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Community Conversation: Civil Rights in KC

Join KCPT and the Kansas City Public library for a special community conversation, Monday, April 25, 2011

Monday, April 25, 2011
Reception 6pm | Program 6:30pm
Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library

Join KCPT and the Kansas City Public library for a special community conversation about the civil rights movement in Kansas City. A panel moderated by Nick Haines will discuss civil rights activism past and present as well as what role individuals and groups have to play in addressing current civil rights issues.

Selected clips from Freedom Riders — a new documentary describing the experiences of 400 black and white Americans that rode buses into the deep South in defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1961—sets the stage for the community conversation.

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The event complements the Freedom Riders exhibit on display in the Central Library.

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American Experience “Freedom Riders”

Premieres Monday, May 16, 8pm

In 1961, segregation seemed to have an overwhelming grip on American society. Many states violently enforced the policy, while the federal government, under the Kennedy administration, remained indifferent, preoccupied with matters abroad. That is, until an integrated band of college students — many of whom were the first in their families to attend a university — decided, en masse, to risk everything and buy a ticket on a Greyhound bus bound for the Deep South. They called themselves the Freedom Riders, and they managed to bring the president and the entire American public face to face with the challenge of correcting civil-rights inequities that plagued the nation.

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First Freedom Riders Screening

The Kansas City Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity kicks off Freedom Riders community outreach.

The Kansas City chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity helped kick-off KCPT’sFreedom Riders outreach events on March 13, 2011 with a screening for local high school students and their parents. The group watched a fifteen minute preview of the upcoming American Experience documentary before students left for a bus tour of historically black universities. During the trip, the students will view and discuss a longer segment of the documentary.

To find out how your group or organization can host a screening of Freedom Riders, please email lfoat@kcpt.org.

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Freedom Riders Screening Kits

Host a Freedom Riders screening with your organization or school!

Host a Freedom Riders screening with your organization or school! Screening kits include:

  • Screening copy of the documentary (15 or 60 minute versions)
  • Postcards with KCPT tune-in information
  • A door prize
  • Freedom Riders poster to display at your event
  • Customizable E-invites to send to your guests

To find out how your group or organization can host a screening of Freedom Riders, please email lfoat@kcpt.org.

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