Picture This! Double-Features - Freedom Riders

Picture This goes Double-Feature! With the peak of the summer heat, come enjoy free film double features on select Mondays in August (08/15, 08/22, and 08/29) in one of San Diego's official Cool Zones. The first screening will start at 3:30 and the second screening will start at 6:30.

Synopsis

The saga of the Freedom Rides is an empowering story of courage and commitment. In 1961, more than four hundred Americans partici­pated in a dangerous experiment designed to help desegregate the South.

SDPL in partnership with SDAAMFA

Central Library will screen the film Freedom Riders in conjunction with the June 17 – September 7 The Buses Are Coming exhibit at the Quartyard presented by the San Diego African American Museum of Fine Arts. The screening will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, the powerful, harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. The program will feature a Q&A with Civil Rights Movement leader Harold K. Brown following the screening, facilitated by SDAAMFA Executive Director Gaidi Finnie.

Program Partners

Civil rights leader Harold K. Brown graduated from San Diego State University in 1959 and became the first African American to hold administrative rank at the university. He founded chapters of the Congress for Racial Equality and was arrested repeatedly for protesting against racial discrimination. In 2011, SDSU inaugurated the "Harold K. Brown Civil Rights and African American Experience Collection", a historical collection consisting of thousands of photographs, documents and oral accounts of the civil rights movement in San Diego.

The San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art presents and preserves the art of African Americans globally and broadens the knowledge and understanding of the visual arts in Southern California generally and San Diego specifically by collecting, preserving and displaying works of art by and about African Americans. SDAAMFA creates and hosts quality traveling exhibitions, and collects and preserves fine art and by developing and helping to foster an appreciation of art through meaningful public programs, symposia, and other educational programs.

Picture This! returns to the Central Library's Neil Morgan Auditorium screening free films every Monday at 6:30 pm. Stay up-to-date on the monthly lineup of films here in the SDPL Events Calendar.