Beyond the Classroom presents "Before the Memories Fade: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement"

Beyond the Classroom Living & Learning Program

Critical Conversations on Civic Issues Series

presents the inspiring, award-winning documentary,

“Before the Memories Fade:

Voices from the Civil Rights Movement”

Before the Memories Fade: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement is a one-of-a kind film, revealing emotionally powerful and gripping stories from the foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement. This film takes a fresh approach to evoking that tumultuous chapter of American history. That history is brought back to vivid life through original interviews with the unsung foot soldiers—the students, ordinary citizens, community organizers, musicians, and journalists—who formed the backbone of the movement. The film features interviews with an extraordinarily wide variety of movement pioneers. These include many prominent leaders such as Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Dr. Dorothy Height, Dave Dennis, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, former Mayor Marion Barry, and Rev. Walter Fauntroy. But those voices are rounded and deepened by the voices of the unsung heroes of movement that are featured in this film. As the Civil Right Movement passes its fifty-year mark, the original interviews in this film are likely to be among the last with many of the people who made the movement a success and forged a new moral center for our nation.

·         "This story has been told 100 different ways, but you found a new way to tell it. This was just wonderful! Wonderful! You found a way to capture who we were."  -- Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton