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Those who attended the 2009 National BMCR meeting in Pittsburgh, PA., may remember that Jim Salley highlighted portions of this documentary in the “Why BMCR?” session that featured Bishop Marcus Matthews and others. Bishop Matthews was a student at South Carolina State College when the Orangeburg Massacre took place and has shared his story with the group and with the Council of Bishops. Jim was a high school student in 1968 and his classmate, Delano Middleton, was killed in the event. He has been asked to be the keynote speaker at the annual Orangeburg Massacre ceremony on February 8 at South Carolina State University. Please take the time to watch "Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre, 1968" this month on one of your local PBS stations. Upcoming broadcasts in February on many PBS stations of Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre, 1968. This is the latest documentary film by award-winning filmmaker Judy Richardson. The link below gives information about when Scarred Justice will be showing in your local areas, and what stations will carry the broadcast. It will air across the United States—from Alaska to Florida, and from New Hampshire to California. Most of the air dates are on February 4, February 7, February 8 (the date the Massacre occurred), or February 28. SCARRED JUSTICE – The Carriage Report (National broadcast times) is sorted by MARKET RANK/STATION/DATE/TIME. Anyone who wants to know when a program will air can go to this link: http://www.itvs.org/shows/broadcast.php?showID=7701 and enter the city or the station they want information for – it generally gets updated on Thursdays. They are sortable – by city, station, or date – if you click on the desired heading.
The following is excerpted from Internet sources. Veteran of the original Civil Rights Movement, member of SNCC, and recipient of an Image Award for Vision and Excellence from Women in Film and Video, Judy Richardson began her film work as co-producer of the Academy Award-nominated, 14-hour PBS series, Eyes on the Prize. She also co-produced the 1994 Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary, Malcolm X: Make It Plain (for PBS' The American Experience). Her most recent documentary with Northern Light Productions, Scarred Justice, (co-produced with Bestor Cram) examines the 1968 Orangeburg, South Carolina student Massacre — one of the many overlooked corners of the Civil Rights Movement. Of it, Julian Bond said, "This masterful film casts a brilliant light on events shamefully obscured for decades." Howard Zinn agrees, "This hidden piece of history has now been brought to light in a powerful, passionate documentary." |
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