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Free Documentary Screenings

Title:Free Documentary Screenings
Date & Time:Wed Sep 23, 2015 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location:Alexandria Black History Museum, 902 Wythe St. (Map This)
Event Details:The Alexandria Black History Museum (ABHM) is offering documentary screenings of four films September 22nd - September 25th. The screenings are free and open to the public. This program part of National Endowments for the Humanities and the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle Grant. The grant is part of the Bridging Cultures initiative. This important initiative encourages public conversations about the changing meanings of freedom and equality in U.S. history and civic life. The screenings are being offered in conjunction with the ABHM and 1882 Foundation’s programming on Civil Rights and Immigration.

Slavery by Another Name (2012, 90 minutes)
A production of TPT National Productions in association with Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc. Produced and directed by Sam Pollard. Executive Producer Catherine Allan. Co-Executive Producer Douglas A. Blackmon. Written by Sheila Curran Bernard. Edited by Jason Pollard. Narrated by Laurence Fishburne. Original Score by Michael Bacon.
It was a shocking reality that often went unacknowledged, then and now: a huge system of forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting Southern black men, that lasted until World War II. Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning book by Douglas Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name tells the stories of men, charged with crimes like vagrancy, and often guilty of nothing, who were bought and sold, abused, and subjected to sometimes deadly working conditions as unpaid convict labor. Interviews with the descendants of victims and perpetrators resonate with a modern audience. Christina Comer, who discovered how her family profited from the system, says that “the story is important no matter how painful the reality is.”
Contact Phone No.:703.746.4356
Fees:Free
Audience:Anyone may attend
Tags:Black History Museum, Museums, Old & Historic Alexandria, Parker Gray


For event details visit http://www.alexandriava.gov/c/11414
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