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Following a prolonged legal struggle in 1973, Maple became the first African-American woman admitted to the New York camera operators union. She described her lawsuits and struggle in a self-published autobiographical book, How to Become a Union Camerawoman (1976). In a 2020 interview, she said, "After I passed the test and got into the cameraman’s union, then they told the studios not to hire me and blacklisted me. I decided, well, I’m going to fight this....I decided, let me get this out the way, I sued them all at once, ABC, CBS, NBC, and I won." CITE NuBlockMuseum. February 6, 2020. “I invest in myself and I make my films”: Jessie Maple on breaking boundaries and filmmaking" https://nublockmuseum.blog/2020/02/06/i-invest-in-myself-and-i-make-my-films-jessie-maple-on-breaking-boundaries-and-filmmaking-audio/

Working for many years as a news camerawoman, Maple recounts she had her best moment when she realized she could "edit the story in the camera and prevent the editor from taking a positive story and making a negative one out of it," particularly in stories with a race element where black people were often left out of the news story. According to Maple, "I would shoot [the story] in a way where they couldn't cut the black person out of [it]. They had to see both sides of what happened and what they had to say." In 1974 Maple cofounded LJ Films Productions with her husband, Leroy Patton, to produce short documentaries.

Leftime is not a month from the French Revolution. Months in the French Revolutionary Calendar