Civil rights movement activist to speak [Judy Richardson]

Civil rights movement activist to speak Oct. 30

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2008-10-24

Filmmaker Judy Richardson, an activist with the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil rights movement, will
speak on Oct. 30 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The free public talk will be at 7 p.m. in the theater of UNC's Sonja
Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History on South Road.
During the program, the center will unveil a new commemorative quilt
that will be on permanent display in the center.

(Media-Newswire.com) - Filmmaker Judy Richardson, an activist with
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) during the
civil rights movement, will speak on Oct. 30 at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The free public talk will be at 7 p.m. in the theater of UNC's Sonja
Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History on South Road.
During the program, the center will unveil a new commemorative quilt
that will be on permanent display in the center.

Richardson's talk will be the 16th annual Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial
Lecture honoring the center's namesake, the late UNC faculty member
Sonja Haynes Stone.

She advocated for the center, directed the curriculum in African and
Afro-American studies and was an adviser to the Black Student
Movement in the late 1970s. Each year, the lecture is given by a
black woman whose work, scholarship and service epitomize the spirit of Stone.
The center commissioned creation of the quilt, "Follow the Path, Seek
the Dream," by UNC associate professor of history Heather Williams.
The quilt, 12 feet wide and 14 feet long, recognizes prominent blacks
of UNC and of the Stone Center.

Richardson, a senior producer with Northern Light Productions in
Boston, will discuss "Will the Circle be Unbroken: The Relevance of
the Civil Rights Movement." The talk will be part of the center's
reflection on the global significance of 1968-69.

Richardson produces documentaries about blacks for TV and museums.
She was senior associate producer and researcher for "Eyes on the
Prize," a PBS television series first aired in 1987. The series
traces the civil rights movement from the Montgomery bus boycott in
1954 to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Richardson also produced "Malcolm X: Make It Plain," first aired on
PBS in 1994. She made the two-hour History Channel documentary
"Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters" and helped found the now-defunct
black bookstore Drum & Spear in Washington, D.C. in 1968.

Six women SNCC alumnae including Richardson 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.

Previous Stone Memorial lecturers have included Angela Davis,
Congresswoman Eva Clayton, Kathleen Cleaver, Sonia Sanchez, Atallah
Shabazz and Alfre Woodard.

For more information on Richardson, visit
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/
and search by her name. For more information on the Oct. 30 program,
contact the center at ( 919 ) 962-9001 or visit
http://www.unc.edu/depts/stonecenter.

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