Film Screening

in conjunction with "Inaugurate the Revolution"

12:30 PM. Friday, January 20, 2017

Monroe County Public Library Auditorium

“At the River I Stand” 58 minutes with discussion Reclaiming the Radical MLK to follow.

At the River I Stand “skillfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [It] brings into sharp relief issues that have only become more urgent in the intervening years: the connection between economic and civil rights, debates over strategies for change, the demand for full inclusion of African Americans in American life and the fight for dignity for public employees and all working people.” Join us for a screening of the documentary and a following up question-and-answer session with Dr. Alex Lichtenstein, Professor of History at Indiana University.