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new college cinema: Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemerative
Date:
Monday, January 21, 2002
Time:
8:00 PM
-
10:00 PM
Event Type:
Screening
Organizer/Author:
joe marraffino
Location Details:
New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street
New College Cinema, Week of January 21st
SPECIAL SHOWING FOR
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY
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Monday, January 21st, 8:00 pm:
- MARTIN LUTHER KING, A COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION
- EYES ON THE PRIZE: NO EASY WALK
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MARTIN LUTHER KING A COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION
This absorbing video is footage of Martin Luther King Jr., and a
well-rounded picture of the civil-rights movement, beginning with a
conversation with Coretta Scott King, Dr. King's wife, describing how her
husband's mission has guided how she lives her life today. Throughout the
video are more conversations with Coretta and other friends and colleagues
of Dr. King including Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Edward Kennedy, Bill
Cosby, Andrew Young, Joan Baez, former President Jimmy Carter, and
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The raw footage of the 1963 March on Washington is
glorious and striking for Dr. King's "Free at Last" speech and the shots of
200,000 people standing beneath the Lincoln Memorial. There are also several
of Dr. King's most memorable addresses in their entirety such as the
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Civil Disobedience and Nonviolent Struggle, the
March on Washington, and his final address in Memphis. Overall The
Commemorative Collection is a great teacher about the civil-rights era in
history, and is also a wonderful compilation of Dr. King's addresses.
EYES ON THE PRIZE: NO EASY WALK
In the 1950s and 1960s, America fought a second revolution to secure
"inalienable rights" and equal treatment under the law -- a second
revolution to make "liberty and justice for all" a reality for black
Americans as well as white. The fight was waged by blacks and whites in the
streets and the churches, the courts and the schools of the American South.
It was a struggle for racial integration and equal rights that changed the
fabric of American life, a struggle whose reverberations continue to be
felt.
Eyes on the Prize chronicles the civil rights years through the individual
stories of people compelled by a meeting of conscience and circumstance to
play a role in history. These are the stories of blacks and whites, of civil
rights organizers from the South and the North, of government officials at
all levels, of Southerners who fought to maintain a way of life they had
cherished since Reconstruction and of blacks who were determined to make
America live up to its promise of equality. Some played their parts and
faded back into obscurity; others became household names in the America of
the time and permanent figures on the pages of history.
"No Easy Walk, 1961-1963," the fourth program in the six part series,
documents the years when the movement embraced a new strategy: the mass
demonstration, which was tried out in Albany, Georgia, and Birmingham,
Alabama. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., emerges as the most articulate
and charismatic proponent of nonviolence as he leads the March on
Washington, DC, revealing broad national support for the civil rights
movement.
New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street.
8:00 pm. $3-5 donation requested.
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NEW COLLEGE CINEMA is a repertory house for progressive political and
cultural documentary films.
We host an array of films on our ecological degradation and revolutionary
alternatives,
as well as eclectic assembly of films on politics and social justice
movements.
New College is dedicated to educating toward a more just, sacred, and
sustainable world.
www.newcollege.edu/events
for more information contact joe@climinal.as
Special thanks to the Real Food Company for the donation of organic popcorn.
Added to the calendar on Tue, Feb 3, 2004 10:24AM
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