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Civil Rights on film

The U.S. Civil Rights Movement gen ed theme presents a film festival on January 25 in the Kirkhof Center's Grand River Room.

The Civil Rights Movement Film Festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and features the following films:

  • 10 a.m.: Martin Luther King, Jr. documentary
  • Noon: The Road to Brown v. Board of Education, followed by a discussion of the film and current implications of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision at 1 p.m.
  • 2 p.m.: Freedom on My Mind, followed at 4:30 p.m. by a discussion of the film and the interracial cadre of freedom workers who changed Mississippi.

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