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The 16th Annual Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture
Judy Richardson, Civil Rights Historian and documentarian will deliver, "Will the Circle be Unbroken: The Relevance of the Civil Rights Movement"
Thursday, Oct 30
from
07:00 pm
to
08:30 pm
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room
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Judy Richardson
Judy Richardson is a noted Civil Rights historian and documentarian whose social justice work began in the early 1960s. She worked on several projects for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. In 1965, she became office manager for Julian Bond's successful first campaign for the Georgia House of Representatives. Richardson helped found the black bookstore Drum & Spear in Washington, D.C. in 1968. It became the largest black bookstore in the country.
During the 1970s and 80s, Richardson worked on several independent projects including directing a racism study for Howard University and participating in several protests against police brutality in New York City for the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice. During this time, Richardson also began working on film projects for Blackside Productions, including the PBS documentary series, Eyes on the Prize, which aired in 1987. Richardson later co-produced Blackside's 1994 Emmy and Peabody Award Winning documentary, Malcolm X: Make It Plain (for PBS' The American Experience).
Richardson and six women SNCC alumnae edited Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, soon to be published by the University of Illinois Press. The anthology collects the stories of more than 50 women who were active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
Currently a senior producer for Northern Light Productions in Boston, Richardson produces historical documentaries for broadcast and museums, with a focus on African- American historical events, including a one-hour documentary on the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre to air on PBS in 2009.
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This program is a part of the Stone Center’s yearlong reflection on the global significance of 1968/69
For more information, please contact:
Ursula Littlejohn
ulittlej@email.unc.edu
962-9001