Freedom Riders: Behind the Scenes
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Freedom Riders Coming to Topeka
On June 26, 2011 at 3pm Freedom Riders Robert and Helen Singleton will share their unique perspective and experience at a discussion and screening of the recent American Experience documentary “Freedom Riders”. Author and photographer Eric Etheridge will also present a lecture and slide show on the 1961 Freedom Riders.
The event will take place at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site 1515 SE Monroe Street, Topeka, Kansas 66612.
Free and open to the public, but reservations are required.
To RSVP by June 24, call the Brown Foundation at (785) 235-3939
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The Local Show: Freedom Riders, Samaritan’s Shoes & a Roxy Paine update
Coming up on the next episode of The Local Show: KCPT marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides with a landmark documentary that retells their story. Monday night, May 16 at 8 p.m. on KCPT, veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson presents the Freedom Riders, the first feature length film about this courageous band of citizens.
Recently, KCPT gathered almost two hundred people at Kansas City’s Plaza library for a citizen conversation to ask where they might take a freedom ride today?
The Local Show presents an extended excerpt of the documentary as well as highlights from the recent citizen conversation.
Samaritan’s Feet is on a quest to put shoes on the feet of 10,000 impoverished children in our own backyard. What compels hundreds of volunteers from churches in rural Missouri to join together to bring new sneakers to students at Martin Luther King Elementary School in the Kansas City, Missouri School District? While they live only about an hour apart, there is a world of difference. They discovered they all shared one unique experience and a gift that was much more than shoes.
In April, Roxy Paine’s “Ferment” was installed and dedicated and we were there. We’ll give you a much more detailed look at the amazing process on the Local Show in June, but for now here’s a “condensed” version of what went down with Kansas City’s brand new “dendroid.”
For more information, visit thelocalshow.org.
