Jim Crow to Barack Obama, a documentary film by Denise Ward-Brown, an Associate Professor of Art at Washington University, will be shown tonight at the Tivoli Theatre.
The film will be shown at 7 p.m. at the Tivoli and tickets are $12.
According to the film's web site, the film will ask the question: “How have issues of race and racism changed in the United States over the last one hundred years?”
The film will be shown at 7 p.m. at the Tivoli and tickets are $12.
According to the film's web site, the film will ask the question: “How have issues of race and racism changed in the United States over the last one hundred years?”
The documentary features inter-generational conversations between African American elders who are at least 75-years-old having grown up in the now extinct era of Jim Crow and youth aged 16-30.
Funding for the film come from:
- CALOP University Cityi,
- Kresge Arts in St. Louis a partnership of the Kresge Foundation,
- Arts & Education Council,
- Greater Saint Louis Community Foundation
- Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis.
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