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Home of the Brave
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Free. Free tickets can be obtained through Eventbrite - search Home of the Brave (Descendants Talk Mini-Festival)Location:
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Film will be screened first (75 minutes) followed by a conversation with a special guest
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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site - in partnership with Washitaw Foothills Youth Media Arts & Literacy Collective, Shelter-In-Place Virtual Film Series, Arkansas PBS and the Arkansas Peace and Justice Memorial Movement - announces a free online screening of the film “Home of the Brave” and post-film talk-back on Sunday, August 30, 2020. This film will be shown online at 6:00 p.m.; free tickets can be obtained via Eventbrite (search Home of the Brave (Descendants Talk Mini-Festival).
A powerful and thought-provoking story, “Home of the Brave” examines the life of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman to be killed during the Civil Rights Movement. Liuzzo was deeply affected by the events of Bloody Sunday (March 1965) where peaceful protestors in Selma were savagely beaten by Alabama state troopers. Answering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for help, Liuzzo left her home and family in Detroit and headed to Alabama to assist the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with its efforts to register African American voters. While shuttling demonstrators between Selma and Montgomery, Liuzzo was shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Since her death, Viola’s children have taken up their mother’s cause - civil rights – and continued her unfinished work. Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe has interviewed those who were with their mother in her final days in order to continue Viola’s legacy and to feel closer to her. Mary is a leader in Civil and Human Rights education and awareness and annually joins in the commemorations of Bloody Sunday in Selma. Following the screening, a discussion will be held on the film’s themes and storylines with Mary.
Links to the film screening site and accompanying discussion site will be provided after successful registration. For more information about the program, please call (501) 374-1957 or email david_kilton@nps.gov.
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site is located at 2120 W. Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive, diagonally across the street from Central High School. The visitor center is open daily from 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. with free admission. Please check the park website – nps.gov/chsc – for access restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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