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 III
Thursday, July 21, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

William Jersey and Barbara Connell, A Time for Burning, 1967, 58 minutes
The film chronicles the integration of Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska.
The film has been placed in the Library of Congress, United States National Film Registry.

Leslie Woodhead, Listen Whitey!, 1968, 25 minutes
The film deals with the traumatic weekend of riots following Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968.

William Greaves, The Best of Black Journal, 1968–70, 15 minutes (selections)
This program is a tribute to the first African American television producer, who is a legendary documentary filmmaker on issues of human rights.