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Three Civil Rights Programs to be presented by The Litchfield Historical Society, The Torrington Historical Society and League of Women Voters of Litchfield County

1/13/2014

 
A series of three civil rights programs based on the Created Equal Film Series will be presented during January, February and March of 2014 in Litchfield and Torrington.   

Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities that uses powerful documentary films to encourage community discussion of America’s civil rights history. 
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Each program will focus on one of three films in the Created Equal series and will include a viewing of selected film clips and a scholar led discussion of the film.  The three documentary films in the series are Slavery by Another Name, The Loving Story

And  Freedom Riders. The full length versions of these films are available for viewing through the Litchfield Historical Society website.

The first program will be presented on Thursday  January 16, 2014  at 7pm at the Litchfield Historical Society. Stephen McGrath, a history professor at Central CT State University will show clips from the film Slavery by Another Name and lead a discussion on the topic. 

Slavery by Another Name explores the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The film spans eight decades and looks into the lives of those who were held in forced labor following the Civil War. The film includes historic photographs, reenactments and interviews with descendants of the victims and perpetrators of this new slavery. 

The film series continues on February 20th at the Torrington Historical Society when Tom Hogan will discuss the film, The Loving Story, which examines the groundbreaking U.S. Supreme Court decision on interracial marriages.  

The series wraps up on March 20th at the Litchfield Historical Society with the film, Freedom Riders

All program are free and open to the public. To register for any of these programs please call the Litchfield Historical Society at 860-567-4501 or email registration@litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org. 

The Create Equal series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of its Bridging Cultures initiative, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.   

For more information contact Kate Baldwin Meador at the Litchfield Historical Society 
education@litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org or visit their website www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/tours/createdequal.php 


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