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Free Documentary Screenings

Title:Free Documentary Screenings
Date & Time:Fri Sep 25, 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.

Freedom Riders (2011, 120 minutes)
A Film by Stanley Nelson. A Firelight Media production for American Experience. Written, produced, and directed by Stanley Nelson. Produced by Laurens Grant. Edi¬tors Lewis Erskine and Al Jernon Tunsh. Original Concept Developed by Paul Taylor. Director of Photography Robert Shepard. Composer Tom Phillips. Based in part on the book Freedom Riders by Raymond Arsenault. American Experience is a production of WGBH Boston.

Attracting a diverse group of volunteers—black and white, young and old, male and female, secular and religious, northern and southern—the Freedom Rides of 1961 took the civil rights struggle out of the courtroom and onto the streets of the Jim Crow South. Freedom Riders tells the terrifying, moving, and suspenseful story of a time when white and black volunteers riding a bus into the Deep South risked being jailed, beaten, or killed, as white local and state authorities ignored or encouraged violent attacks. The film includes previously unseen amateur 8-mm footage of the burning bus on which some Freedom Riders were temporarily trapped, taken by a local twelve-year-old and held as evidence since 1961 by the FBI.

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/11416
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