The Wilton Friends of the Library and the Wilton Town Hall Theatre are pleased to present two powerful Civil Rights films as part of the Sunday Documentary Film Series on Sunday, Oct. 20 at 4:30 pm at the Wilton Town Hall Theater on Main Street in Wilton.
Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted.
Evanston’s Living History is the story of people paying a big price for rights and liberties that many of us take for granted; a community whose indomitable spirit influenced the conscience of a nation. It is the struggle for justice that extends back to the town of Abbeville, South Carolina and the horrific lynching of one of its prominent citizens, Anthony Crawford. It is the story of Crawford’s descendants working alongside the families of Emmett Till, Michael Schwerener, James Earl Chaney, and Andrew Goodman to gain passage of United States Senate Resolution 39, which apologized for the failure of the Senate to enact anti-lynching legislation.
Alice’s Ordinary People is a new documentary about Alice Tregay – a woman who refused to stand still for injustice and brought others together to change what was. Her remarkable story spans the historic period from the marches of Dr. King to the election of Barack Obama. And her great contribution in the field of politics is the thread which connects the two.
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