VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Menil Collection, the Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Southwest Alternate Media Project present The Whole World Was Watching Film and Television Series July 12, 14, 19, & 21, 2011 in the Freed Auditorium at the Glassell School, 5101 Montrose Blvd. Curated by Gerald O'Grady and presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs from Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil at the Menil Collection and the African American Library at the Gregory School.

Television brought the civil rights movement into the livingrooms of everyday Americans in the 1960's, exposing them to injustices against African Americans in the segregated South. “The Whole World Was Watching” will showcase films that documented their struggle for equality and were instrumental in raising public awareness.

Film Program II
Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

Madeline Anderson, Integration Report I, 1960, 24 minutes
Filmed by Albert Maysles and Richard Leacock, this documentary on civil rights marches, sit-ins, rallies, and boycotts is set in an American landscape of rigid segregation.

Richard Leacock, The Children Were Watching, 1961, 25 minutes
The film records the integration of primary schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the violent demonstrations of white parents.

Robert Drew, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, 1963, 52 minutes
Filmed by famed documentarians D. A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock and others, the film records the conflict of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert (the U.S. Attorney General) with Governor George Wallace over the integration of the University of Alabama.