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African American Research Library and Cultural Center
2650 Sistrunk Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL
March 28, 2024 6pm
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
2024, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
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PAST SCREENINGS
PAN AFRICAN FILM & ARTS FESTIVAL
WORLD PREMIERE in Los Angeles, CA * Saturday, February 11th, 2023
SEBASTOPOL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, March 18th, 2023 12:45pm Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St. Sebastopol, CA
ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, March 24th, 2023 12:15pm Asbury United Methodist Church, 87 West St. Annapolis, MD
CINEMAPOLIS ITHACA, NEW YORK
May 12th - 19th, 2023
HARLEM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, May 27, 2023, 6:30pm, Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY
AFRICAN DIASPORA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
June 18, 2023, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N State St, Chicago, IL
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC
COMMUNITY DAY JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION
June 19, 2023, 510 Broadway Ave, Nashville, TN
WASHINGTON DC
July 12, 2023, 5:30pm, 555 11th Street Northwest, Washington, DC
DETROIT TRINITY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
July, 2023 Date/Time TBD, Detroit, MI
MARTHA'S VINEYARD AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
August 9, 2023, 1pm
BRONZELENS FILM FESTIVAL OF ATLANTA
August 27th, 2023, Southwest Arts Center, 915 New Hope Rd, SW, Atlanta, GA
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CORNELL CINEMA
October 18th, 7pm, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca, NY
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UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL
October 23, 4:30 PM, Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH LEICESTER - SERENDIPITY INSTITUTE FOR BLACK ARTS AND HERITAGE
October 25, 7:00 PM, Phoenix, Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG, United Kingdom
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CAYUGA FILM FESTIVAL
November 3, 2023, Auburn Public Theater, Auburn, NY
Harriet Tubman Freedom Award Winner 2023
FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL
November 2023, Fairhope, AL
AFRICAN DIASPORA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL NEW YORK
December 2, 2023, 8pm, Cowin Center at Teachers College
Columbia University, Horace Mann Hall, 147 3040 Broadway, New York, NY
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ITHACA COLLEGE
February 22, 2024, 6pm, Park Auditorium
Community Welcome!
Dr. Dorothy Cotton
From the Dorothy Cotton Institute website:
"Dorothy Cotton is one of the most important unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and her accomplishments are a testament to the essential but often overlooked role of women in that and other liberation struggles. As Education Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) her leadership contributed significantly to a movement that has altered the course of social and political life in the United States and transformed the place of African Americans and all people of color in civic engagement and leadership."
Citizenship Education Program
From the Dorothy Cotton Institute website:
"The Citizenship Education Program (CEP) led by Dorothy Cotton (with a team including Andrew Young, Bernice Robinson, Ben Mack, Victoria Gray Adams, BJ Johnson, Annell Ponder and Septima Clark), was a critical component of the SCLC’s overall organizing strategy. The CEP helped ordinary people identify what was intolerable in their circumstances, envision the changes they desired, learn their civil rights, prepare for democratic engagement, and craft courageous strategies for organizing communities and speaking truth to power. It fostered the transformation of often poorly educated and disenfranchised people from “victims” to full “citizens.” The victories won as a result of this work, and the systemic and social changes attained through the growing power of the African American electorate and its emerging leadership, ultimately led to state and federal protections against discrimination in voting, access to public accommodations, housing and employment throughout the nation."
"[...]But another less well-known component of SCLC engaged in voter education work in the form of the Citizenship Education Program (CEP). The idea for a citizenship education program for potential Black voters was born during a 1954 workshop at the Highlander Folk School in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee. Septima Clark, a Charleston school teacher who had been fired from her job because of her NAACP activities, was leading the workshop. One of the attendees was Esau Jenkins, a Black farmer, businessman and former student of Septima Clark from the majority-Black John’s Island off the coast of Charleston. He said he wanted to create a school to teach literacy to Black residents of John’s Island, most of whom were unable to vote because they were illiterate or could barely read and write."
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