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Film and Talk: The People and the Police

Date:
Saturday, November 10, 2018
Time:
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

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On-site tickets available starting at 1 pm.

In 1968, soon after the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil disturbances it sparked, the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity funded a pilot project to address policy-community relations. Confident that their experiment, the “Pilot District Project,” would ease tensions in the city, they engaged Guggenheim Productions to record it for a documentary film. Unexpectedly the project—which marked Marion Barry’s first elected position in Washington, D.C.—and the film, did not meet their hopes. Watch the archived 1971 film CG 8225: The People and the Police documenting the effort.

Join a discussion moderated by Derek Musgrove, associate professor of history at University of Maryland-Baltimore Campus, and co-author of Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital. Panelists include Robert Shellow, social scientist and first director of the Pilot District Project; Frank Smith, founding director of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum and former D.C. councilmember; and Clarence Lusane, political science professor at Howard University and scholar of African American politics, comparative race relations, and modern social movements. This program complements the exhibition Community Policing in the Nation’s Capital: The Pilot District Project, 1968-1973 is co-produced with the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

This event is free, but registration is encouraged.

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