Race at Ground Zero: Integration in Leland, Mississippi
Burr & Burton Academy Auditorium, Manchester

Pulitzer-winning historian and filmmaker Douglas Blackmon speaks about and offers a sneak peek of his documentary film The Harvest. It looks at the failure of public school integration and its relation to our nation's current racial turmoil, as seen through the eyes of people born in 1964 in his hometown of Leland, Mississippi—the state’s first students to attend integrated classrooms from K to 12. This is a First Wednesdays program, a Vermont HumanIties Council program hosted locally by Manchester Community Library. Free program, open to the public. NOTE SPECIAL VENUE: BURR AND BURTON ACADEMY AUDITORIUM (RILEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS)

Oct 18, 2024, 5 to 7 PM

Oct 22, 2024, 10 to 11 AM

Oct 23, 2024, 10 AM to 1 PM