'Eyes On The Prize' Filmmaker To Speak At Ithaca College
http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=2914
03/29/2010
ITHACA, NY н Filmmaker and historian Judy Richardson will give two
free public presentations at Ithaca College on Thursday, April 8. At
4 p.m. in Textor 101 she will screen and answers questions about her
newest film, "Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968." At 7
p.m. in Textor 102 she will deliver the annual Marjorie Fortunoff
Mayrock Lecture, "From 'Eyes on the Prize' to 'Scarred Justice':
Interpreting the Civil Rights Movement through Film."
Richardson brings a longtime involvement with social justice issues
to her filmmaking, beginning with her work with the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the South during the
"Freedom Summer" of 1964. In 1968 she and a number of former SNCC
workers organized Drum & Spear Bookstore in Washington, D.C., which
soon became the largest African-American bookstore in the country. In
the 1970s she was involved in several independent projects, including
directing a study of racism in children's books for the Howard
University School of Education.
In 1979 Richardson began working with Henry Hampton/Blackside
Productions, conducting research and pre-interviews on an early
version of what became "Eyes on the Prize," the six-part PBS series
on the history of the Civil Rights Movement. She served as associate
producer for the subsequent eight-hour series "Eyes on the Prize II"
and coproduced Blackside's 1994 Emmy and Peabody Awardннwinning
documentary "Malcolm X: Make It Plain."
Currently a senior producer for Northern Light Productions,
Richardson makes documentaries for broadcast and museums, with a
focus on African-American historical events. "Scarred Justice," which
aired on PBS in February, tells the little-known story of three black
students who were killed by police during a 1968 demonstration at
South Carolina State College in Orangeburg. In addition to her film
work, she has authored numerous academic articles and lectures
nationally about the Civil Rights Movement н its history, values and
relevance to issues we face today.
Richardson's talk is sponsored by the Marjorie Fortunoff Mayrock
Lecture Series in History, which is funded by Elliot Mayrock '73 in
memory of his mother.
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