Virtual Cinema
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Available Friday, October 16 – Sunday, October 25
This historical documentary film tells the story of Robert F. Kennedy’s historic visit to the University of Mississippi in 1966 and the behind-the-scenes student activism that made it possible. Only four years after the violence surrounding James Meredith’s admittance to the university as its first African American student—and amid a controversial “Speaker Ban” imposed by the legislature and the Institutions of Higher Learning board on Mississippi’s college campuses—a small, interracial group of forward-thinking students at “Ole Miss” devised a plan to get around the Speaker Ban and host a speech by RFK.
Pre-Recorded Q&A with director Mary Blessey to follow.
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Genre
Biography, Documentary, Historical Interest, Politics, Feature Film, MFF Virtual Cinema
Runtime
51 min
Section
Documentary Feature
Release Year
2019
Director
Mary Blessey
Producer
Mary Blessey, C. Paige Gutierrez
Subject
Robert Kennedy
Country
USA