Monday, January 18, 2015
12:30- 2 p.m.
Mitten Hall
Celebrate Martin Luther King Day Via Moving Civil Rights Documentary
“Standing on My Sisters’ Shoulders.”
Please join Temple Alumna, Joan Sadoff, EDU ’71, SSW '79, for an exclusive screening of her award-winning civil rights documentary sharing the courageous fight of three women whose actions altered the course of American history.
In 1965, when three ordinary women from Mississippi, descendants of African slaves, walked into the US House of Representatives in Washington D.C., they had come a very long way. They had come to their country’s capital seeking civil rights, the first black women to be allowed in the senate chambers in 100 years. This powerful documentary reveals the movement in Mississippi in the 1950’s and 60’s from the point of view of the courageous women who lived it – and emerged as its grassroots leaders. Their living testimony offers a window into a unique moment when the founders’ promise of freedom and justice passed from rhetoric to reality for all Americans and tells the story of the women who fought for change in Mississippi and altered the course of American history.
Light Refreshments
Complimentary Parking: 15th Street Lot, enter from Norris Street
Contact
Christine Brady
215.204.4313