Celluloid for Social Justice: the Legacy of 1968 in Documentaries

Celluloid for Social Justice: 9/15 - 10/9 /2008

The Legacy of 1968 in Documentaries

Mon., Sep. 15, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

Strange Fruit. Closed captions. 57 minutes. 2002 [A Billie Holiday song.] and Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968. 56 minutes. 2008.

Tue., Sep. 16, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

Lumumba: La Mort du Prophête. (Lumumba: The Death of the Prophet.)

English subtitles. 70 minutes. 1992.

Wed., Sep. 17, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

February One. 42 minutes. 2004.

and The Strange Demise of Jim Crow. 56 minutes. 1998. [About desegregation.]

Thur., Sep. 18, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

The Price of the Ticket. 87 minutes. 1990. [About James Baldwin.]

Mon., Sep. 22, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

Aimé Césaire: Une voix pour l’histoire, une parole pour le XXIème siècle

1ère Partie: L’île veilleuse.

(Aimé Césaire, A Voice That Goes Down Through History – Part I: The Vigilant Island.)

English subtitles. 55 minutes. 1994.

Tue., Sep. 23, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

Hughes’ Dream Harlem. 61 minutes. 2002. [About Langston Hughes.]

Wed., Sep. 24, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

Freedom on My Mind. 110 minutes. 1994. [About Freedom Riders.]

Thur., Sep. 25, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

Clips from Huelga! [Strike!]. 24 min. 1966. [About unionizing farmworkers, courtesy of LeRoy Chatfield, Director, Farmworker Movement Documentation Project .]

Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power. Closed captions. 53 minutes. 2005. [African-American response to Klan brutality.]

Mon., Sep. 29, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

July ’64. Closed captions. 54 minutes. 2006. [Rebellion in Rochester, New York.]

Nosotros Venceremos [We Shall Overcome]. 11 minutes. Photographer Jon Lewis, 1967. [Courtesy of Farmworker Movement Documentation Project , see 9/25.]

Tue., Sep. 30, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

Aimé Césaire: Une voix pour l’histoire, une parole pour le XXIème siècle

2ème Partie: Au rendez-vous de la conquête.

(Aimé Césaire, A Voice That Goes Down Through History – Part II: Where the Edges of Conquest Meet.) English subtitles. 55 minutes. 1994.

Wed., Oct. 1, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

Revolution ’67. Closed captions. 83 minutes. 2007.

Thurs., Oct. 2, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

Berkeley in the Sixties. 118 minutes. 1990.

Mon., Oct. 6, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

At the River I Stand. 56 minutes. 1993. [About MLK assassination.]

Tue., Oct. 7, instead of film go to Daniel Ellsberg’s pre-conference keynote presentation

Wed., Oct. 8, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100.

Aimé Césaire: Une voix pour l’histoire, une parole pour le XXIème siècle

3ème Partie: La force de regarder demain.

(Aimé Césaire, A Voice That Goes Down Through History – Part III: The Strength to Face Tomorrow.) English subtitles. 52 minutes. 1994.

Thurs., Oct. 9, 7 p.m. Calhoun Hall 100. Two archival primary source films.

Black Panther. 15 minutes. 1968. Film made by Black Panthers.

and San Francisco State on Strike. 20 minutes. 1969. Film made by students.

Fri., Oct. 10, through Sunday, Oct. 12

1968: A Global Perspective-- An Interdisciplinary Conference

Threads Running Through the Film Series

Celluloid for Social Justice: The Legacy of 1968 in Documentaries

1. Literature, with Music and Visual Arts

Mon., Sep. 15: Strange Fruit [relevant to Lillian Smith's novel and play Strange Fruit and other literature, art, and music; focuses on Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol) song that Billie Holiday made famous]

Thurs., Sep. 18: The Price of the Ticket (James Baldwin's entire career)

Tues., Sep. 23: Hughes' Dream Harlem (Langston Hughes' entire career)

Mon., Sep. 22; Tue., Sep. 30; and Wed., Oct. 8: Aimé Césaire's entire career

2. Political Activism, with Music and Chants

Mon., Sep. 15: Scarred Justice [Orangeburg massacre 1968]

Tues., Sep. 16: Lumumba [Dem. Rep. of Congo prime minister; basically nonviolent, was assassinated.]

Wed., Sep. 17: February One and The Strange Demise of Jim Crow [lunch counter sit-ins, negotiation]

Wed., Sep. 24: Freedom on My Mind [voter registration in Mississippi; participation in 1964 Democratic National Convention]

Thurs., Sep. 25: Negroes with Guns [Robert F. Williams, civil rights and anti-Klan activist] and Huelga! [unionizing farmworkers]

Mon., Sep. 29: July '64 [rebellion in Rochester, New York] and Nosotros Venceremos [farmworkers]

Wed., Oct. 1: Revolution '67 [rebellion in Newark, New Jersey]

Thurs., Oct. 2: Berkeley in the Sixties [wide variety of basically nonviolent activism]

Mon., Oct. 6: At the River I Stand [supporting garbage workers' unionization strike in Memphis, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.]

Thurs., Oct. 9: San Francisco State on Strike [strike that established first ethnic studies program in U.S.]; Black Panther [made 1968 by the activists themselves]

3. Connections with Africa, the Caribbean, Turkey, and Europe, with Music and Visual Arts

Tues., Sept. 16; Thurs., Sep. 18; Mon., Sep. 22; Tues., Sep. 23; Tues., Sep. 30; Wed., Oct. 8