On Oct 5 from 4-6:30 pm, the Schmid Law Library will host Community Justice Week Movie Night in the Reading Room. Premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Freedom Summer "combines archival footage and photos with contemporary interviews to recall the pivotal 10-week period in 1964 when hundreds of [student] activists worked together to register African-American voters in violently segregationist Mississippi" (Variety, February 1, 2014).
This documentary film will be introduced by Nebraska State Senator Adam Morfeld (University of Nebraska College of Law Class of 2012), founder of Nebraskans for Civic Reform (NCR), a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to strengthened civic education and community engagement, veterans job readiness, and making elections more accessible.
Refreshments will be served.