Civil Rights, Freedom Summer and a Search for the Blues

July 23, 2016

10:00 am

12:30 pm

Landmark's E Street Cinema

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It’s 1964, and the search for two forgotten blues singers perilously coincides with the Freedom Summer voter registration campaign in Mississippi, at the height of the Civil Rights movement.

Film: Two Trains Runnin’, directed by Sam Pollard (appearing in person), narrated by Common, and featuring the music of Gary Clark Jr.

Moderator: Ben Hedin, author, film producer with Panelists: Sam Pollard, director, Courtland Cox, founding member of SNCC, Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Judy Richardson, activist, filmaker

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