Location: USC Upstate Library, Room 247 (2nd floor), 150 Gramling Drive
In commemoration of the exhibition, Justice for All: South Carolina and the American Civil Rights Movement, the USC Upstate Library invites you to attend the Justice for All lunchtime documentary film series. Films will be shown at 12 noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the month of June in Room 247 of the USC Upstate Library.
All films are free and open to everyone; seating capacity for each film is limited to 25 persons. You are welcome to bring your brown bag lunch while you view these documentaries. Can't make it to the library? Click through each of the links below to stream the titles through the Library's subscription databases.
- Thursday, June 1
Into the Fire: 1861-1896 (Part 3 of the documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross) (2013) (56 mins.)
Examines one of the most tumultuous and consequential periods in African-American history: The Civil War and the end of slavery, and Reconstruction's thrilling but brief "moment in the sun." - Tuesday, June 6
Making a Way Out of No Way: 1897-1940 (Part 4 of the documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross) (2013) (56 mins.)
Portrays the Jim Crow era, when African Americans struggled to build their own worlds within the harsh, narrow confines of segregation. - Thursday, June 8
Slavery by Another Name (2012) (90 mins.)
Challenges one of America's most basic assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how in the South a new system of involuntary servitude took its place. - Tuesday, June 13
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989) (54 mins.)
Documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African-American journalist, activist, suffragist, and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. - Thursday, June 15
The Road to Brown (1990) (57 mins.)
Tells the story of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education as the culmination of a legal assault on segregation that launched the Civil Rights Movement. - Tuesday, June 20
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley (1965) (56 mins.)
Presents a debate between African-American author James Baldwin and American political theorist William F. Buckley on the theme, "Has the American dream been achieved at the expense of the American Negro?"
- Thursday, June 22
Soundtrack for a Revolution (2010) (82 mins.)
The story of the American Civil Rights Movement through its music, the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in meetings, and more, as they fought for justice and equality. - Tuesday, June 27
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2002) (85 mins.)
Rustin was at most of the important events of the Civil Rights Movement--but always in the background. This documentary intermingles the personal and the political to present an understanding of both progressive movements and gay life in 20th-century America. - Thursday, June 29
An Unlikely Friendship (2002) (45 mins.)
Documents the surprising friendship that emerged between an embittered Ku Klux Klan leader and an outspoken Black woman activist who were appointed to co-chair a community committee to resolve problems arising from court-ordered school desegregation in 1970s North Carolina.
The USC Upstate Library is honored to host a reception, author talk, and book-signing with Mrs. Sarah Collins Rudolph, a survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, which occurred in Birmingham, Alabama, in September 1963. This terrorist bombing by white supremacists caused the death of four girls and the injury of nearly two dozen more individuals. This horrific event marked a turning point in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by the U.S. Congress.
As summertime is an ideal time for vacations, travel serves as the theme of the latest USC Upstate Library book and materials display.