Special Fairfield Screening at Friday's Art Walk! Iowans Return to Freedom Summer
Friday, February 6 . 7:30 pm Sondheim Center, Fairfield Arts & Convention Center See this moving, powerful documentary recounting the experiences of six Iowans who participated in the Mississippi Summer Project before it airs on Iowa Public Television later this month. Filmmaker and Freedom Summer volunteer Patti Miller weaves first hand accounts with striking footage by Richard Beymer and photographs by Herb Randall, to provide a glimpse into the experiences and motivations of white Iowa students who traveled to the deep South to help black Mississippians register to vote fifty years ago. A question and answer session with Miller and others involved in the film follows the premiere. And Don't Miss: 6:00 pm - Excerpt from Stanley Nelson's Freedom Summer, a PBS American Experience Film 7:00 pm - A Regular Bouquet, a film by Richard Beymer also about Freedom Summer 7:30 pm - Patti Miller's Iowans Return to Freedom Summer Visit us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/IowansReturnToFreedomSummerKHAF> Iowans Return to Freedom Summer is a project of the Keeping History Alive Foundation, a 501c3 dedicated to educating students about the Civil Rights Movement so they may learn from it's history and lead our country into a more enlightened future. For more information: www.iowansreturntofreedomsummer.com <http://iowansreturntofreedomsummer.com>
