“The Movement” Documentary Screening
Time: November 14, 2023
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A dozen voices turned into a thunderous shout for freedom in Danville, Virginia, culminating in a vicious attack by police that defined the long, hot summer of 1963.
THE MOVEMENT tells the courageous story of the leaders and hundreds of protestors that took to streets, risking their lives in a coordinated effort to end segregation in the Last Capital of the Confederacy.
From the early days of the struggle to the historic March on Washington and featuring in-depth interviews with demonstrators, the documentary traces the Civil Rights struggle that led to Bloody Monday, when armed police officers, firefighters and deputized garbage collectors turned high-powered hoses and batons on protestors kneeling in prayer.
The carnage resulted in dozens of injuries and sent a shockwave through the nation, leading Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights icon, to visit the small city four times in a span of nine months, declaring Danville Police Department one of the most brutal forces in the south.
With first-person accounts of the marches and the mayhem that followed,
THE MOVEMENT is the inspiring true story of a people oppressed, their relentless pursuit of freedom and the healing that happened along the way.
Runtime: 75 minutes