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40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks is the production company of Spike Lee, founded in 1979. The company name is a reference to the phrase most often used to refer to the early Reconstruction period policy and episode of events , in which certain recently emancipated black families on the Georgia coast were given lots of land no larger ...
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Jan 24, 2022 · January 24, 2022 1:55pm. Sergio Garcia. EXCLUSIVE: After making a new overall deal at Netflix for his 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks late last year, Spike Lee has set Steven Jackson to...
May 20, 2024 · 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks is the production company of director Spike Lee, founded in 1979. It was named after an historical event where in 1865, General William T. Sherman ordered the distribution of 40 acres of lots to some freed African-American families on the Georgia coast, and also distributed some army mules .
Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha). Sherman later ordered the army to lend mules for the agrarian reform effort.
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