Santa Cruz Black Film Series: The Taking of Harris Neck: 80 years of Injustice for the Gullah People
SCPL is pleased to partner with Santa Cruz Black on their 2024 Santa Cruz Black Film Series to provide additional opportunities to watch and discuss these important films.
B.L.A.C.K. On Screen is a five-documentary film series focusing on the themes behind our acronym BLACK: Building Legacies of Access in Communities of Kinship.
Through June, screenings will be the 3rd Tuesday at the Resource Center for Nonviolence and the 3rd Wednesday of the month at the Capitola Branch Library. Doors open at 6:00, screenings begin at 6:30. Registration/RSVP is not required, but recommended to help us plan. RSVP for the Tuesday screening at the Resource Center for Noviolence HERE. Or register for the Wednesday Capitola screening below.
The Taking of Harris Neck: 80 years of Injustice for the Gullah People is May's film.
Each screening will be followed by a discussion and/or Q&A. Some of the filmmakers will be participating. Stay tuned!
ABOUT THE FILM
In 1942, the US government illegally took 2687 acres of land owned by descendants of freed slaves to build an airbase. Now 80 years later the community is still fighting to get their land back.
The series continues with:
June 19
Descendant. Follows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story.
- Date:
- Wednesday, May 22, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 9:00pm
- Location:
- Ow Family Community Room
- Branch:
- Capitola
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Civic Engagement Discussion Group Films