Library Screening of Freedom Riders

On Tuesday, March 25th, the library will have a screening of the PBS documentary, Freedom Riders in the Multimedia Resource Center projection room (A432) at 11:30am.  Prof. Dionne Bennett of the African-American Department will facilitate this discussion for not only its historical significance, but also to highlight women’s contribution to the Civil Rights Movement. March is Women’s History Month.
Refreshments will also be served.
httpv://youtu.be/d8CAKAXR-AM
All City Tech community members and the public are invited to participate in our film and discussion series tracing the history of the Civil Rights movement in the United States. The Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle grant is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Freedom Riders  and the other films part of the grant, The Abolitionists, Slavery By Another Name, and The Loving Story are all available in the library’s multimedia collection.
Prof. Bennett holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles where she studied in the Psychocultural Studies and Medical Anthropology Program.She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Anthropology and Literature from Yale University. She was previously the Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Detroit Mercy and an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and a Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She has been a fellow of Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Ford Foundation, and the UCLA President’s Office. She has been an associate of the The Hiphop Archive at Harvard University since its founding in 2002 by Marcyliena Morgan. She is the author, with photographer Matthew Jordan Smith, of Sepia Dreams: A Celebration of Black Achievement through Words and Images, co-editor ofRevolutions of the Mind: Cultural Studies in the African Diaspora Project 1996-2002 (CAAS Publications, University of California Los Angeles, 2003), and a contributor to Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities (NYU Press, 2010).
For more information about the screening please contact Prof. Junior Tidal – jtidal@citytech.cuny.edu