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ECU to host screening of This Side of the River: Self-determination and
Survival in the Oldest Black Town in America, a documentary from the
North Carolina Language and Life Project (NCLLP), with a panel featuring Princeville residents to follow
(February 19, 2008) – The Office of Institutional Diversity at East Carolina University announces the screening of This Side of the River: Self-determination and Survival in the Oldest Black Town in America, by filmmakers Ryan Rowe and Drew Grimes. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with historians and Princeville citizens. This event will be held in Hendrix Theatre at the Mendenhall Student Center at East Carolina in Greenville, N.C., on Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 6 p.m.
With support from the Office of Institutional Diversity, the African and African American Studies Program and Intercultural Affairs, this event is free and open to the public.
In 1999, small and relatively-unknown Princeville, North Carolina made national headlines when engulfed by the flood waters of Hurricane Floyd. This Side of the River brings to the surface a moving re-telling of the undocumented page of our American story that lay beneath those floodwaters for eleven days and the heart-wrenching decision Princeville faced to rebuild their home or move. Through intimate interviews, inspiring local blues and gospel, and a vivid visual dialogue with the land, "This Side..." captures a generously open tour given by the people of Princeville through the timeline of the first incorporated all-Black American town.
On February 20, 2008, Princeville will celebrate 123 years since the town’s incorporation.
For more information on the film, plans for the new Princeville African American History Museum and Visitors Center, and efforts of the Princeville Outreach Project go to: www.thissideoftheriver.org.
For more information on the screening and discussion at East Carolina, contact diversity@ecu.edu or (252) 328-5731.
ECU to host screening of This Side of the River: Self-determination and
Survival in the Oldest Black Town in America, a documentary from the
North Carolina Language and Life Project (NCLLP), with a panel featuring Princeville residents to follow
(February 19, 2008) – The Office of Institutional Diversity at East Carolina University announces the screening of This Side of the River: Self-determination and Survival in the Oldest Black Town in America, by filmmakers Ryan Rowe and Drew Grimes. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with historians and Princeville citizens. This event will be held in Hendrix Theatre at the Mendenhall Student Center at East Carolina in Greenville, N.C., on Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 6 p.m.
With support from the Office of Institutional Diversity, the African and African American Studies Program and Intercultural Affairs, this event is free and open to the public.
In 1999, small and relatively-unknown Princeville, North Carolina made national headlines when engulfed by the flood waters of Hurricane Floyd. This Side of the River brings to the surface a moving re-telling of the undocumented page of our American story that lay beneath those floodwaters for eleven days and the heart-wrenching decision Princeville faced to rebuild their home or move. Through intimate interviews, inspiring local blues and gospel, and a vivid visual dialogue with the land, "This Side..." captures a generously open tour given by the people of Princeville through the timeline of the first incorporated all-Black American town.
On February 20, 2008, Princeville will celebrate 123 years since the town’s incorporation.
For more information on the film, plans for the new Princeville African American History Museum and Visitors Center, and efforts of the Princeville Outreach Project go to: www.thissideoftheriver.org.
For more information on the screening and discussion at East Carolina, contact diversity@ecu.edu or (252) 328-5731.
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