Monday, February 09, 2015 at 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Multicultural Student Services Center, Hardge Forum (101)
74 Lower College Rd, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
SNOW - RESCHEDULED -- FEB. 9, 4 p.m.
This documentary film, "The March," directed by John Akomfrah of U.K.-based Smoking Dogs Films (with Lina Gopaul and David Lawson) and co-produced by Robert Redford's Sundance Productions, recounts the story behind the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr delivered the final stirring rendition of his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of more than 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall.
Narrated by Denzel Washington, the film describes the buildup to one of the peak moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States by interspersing rarely seen archival footage of influential power-elites from diverse races with interviews of the diverse surviving organizers and spokespeople of the March. The March laid the foundation for the passage of the Civil Rights Act (1964).
This URI screening and discussion will be facilitated by Associate Professor of Theatre Bryna Wortman, who attended the 1963 March.
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