Black History Month film screening: AT THE RIVER I STAND
Wednesday, February 13, 7:00 PM
at the Black Film Center/Archive, Wells Library, Room
044B
Associate Professor of History Alex Lichtenstein will
introduce the film and lead a discussion following the screening.
Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil
Rights movement. AT THE RIVER I STAND skillfully reconstructs the two
eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a
national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that
came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
This documentary brings into sharp relief issues that have only become more urgent in the intervening years: the connection between economic and civil rights, debates over strategies for change, the demand for full inclusion of African Americans in American life and the fight for dignity for public employees and all working people.
This documentary brings into sharp relief issues that have only become more urgent in the intervening years: the connection between economic and civil rights, debates over strategies for change, the demand for full inclusion of African Americans in American life and the fight for dignity for public employees and all working people.
"One of the most clearheaded, evenhanded
documentaries about the civil rights movement you'll ever see, and a piece of
gripping story-telling as well." -Dallas Observer
Erik Barnouw Award Recipient, Best Documentary,
Organization of American Historians
This free screening is part of the Black History Month
series at the Black Film Center/Archive, co-sponsored by the Department of
African American and African Diaspora Studies, the Department of History, and
the Black Law Students Association.
