community activism

Fair Hill: To Badlands and Back Again

Posted December 13th, 2007 by Intern
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Producer of the Work / Filmmaker: 

Fair Hill Cemetery with Scribe Video Center

Filmmaker Facilitator: 

Videomaking Consultant - Martin Lautz; Humanities Consultant - Miriam Camitta; Post Production - Martin Lautz

Year released: 
2005
Length: 
9 min 32 seconds
Price: 

This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol.2 compilation DVD.

Fair Hill: To Badlands and Back Again the history of a 300-year-old Quaker cemetery in North Philadelphia on Germantown Avenue. Deeded to local residents by Quakerism founder George Fox in the 1700s, the burial ground is the resting place of many of women and men who were active in the Underground Railroad. Philadelphians such as feminist and abolitionist Lucretia Mott and abolitionist Robert Purvis are buried here.

Louise Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words

Posted July 19th, 2007 by Gretjen
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Producer of the Work / Filmmaker: 

Louis Massiah and Scribe Video Center

Year released: 
2002
Length: 
18 minutes

If she had been a bigger fan of capitalism, Louise Thompson Patterson might have been a Horatio Alger heroine, lionized today as a pioneering woman of the Harlem Renaissance and a role model for both African Americans and women of all colors. Instead she put the skills and education that she fought for and won in a racist society to work for the liberation of African Americans, the US working class, and the exploited and oppressed peoples throughout the world.

Filmmaker's Name: 
Louis Massiah
Filmmaker's Photo: 
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Press: 

ebruary 18, 2002 - Cinema on the Edge screening at Ithaca College's Park Hall Auditorium (Ithaca, NY)

- February 21-23, 2002 - Part of "Langston Hughes and His World: A Centennial Celebration," a Yale Department of African American Studies program (New Haven, CT)

- October 1, 2002 - Issues in Black Independent Cinema: The Documentary series at University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

- October 17, 2005 - Screened in the Jones Room of the Woodruff Library at Emory University, followed by a panel discussion with scholars and activists, including Pattersonís daughter, Dr. MaryLouise Patterson (Atlanta, GA)

- March 10, 2006 - Part of event focusing on the work of Louis Massiah and held at Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources (Buffalo, NY)

Public Screenings, Broadcasts and Festivals: 

October 2005 - "About Arts at Emory" Artist of the Month Interview with Randall K. Burkett prior to Emory University screening of documentary

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