forgotten Legacy

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Black Bottom & Paradise Valley The Forgotten Legacy is a video documentary aimed at not only highlighting the history and accomplishments of these two communities but also aimed to bring international recognition to a history of a people that has been ignored by the world.
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Executive Summary for the DVD-Video documentary
Project Mission Statement
For more than 300 years, black and white children in many schools in the City of Detroit and State of Michigan have been told that blacks have had no real history until the civil rights era. However the facts show that Michigan's African Americans not only helped to shape Michigan's history, but also influenced Canadian history and changed the course of American history. The "no slavery" clause in the 1789 - Northwest Ordinance Treaty, the Underground Railroad, the freedom amendments to the U.S. Constitution, reasons why the segregated communities of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley existed in the "northern city" of Detroit, and the eventual bulldozing of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley that forced the city to integrate, have been forgotten by many historians and left out of most history books -- until now!
Black Bottom & Paradise Valley, The Forgotten Legacy is a video documentary aimed at not only highlighting the history and accomplishments of these two communities but also aimed to bring international recognition to a history of a people that has been ignored by the world.
Problem Statement
Detroit city records don't recognize Black Bottom or Paradise Valley as viable, thriving communities but rather as city slums that were destined for "urban renewal". Although Detroit is now a predominately black city, many residents under the age of 50 don't recognize the names of Black Bottom or Paradise Valley or have any connection to the communities where their grandparents were segregated to live more than 60 years ago. Most of the elders who lived and thrived in these two communities are now over 70 years old and the memories of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley are dying with them.
If something isn't done now to save Detroit's Black Bottom and Paradise Valley history via modern media capabilities, the opportunities to collect, save, and distribute this history, will be gone.
Project Summary
Through interviews with former residents of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley that are supplemented with never-before-shared historical pictures of the communities, the rise and fall of Detroit's oldest black neighborhoods will be traced and highlighted. The ninety minute documentary, Black Bottom & Paradise Valley, The Forgotten Legacy, will also compare the realities and myths of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley to contemporary conditions in Detroit.
Expected Results
When competed and with proper marketing of the documentary to educational, historical, community, government, and cultural communities, Black Bottom & Paradise Valley, The Forgotten Legacy will also be aired as four program segments for the television series, The Helen Street Report and offered to international markets for broadcast.
Our Investment
Gryot Productions has completed production of Black Bottom & Paradise Valley, The Forgotten Legacy and held a first screening of the documentary in June 2007 to appreciative audiences.
An estimated $40,000 has been invested by Gryot Productions for the documentary's research, pre-production, production, editing and promotions.
In-kind Contributions
Several non-profit historical and entertainment organizations have contributed their time and talents to the making of this documentary. These organizations include:
The 102nd Colored United States Troop Re-enactors, The Second Baptist Church Historical Committee & Combined Choirs, I'yawo Dance Theater, The University of Detroit Mercy Theatre Company, The Hastings Street Society, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History, Mackinac State Historic Parks, and many local historians.
Funding Request
Gryot Productions, a non-profit corporation, is requesting a total of $5,000 from your organization/company/corporation for post-production, marketing, and film documentary competition application fees for the Black Bottom & Paradise Valley, The Forgotten Legacy documentary.
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