Please join us for another great IMAGES 2011 program: Special Screening: PBS American Experience film “Freedom Riders” Thursday, June 2 7-9pm At the Fairfield Museum and History Center located at 370 Beach Road, Fairfield, CT 06824.
Special Screening: PBS American Experience film “Freedom Riders”
Thursday, June 2
7-9pm
At the Fairfield Museum and History Center located at 370 Beach Road, Fairfield, CT 06824.
FREE and open to the public
The documentary Freedom Riders is the powerful, harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. In 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South.
This documentary from award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson premiered on PBS on May 16, 2011 and is based on Raymond Arsenault's book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
Special Post Discussion:
This special one-hour screening will be followed by a talk-back with producer and director Bill Buckley, reporter and artist Tracy Sugarman of Westport, Connecticut and Victoria Christgau, Executive Director and peace/arts educator of the Connecticut Center for Nonviolence. Buckley and Sugarman created Rediscovery Films, documenting the achievements of African Americans. Sugarman’s recent book, We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns, recalls Freedom Summer of 1964 when thousands of black and white students galvanized together to assist with voter registration by black citizens in the South. On his second day in Mississippi, three young volunteers, Andrew Goldman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, disappeared and were found murdered. They had been in the same training program as Sugarman.
Bill Eppridge documented the funeral of James Chaney for LIFE and these photographs are featured in the Museum’s exhibit IMAGES 2011.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Nonviolence, Hartford, CT
Film Credit:
An American Experience film. For more information: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
Fairfield Museum and History Center
370 Beach Road
Fairfield, CT 06824
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