3:00 - 5:00
Jurnee Smollett stars as 11-year-old Sheyann Webb in this dramatization of two young black schoolgirls' recollections of a violent civil rights event in 1965 Alabama, based on Sheyann Webb and Rachel West Nelson’s memoir Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days (1980). Also starring Yolanda King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A Disney TV production directed by Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, The Glass Shield).
"Give the Mouse House credit... chilling, educational and gracefully wrought..." — Variety
TV-PG, 120 min., 1999. Closed captions (CC) in English.
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More Than a Month: Black Interest
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More Than a Month recognizes important events in Black history, honors community and national leaders and fosters steps towards collective change. Programming features authors, poets and craft classes.