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8/27/20: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: “TRANSSEXUALS” screening and discussion
The documentary TRANSSEXUALS features a look at the transgender community in New York in 1971.
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8/14/20: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Laurie Little
Laurie Little is a Chicago-based filmmaker, artist, and educator.
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7/30/20: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Skip Blumberg
Skip Blumberg is an activist and video artist whose work has been shown widely on TV, the web, media art centers, and museums.
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[’63 Boycott raw: Timuel Black interview]
Camera original footage shot for the documentary ’63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films. ’63 Boycott is a thirty-minute documentary and web project highlighting the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott (also known as Freedom Day). One of the largest Civil Rights demonstrations in the city’s history, on October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups, local activists, and 250,000 students staged a mass boycott and demonstration against the Chicago Board of Education to protest racial segregation and inadequate resources for Black students. This interview features Timuel Black, a long-time Civil Rights activist, educator, and historian of African-American history. In the 1960s Black served as an adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. and led the Chicago contingent to the 1963 March on Washington.
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7/23/20: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Tom Weinberg
Tom Weinberg is a pioneering TV and nonfiction producer who has worked in video for more than 50 years.
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7/16/20: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Eleanor Boyer
Eleanor Boyer is a Chicago-based videomaker who has worked in video activism since the 1970s, beginning with her work on the Women’s Video Project at the Loop YWCA.
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’63 Boycott raw: Ralph Davis Interview
Camera original footage shot for the documentary ’63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films. ’63 Boycott is a thirty-minute documentary and web project highlighting the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott (also known as Freedom Day). One of the largest Civil Rights demonstrations in the city’s history, on October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups, local activists, and 250,000 students staged a mass boycott and demonstration against the Chicago Board of Education to protest racial segregation and inadequate resources for Black students. This interview features Ralph Davis, a student who was interviewed in the original film shot by Gordon Quinn during the 1963 boycott.