The “Who is Jim Crow?” Film Series

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”   MLK, Jr.

Kickoff:

Monday, October 28, 2013, 7 PM to 9 PM

New Progressive Baptist Church, 8 Hone Street, Kingston, New York

Free – Light Refreshments

Showing: The New Jim Crow, with Michelle Alexander
A talk delivered at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, NYC in 2012.  Alexander’s Book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, spearheaded a nationwide movement to end mass incarceration and the racial caste system it has created.

Discussion: Led by Odell Winfield, founder of the End the New Jim Crow Action Network (ENJAN) and Pastor G. Modele Clarke (New Progressive Baptist Church)

Sponsors:
ENJAN Kingston
New Progressive Baptist Church
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills – Social Justice Committee
Woodstock Jewish Congregation – Task Force to End the New Jim Crow
Citizen Action NY – Hudson Valley
Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library (Family Services, Poughkeepsie)
AAUW Kingston

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For more information, call Odell Winfield (914-388-3092)

Recommended audience: High School, Adult

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