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Nov. 17, 2006

FREE SCREENING OF DESEGREGATION DOCUMENTARY

A screening of an award-winning documentary produced by SMU graduate Q. Ragsdale will be held Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theater.

 “No Ways Tired: Kathlyn Gilliam and the De-Segregation of Dallas Public Schools” won first place at the 2006 Juneteenth Film Festival for Best Documentary. The documentary chronicles the community-based activism of Gilliam and the successful grassroots organization strategies that ultimately accomplished the desegregation of Dallas Public Schools.

A question-and-answer session with Gilliam and two SMU history faculty members, Glenn Linden and LaTrese Evette Adkins, will follow the screening. Linden is also the author of Desegregating Schools in Dallas: Four Decades in the Federal Courts.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 214-768-3683.

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Contact:
Levente Smith
Tele. 214-768-7650
E-mail: smithl@smu.edu