Pulitzer-winning historian and filmmaker Douglas Blackmon will speak about and offer a sneak peek of his documentary film The Harvest in a talk at Manchester's Burr and Burton Academy auditorium, the Riley Center for the Arts, on Tuesday, April 24 at 7:00 pm. His talk, "Race at Ground Zero: Integration in Leland, Mississippi," is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and was rescheduled from February.

The Harvest 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 Blackmon's hometown of Leland, Mississippi—the state's first students to attend integrated classrooms from K to 12. Blackmon will share clips from his film and discuss the story behind it.

Talks in Manchester are hosted by Manchester Community Library and are free and open to the public.

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