SYNOPSIS
Feature-length documentary examining the life and career of the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in
education from Columbia University’s Teachers College in 1929.

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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
David Rae Morris is a photographer and filmmaker based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born in
Oxford, England and grew up in New York City. He holds a B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA,
in 1982, and an M.A. In Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota in 1991.His
photographs and films have been published, exhibited and shown widely. His book “Love, Daddy: Letters
From My Father,” portions of which were exhibited at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans
in 2007, and again in 2022, was published by the University Press of Mississippi in April 2022. It won the
2023 Photography Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. His film, “Yazoo Revisited:
Integration and Segregation in a Deep Southern Town” revisited the integration of the public schools in
his father’s hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi. His current film, “My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is: The
Legacy of Dr. Jane Ellen McAllister,” which examines the life of the first black woman to get a Ph.D. in
education from Columbia University’s Teachers College in 1929 is currently making the rounds on the
festival circuit. It won Best Feature Documentary at the Jackson Film Festival in Mississippi in last July and
Best Feature Documentary and the Mary E. Mills Social Justice Impact Award at the Tennessee
International Independent Film Festival in November.

Meet the filmmaker for a Q&A after the screening.