Green Book
The patron's guide to festival events. IN TRIBUTE TO THE GREEN BOOK NEGRO TRAVELER’S GUIDE, 1936-1966.
Carry your festival Green Book with you, You may need it.
FOUNDER’S NOTE
Our world, as beautiful as it can be, continues to need repair; each of us does our part, but it seems never enough. One necessary condition for healing is truth, so that all of us operate from a shared and understood set of facts on how we got to where we are, and what needs to change.
The March on Washington Festival, the product of so many creative and passionate minds and hearts, is a national platform for this conversation; to better tell our stories, to honor those who have paved the way, and to better understand how our history connects to our future.
Thank you for your participation.
Thank you for your story, your contribution, your criticism, and your encouragement.
- Robert Raben
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National Archives
National Museum of Women in the Arts
National Public Radio
The Phillips Collection
Public Welfare Foundation
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Washington National Cathedral
Wednesday, July 13 6:30 p.m.
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church
Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
Moderator: Jacquie Gales Webb, Award-winning radio producer and host
Panelists:
Bernice Johnson Reagon and Toshi Reagon
Rutha Harris and Charles Neblett, original Freedom Singers
Ysaye Barnwell’s Building a Vocal Community
Les Hyman, personal friend of Nina Simone
And a performance by Shannon Dorsey portraying Fannie Lou Hamer
Thursday, July 14, 6:30 p.m.
Navy Museum, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Reflections on the Green Book
Introduced in 1936, for 30 years this historic guide helped Negro motorists travel safely through the segregated south, cementingits place in 20th century social history.
Film: The Green Book Chronicles | US | 2016 | excerpt
Panelists:
Calvin Alexander Ramsay, film producer
Bunnie Jackson Ransom, First Class, Inc.
Joyce Verrett, retired provost and professor, Grambling State University
Andrew Kahrle, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Moderator: Dr. Tiffany Gill, Univ. of Delaware.
Thursday, July 14, 6:30 p.m.
Public Welfare Foundation, 1200 U St. NW
The Amazing Nina Simone
This new documentary reveals the real Nina Simone through over 50 intimate interviews with those who best knew the passion, artistry and activism of one of America’s true musical genius.
Film: The Amazing Nina Simone | US | 2015 |110 Min.
Moderator: Michele Norris Johnson, producer, The Race Project
In partnership with Public Welfare Foundation
Panelists:
Jeff L. Lieberman, filmmaker
Sam Waymon, Nina Simone's brother and band member
Roscoe Dellums, attorney and cultural creative
Les Hyman, personal friend of Nina Simone
Special guest, Nikki Giovanni, renowned poet and scholar
Nikki Giovanni
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Friday, July 15 6:30 p.m.
Navy Museum, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Civil Rights and the Gridiron:
Social Activism in Pro Football.
This year is the 70th anniversary of the integration of the NFL, and the 60th anniversary of the founding of the NFL Players Association.
Film: Third and Long | US | 2011| excerpt
Moderator: Bill Rhoden, sports columnist, New York Times
Panelists:
Theresa Moore, executive producer, Third and Long
Retired NFL player Walter Beach
Arizona State athletic director and former NFL executive and agent, Ray Anderson
NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith
Performance by HardSoles & S.T.U. Arts, and the Columbia Heights Ed. Campus (CHEC) Drumline.
Theresa Moore
Walter Beach Ray Anderson
Saturday July 16, 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Landmark E St. Cinemas, 555 11th St. NW
The finalist and prize- winning films in our first Student and Emerging Filmmaker Competition.
Presenting a selection of exciting finalists’ and prize-winning films in our first Student and Emerging Filmmaker Competition.
Saturday July 16, 6 pm.
Navy Museum, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Civil Rights and the World
From the American March on Washington and the March on Paris in 1983, to the police killings of Mark Duggan in London and Freddie Grey in Baltimore, this evening examines issues of social justice in the US, France and UK.
Film: Les Marches de la Liberté| France | 2013 | 52 Min.
Film: The Hard Stop | UK | 2015 | 85 Min.
Panelists:
Rokhaya Diallo, filmmaker, author and host of BET France
DeRay Mckeeson, Baltimore activist, Black Lives Matter
Moderator: Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, staff writer, The Atlantic
Juleyka LantiguaWilliams Rokhaya Diallo
Sunday, July 17, 4 p.m.
Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave, NWl
More than 50 years after Dr. King’s death, this spirited panel discusses the role and responsibility of white ministers and white churches in addressing present day racial injustice.
Panelists:
Dr. Delman Coates, Sr. Pastor, Mt. Ennon Baptist Church
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Bishop of Washington
Rev. Jim Wallis, Founder and President, Sojourner
Moderator: Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, Canon Theologian,
Washington National Cathedral
In partnership with the Washington National Cathedral
Monday, July 18, 6:30 p.m.
Navy Museum, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NWl
Remembering the Life of Maya
This first documentary on the life of Maya Angelou, produced by members of her inner circle, reflects on history, culture and the arts shaped her life, and how she in turn shaped our own worldview through her autobiographical literature and international social activism.
Film: Maya Angelou and Still I Rise | US | 2016 | 114 Min
Panelists:
Rita Coburn-Whack and Bob Hercules, filmmakers
Colin Johnson grandson of Maya Angelou
Moderator: Isisara Bey, executive producer, March on Washington Film Festival
Rev. Jim Wallis
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
Dr. Delman Coates
Colin Johnson,
Tuesday July 19–3:00 p.m.
Smithsonian Museum of American History, Coulter Performance Plaza
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, a lecture on the definitive political biography of Rosa Parks that examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as accidental actor in the Civil Rights Movement.
By the author, Professor Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College.
“I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was 42. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
-Rosa Parks
Tuesday, July 19–6:30 p.m. NPR
Black
Radio and Civil Rights
With music as the soundtrack, we take a look at the career of legendary singer and civil rights activist Mavis Staples, the role of Stax Records and Black radio in the Civil Rights Movement.
Film: Mavis! | 2015| US| 80 Min
Moderator: Jacquie Gales Webb, renowned radio host and executive producer of Black Radio Telling It Like It Was.
Panelists:
Al Bell, songwriter, record producer and owner, Stax Records.
Sonja Williams, author, broadcast journalist, professor, Howard University
Jonathan Jackson, entrepreneur, social justice advocate
In partnership with National Public Radio
Jacquie Gales Webb
Jeanne Theoharis Al Bell Sonja Williams
TURNING CHALLENGES INTO OPPORTUNITY
Whether
“ WE MUST ACCEPT FINITE DISAPPOINTMENT, BUT NEVER LOSE INFINITE HOPE
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 6:30 p.m.
National Museum for Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW.
One to One: Carmen de Lavallade in Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander
The famed dancer/choreographer shares insights with President Obama's inaugural poet.
Thursday, July 21, 1:30 p.m.
The Phillips Collection, 1600 21 St. NW
Shared Legacies: Honoring the Black/ Jewish Civil Rights Alliance, Pt.1
Commemorating the life and contributions of Julius Rosenwald, an immigrant peddler who rose to the top of Sears & Roebuck and built over 5000 schools for African-Americans in the South.
Film: Rosenwald | US | 2015 |100 Min.
Panelists: Aviva Kempner, filmmaker Elsa Smithgall, curator
Moderator: A'Lelia Bundles, journalist and author
Plus a special preview of the exhibit, People on the Move–Beauty and Struggle in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series.
In partnership with The Phillips Collection
Alexander Aviva
Elizabeth
Kempner Elsa Smithgall
Carmen de Lavallade
Thursday, July 21, 6:30 p.m.
The National Archives, Constitution Ave., between 7th and 9th Sts. NW. Shared Legacies: Honoring the Black/Jewish Civil Rights Alliance, Pt.2
Film: Shared Legacies: Honoring the Black/Jewish Civil Rights Alliance| US | excerpt
Panelists:
Rev. C.T. Vivian, Civil Rights icon and recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Dr. Clarence Jones, personal adviser for Dr. King; USF Diversity Scholar
Dr. Susannah Heschel, scholar and daughter of theologian and activist, Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Rabbi Israel Si Dresner, past President, Education Fund for Israeli Civil Rights and Peace
Dr. Gerald Durley,world justice leader and 57-year veteran of the Civil Rights Movement.
With Rabbi Ben Kamin, Rabbi Jonah Dov Posner, and filmmaker Dr. Sharilynn Rogers. Special Guest, Academy Award-winner Louis Gossett, Jr.
Moderator: Deborah Lauter, Anti Defamation League
Performance: Yvette Spears and the Robyn Helzner Trio
In partnership with the National Archives.
Friday, July 22, 3:00 p.m. Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Constitution Avenue between 12 and 14 Sts. NW
Shared Legacies: Honoring the Black/Jewish Civil Rights Alliance, Pt. 3
A conversation with Rabbi Ben Kamin, scholar and author of Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levinson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Kennedy Brothers with Dr. Clarence Jones, personal attorney and adviser to Dr. King, on the important relationship between King and Levinson.
Moderator: A'Lelia Bundles, journalist and author
In partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Friday, July 22, 6:30 p.m. Google, 25 Massachusetts Ave., NW Redemption: The 1974 Howard University Soccer Team
Chronicling the struggles and achievements of the Howard University soccer program in the 1970s.
Film: Redemption Song | US | 2007 | 12 Min
In partnership with Google.
Panelists:
Mark Wright, film producer
Rick Arthur, player
Mori Diane, player
Lincoln Phillips, coach
Ed Foster-Simeon, executive director, US Soccer Foundation
Mark Wright
Moderator: Clinton Yates, senior editor, The Undefeated, ESPN
Saturday, July 23, 10:00 a.m.
Landmark E Street Cinemas, 555 11th St. NW
Its 1964, and the search for two forgotten blues singers perilously coincides with the Freedom Summer voter registration campaign and three missing Civil Rights workers in Mississippi.
Film: Two Trains Runnin’ | US | 2016 | 80 Min
Panelists:
Sam Pollard, award-winning film and TV director, producer and editor
Courtland Cox, founding member of SNCC
Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Judy Richardson, activist, filmmaker
Moderator: Ben Hedin, author and producer
Saturday, July 23, 6:00 p.m.
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Constitution Ave. between 12th and 14th Sts. NW.
From Civil Rights to Elected Office: Gantt, Watt and Foxx
Exploring the role that activism played in the lives and highachieving political careers of three men who were and remain close and supportive mentors and friends.
Film: The Education of Harvey Gantt | US | 2013 | 30 Min directed by Betsy Newman, South Carolina ETV. Narrated by Phylicia Rashad
Panelists:
Hon. Harvey Gantt, first African-American Mayor of Charlotte, NC
Hon. Mel Watt, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and former US Congressman (NC-12th District)
Hon. Anthony Foxx, Secretary of Transportation and second African-American Mayor of Charlotte, NC.
Moderator: Debra Lee, Chairman and CEO, BET
Reception preceding the screening and panel
Performance by Nolan Williams and the Voices of Inspiration
In partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Debra Lee Harvey Gantt Melvin Watt Anthony Foxx
FOUNDER
Robert Raben
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Isisara Bey
LINE PRODUCER
JoAnn Gwynn
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
Praveen Fernandes, Samara Foxx, Broderick Johnson, Rory Verrett, Christina Weaver, Alicin Williamson, Justin Wilson
PROGRAMMING CONSULTANT
Opal Bennett
PERFORMANCE CURATOR
Nolan Williams, Jr.
WEBSITE
Jonathan Kent
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Jayson Salomon
PHOTOGRAPHER
Kevin Allen
VIDEOGRAPHY
DuPont Studios
MARKETING AND MEDIA RELATIONS
Shalonda Hunter, Mia Jacobs, Lia Seremetis, and the Walker International Communications Group
TALENT MANGER
Ben Friedman
ADMINISTRATION
Erin Dominguez, Joanne Irby, John Skic, Kara Watkins
LEGAL
Joe Onek
SPECIAL THANKS TO
All our Filmmaker Competition jurors, Spill the Honey, and our interns and volunteers. YOU CAN SUPPORT
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