Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White is a series of three feature length films telling the story of modern Southern Literature, one of the major cultural achievements of our time. The series is divided as follows: I. Tell About the South - Part One tells the story of modern Southern Literature before World War II. It features William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Erskine Caldwell, Margaret Mitchell, the Fugitive Poets, the Blues poets and many more. Tell About the South was screened on national PBS in summer, 1998. II. Prophets and Poets - Part Two of the series tells the story of Southern Literature from 1940 until the Civil Rights Movement. It features Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Ellison, Lillian Smith, Flannery O'Connor and many more. Prophets and Poets premiered at the Virginia Festival of the Book in March, 1999. III. Let Freedom Ring - Part Three of the series tells the story of Southern Literature from the Civil Rights Movement until the present. It features Walker Percy, Alice Walker, William Styron, Ernest Gaines, Reynolds Price, Alex Haley, Margaret Walker, Lee Smith, Larry Brown, Clyde Edgerton, Pat Conroy and many more. Let Freedom Ring premiered in February 2000.