Film
The Streets of Greenwood + Lay My Burden Down
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
- 7PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 78 minutes
RATED: NR
GENERAL ADMISSION: $13
MEMBERS: $8
STUDENTS/SENIORS:
$9 (29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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August 2013
Thursday August 15, 2013
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Directed by Jack Willis
Featuring a performance by a young Bob Dylan, The Streets
of Greenwood is one of the most iconic documentaries of its
era, capturing the heroic efforts and boundless energy of the
Freedom Riders as they rallied to register voters in Greenwood,
Mississippi. A few years later, director Willis returned to shoot
Lay My Burden Down, a documentary about the first election
after the passage of the Voting Rights Act in rural sharecropping
communities. Willis asserts what the Supreme Court denied: that it
isn’t enough to declare rights, they must be protected.
The Streets of Greenwood (1963)
Directed by Jack Willis, Fred Wardenburg, and John Reavis
RUN TIME: 20 min
FORMAT: Digibeta
Lay My Burden Down (1966)
Directed by Jack Willis
RUN TIME: 58 min
FORMAT: 16mm
RUN TIME: 58 min
FORMAT: 16mm