Saturday, May 19, 2007
2:30pm

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum &
The Chicago Freedom School present:

Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders-  a powerful documentary about a missing chapter in our nation's history-- the story of the courageous women who lead the civil rights movement.

2:30 to 3:30 p.m- film screening

3:45-4:45- Presentation by Dr. Barbara Ransby- Ella Baker, SNCC and Young Women's Leadership During the CIvil Rights Movement

This event is FREE

Reservations Recommended.
Please email csfs_youth@yahoo.com for reservations. 

Jane Addams
Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall
800 South Halsted

This event is ADA accessible. If you have a disability and need additional accommodations to attend this event, please inform us at the time of reservation.

Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders

A film by Joan Sadoff , Dr. Robert Sadoff and Laura J. Lipson

2002, 61 minutes, Color/BW, DVD

In 1965, when three women walked into the US House of Representatives in Washington D.C., they had come a very long way. Neither lawyers nor politicians, they were ordinary women from Mississippi and descendants of African slaves. They had come to their country's capitol seeking civil rights, the first black women to be allowed in the senate chambers in nearly 100 years. A missing chapter in our nation's record of the Civil Rights movement, this powerful documentary reveals the movement in Mississippi in the 1950's and 60's from the point of view of the courageous women who lived it – and emerged as its grassroots leaders. Their living testimony offers a window into a unique moment when the founders' promise of freedom and justice passed from rhetoric to reality for all Americans. Through moving interviews and powerful archival footage, STANDING ON MY SISTERS' SHOULDERS weaves a story of commitment, passion and perseverance and tells the story of the women fought for change in Mississippi and altered the course of American history forever.