Movies That Matter is a new film series curated and presented in a collaborative partnership between Caltech Public Programming, the Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity, and the student-led Caltech Y. The films in this series address current concerns in various realms of science as well as important matters of social justice. Movies That Matter launches with a virtual screening of the 2021 award-winning documentary “100 Years From Mississippi” directed by Tarabu Betserai Kirkland on Friday, February 11, at 7:30 p.m.
Last week commemorated the centennial of the race massacre in Tulsa, Okla., where a white mob attacked homes and businesses in the predominantly African American area known as Black Wall Street. Though a dark chapter in the American narrative, it was hardly an aberration.
In 1919, America was embroiled in an unprecedented wave of racial terrorism that writer James Weldon Johnson coined as âRed Summer.â White mobs indiscriminately attacked African Americans across the nation, resulting in death and the annihilation of African American property and businesses that left thousands homeless.
African American post-World War I expectations of equality fueled white social fears. Moreover, industrialists routinely used Blacks as strikebreaking pawns to threaten white workers who were fighting for better working conditions, further stoking racial resentment.
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taking your phone calls october 2nd. get the complete weekend schedule at booktv.org. well, up next on booktv, cameron mcwhirter recounts the violence against african-americans in 1919, a precursor to the civil rights movement ott 1950s and 30s. 1950 and 60s. african-american soldiers returned to the u.s. only to be met by resistance leading to deadly riots across the country. this is about an hour. [applause] thank you for coming. thanks very much for coming out here today. i want to start with a poem, um, and let me set the stage for it. there was a young black man named claude mckay, he was a railroad porter in 1919, like a lot of young black men he worked on the railroad. and he was terrified because every time he and his friends traveled from town to town, they didn t know if they were going to be arriving in a race riot. so they started carrying guns, and when they would go to a location, they would run to their hotels with their involves just revolvers just