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Film Screening and Discussion: Freedom Summer
Join us for a screening of the film "Freedom Summer," part of the Created Equal film series -- a National Film Project by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Date: Tuesday, February 14
- Time: 4 to 6 p.m.
- Location: Cohen Lounge, Dickson Hall
- Co-sponsors: Center of Pedagogy, the Agenda for Education in a Democracy, the Department of History and African and African American Studies
- Organizer: For further information please contact Leslie Wilson: wilsonl@mail.montclair.edu
About the film
"In 1964, less than 7% of Mississippi’s African Americans were registered to vote. In many rural counties, African Americans made up the majority of the population and the segregationist white establishment was prepared to use any means necessary to keep them away from the polls and out of elected office. For years, local civil rights workers had tried to increase voter registration amongst African Americans. Those who wished to vote had to face the local registrar, an all-powerful white functionary who would often publish their names in the paper and pass the word on to their employers and bankers. And if loss of jobs and the threat of violence wasn’t enough to dissuade them, the complex and arcane testing policies were certain to keep them off the rolls."
More on the Created Equal project
Created Equal is a national film project by the National Endowment for the Humanities.