Fwd: Civil Rights documentary May 11
Gail Acree
From: Emmanuel Mennonite Church <gnvm...@bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:02 PM
Subject: Civil Rights documentary May 11
To: Eve MacMaster <eve...@aol.com>
WEDNESDAY, May 11: Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights
Years, 1954-1964, an award-winning documentary series on the Civil
Rights movement; 7:00 p.m. In this week’s episode, “Mississippi: Is
this America? (1963-1964)” Mississippi's grass-roots civil rights
movement becomes an American concern when college students
travel south to help register black voters and three activists are
murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the
regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention.
7 p.m. at the Mennonite Meeting House
Only three more sessions, May 11 and 18, the last two in the
Eyes on the Prize series, and May 25, music from the Civil Rights
Movement.
We have been tremendously enriched by having Zoharah Simmons
with us to lead a discussion after the screening. Last night she
told us about her experience in Mississippi with the Student
Non Violent Coordinating Committee, registering voters in a
dangerous environment.
That ‘Mississippi Summer’ is featured on the May 11 episode.