The Ed Pincus collection consists of approximately 90 hours of 16mm black and white film footage used to create two civil rights era documentaries, Black Natchez (1967) and Panola (1970). Filmmakers Ed Pincus and David Neuman shot the footage in Natchez, Mississippi, between June and September 1965. In 1967, they returned to Natchez and shot 10 additional hours of film for a planned sequel to Black Natchez, which was never produced.

For ten weeks in 1965, filmmakers Ed Pincus and David Neuman filmed in Natchez, Mississippi, charting the early attempts of the Freedom Democratic Party and NAACP to organize and register Black voters, also capturing the formation of the self-defense group, the Deacons for Defense and Justice. During this period the car of Natchez NAACP president George Metcalfe was bombed. This footage became the basis for the documentary Black Natchez and Panola, which focused on the life of a single African American man at the height of the chaos.