Sunday, February 11, 2024 6pm
About this Event
701 Western College Dr., Oxford, OH 45056
https://25livepub.collegenet.com/calendars/cas-departments-mjf?eventid=941048882The five-night film festival was created to share the story of the Civil Rights Movement and the connection to the Western College for Women, which is now part of Miami’s Western campus.
In what has become known as Freedom Summer, about 800 volunteers — many of them college students — trained in Oxford before traveling to the South to register Black voters and set up freedom schools and community centers in Mississippi and elsewhere.
One film will be screened each night, with an introduction and Q-and-A period to follow.
The 1988 film is loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of three Freedom Summer activists — Michael Schwerner, 24, James Chaney, 21, and Andrew Goodman, 20 — who were murdered in Mississippi by the Ku Klux Klan after training in Oxford.
Haygood, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, was honored with the Freedom Summer of ’64 Award on Nov. 14 during an event at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati. He has been the Boadway Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence in Miami’s Department of Media, Journalism, and Film since 2014-2015.
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