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Walter
J. Brown Media Archives
&
Peabody Awards Collection
Screenings
all
events are free and open to the public
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Black History Month 2004
- screenings at a glance -
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| Date
and Time |
Location |
Program |
Tuesday,
February 3,
7:00 p.m. |
Room 150,
Student Learning Center |
"Beyond
Tara: The Extraordinary Life Of Hattie McDaniel" |
Tuesday,
February 10,
7:00 p.m. |
Room 150,
Student Learning Center |
"Color Adjustment"
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Tuesday,
February 17,
7:00 p.m. |
Room 150,
Student Learning Center |
"School:
The Story Of American Public Education. No. 103, A Struggle For Educational
Equality: 1950-1980" |
Tuesday,
February 24,
7:00 p.m. |
Room 150,
Student Learning Center |
"Keïta!
The Heritage Of the Griot" |
Wednesday,
February 25,
noon |
Adinkra Hall
(407 Memorial Hall) |
"Seeds Of
Perfection" |
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"Beyond
Tara: The Extraordinary Life Of Hattie McDaniel"
Originally broadcast on American
Movie Classics on August 7, 2001. 45 minutes.
Peabody entry number 2001222 DCT.
Hattie McDaniel is probably best known as the first African-American to
win an Academy Award for her portrayal as "Mammy" in 1939's
"Gone with the Wind." But the role that became the pinnacle
of her career, also proved to be its undoing. Although she was the most
visible black woman in Hollywood at the time, her race meant that she
faced continued difficulty in obtaining new roles. McDaniel's career epitomizes
the struggles faced by many African-American actors, and shows the inroads
that were created by persevering. "Beyond Tara" chronicles the
extraordinary life of this unique woman. |
Hattie
McDaniel as "Mammy" in "Gone with the Wind" from Reel
Classics.
Dr.
Freda Scott Giles, Assistant Professor of Theatre and a member of the Institute
for African American Studies, will lead a discussion following the screening.
Dr.
Giles has published articles focusing on various elements of African-American
theatre and drama, with an emphasis on the Harlem Renaissance period, and has
worked in the professional theatre as an actor and director.
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"Color
Adjustment"
Originally broadcast on PBS
on June 15, 1992. 88 minutes.
Peabody entry number 92023 DCT.
This program examines the racial myths, stereotyping, and negative portrayal
of blacks on American television from 1948-1988. The negative portrayal
of blacks gave white audiences a false impression of what life was like
in black America, an impression that wasn't changed until news cameras
brought the violence and struggle for civil rights into the American living
room. Shows then began to depict blacks in a more realistic setting, illustrating
that not all Americans were living the American dream. The program includes
clips from many shows on television during those forty years, including
the Nat King Cole Show; East Side, West Side; Roots; All in the Family;
I Spy; and Good Times. The program also contains footage of speeches by
Martin Luther King, Jr., President Reagan, and Newton Minow. |
Robert Culp & Bill Cosby
from I Spy, one of the programs featured in Color Adjustment, from the
Fifties Web.
Dr.
Dwight Brooks, Associate Professor in the Telecommunications Department of the
Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, will lead a discussion
following this screening.
Dr. Brooks' areas of
research interest include depictions of race and gender in the media.
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"School:
The Story Of American Public Education. No. 103, A Struggle For Educational
Equality: 1950-1980"
Originally broadcast on PBS
on September 4, 2001. 55 minutes.
Peabody entry number 2001028 EDT 3 of 4.
In the 1950s, America's public schools were bursting with the promise
of a new generation of post-war students, many of whom would graduate
and go on to college. But that promise did not embrace everyone. This
documentary covers the tempestuous era when public schools became a major
battleground in the fight for equality for minorities and women. Interviews
with Linda Brown, the schoolgirl at the center of the 1954 Supreme Court
battle over integration, students, teachers, historians, and other equal
rights pioneers bring the era and the struggle to vivid life.
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Post-integration
school, Ft. Myer, Virginia. Photo from PBS School
Web site.
Dr. Robert A.
Pratt, Professor of History, will lead a discussion following this screening.
Dr. Pratt teaches 20th
century U.S. history, and specializes in African-American and Southern history,
with an emphasis on school desegregation, the civil rights movement, and issues
relating to race and ethnicity. He is the author of The Color of Their Skin:
Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89 (Virginia, 1992) and We
Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia (University
of Georgia Press, 2002). Dr. Pratt received a "Fulfilling the Dream"
award in January 2004 in recognition of his contributions to the community.
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"Keïta!
The Heritage Of the Griot"
Directed by Dani Kouyaté. 94 minutes.
In French and Jula with English subtitles
Available in the UGA Libraries Media Department.
This film from Burkina Faso is a timeless tale of generational change and
of the tension between tradition and progress. The story is based on the
Sundjata epic, an important work of African oral literature. When a djéliba,
a master griot or bard, arrives mysteriously at the home of Mabo Keïta
to teach him "the meaning of his name," the boy and griot are
inevitably brought into conflict with his Westernized mother and schoolteacher,
who have rejected African tradition. The griot reveals to Mabo the story
of his distant ancestor, Sundjata Keïta, the 13th century founder of
the great Malian trading empire. At the film's conclusion, history and legend,
event and destiny have been brought into alignment. |
Still
photo from Keïta!
from California Newsreel
Web site.
Ms.
Meg Delong, graduate student in the Comparative Literature Department, will
lead a discussion following this screening.
Ms. Delong's research has specialized in the film tradition of West Africa.
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"The
Seeds Of Perfection"
Originally broadcast
in 1981 on WCVB. 25 minutes.
Peabody entry number
81035 EDT.
This television
program, hosted by Maya Angelou, uses archival photographs and interviews
with historians to look at the struggles and barriers blacks have had
to overcome to achieve equality in education in the United States. The
program examines the period from when blacks were caught and shipped as
slaves from Africa up through the beginnings of the civil rights movement
of the 1960's. Included is a discussion on why slave masters kept their
slaves uneducated, and why, after the slaves were freed, whites enacted
segregation laws keeping blacks out of white schools. Also looked at were
the opposing views on education of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du
Bois. Washington believed blacks should receive vocational education,
giving them a better chance for employment. Du Bois believed blacks should
receive a classical education, as did whites. The program ends with a
discussion of the Supreme Court case of Brown vs. the Board of Education,
which found that separate schools were not equal, leading to the desegregation
of schools throughout the United States.
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Images
from the Andrew
Avery Home Movie Collection in the Walter J. Brown Media Archives.
Ms.
Mary Miller, Peabody Awards Collection Cataloger, will lead a discussion following
this screening.
Ms. Miller is a graduate student in the Department of Instructional Technology.
Media Archives is pleased
to sponsor a Black History Month exhibit in the lobby of UGA's Main Library
through February 2004. Please visit us in the Ilah
Dunlap Little Memorial Library or take a virtual
tour of the exhibit.
Visit the University
of Georgia's Black History Month
2004 calendar of events.
Other
African-American history programs were screened during UGA's 2003
Black History Month celebrations.
Programs
screened by Media Archives are also available for viewing in the
University of Georgia Libraries Media Department.
For more information,
contact the University of Georgia Libraries Media Department at 583-0212
or Mary Miller, mlmiller@uga.edu
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