Project Voice Productions, with support from Free Minds, Free People, announces the community premiere showing of the documentary
Voices of Baltimore: Life under Segregation
When: Saturday, July 8th, 8:30-10:00 pm
Where: Loyola University, Knott Hall, Auditorium, B01
(Event is FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC)
This full length film captures and preserves the rich oral histories of seven prominent African Americans who grew up in the Mason/Dixon border area of Baltimore, and who lived through the era of legal segregation. The narratives document the relevant lives of these individuals who attended segregated schools and/or desegregation before and following the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v Board of Education ruling.
It asks the question, “Where have we been and where are we going?”
The film showing will be followed by a panel discussion with some of the film participants including:
Dr. Patricia Welch: Was part of the first desegregated class at Eastern High School and is the Dean of Education at Morgan State University
Dr. Walter Arthur Gill: One of the first African Americans to graduate from Baltimore City College High School in 1955
Francis Gill: Frances was the last group of students to attend Coppin Normal Teachers College when it was located on Mount Street
Treopia Green Washington: Director of Special Initiatives for the College of Education at Bowie State University and sister of Ernest Green of the Little Rock Nine.