Roots and Reckoning Media Page
As a part of the art show and programming we have two media features from Treasure Shields Redmond of "The Community Archive" and Tiffany Lee of "Think Black". Please click link and video to access their media and enjoy the voices of East St. Louis history and beyond.
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East St. Louis, Illinois is the site of a race massacre that occurred in 1917. Known popularly as the “1917 East St. Louis Race Riot,” the event spanned three days and resulted in between 100-300 deaths.
This is the voices of elders whose parents and relatives experienced the riots. The Class Of 1917 podcast is an oral history of survival.
website: The Community Archive
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I Bear Witness: The Untold Stories of American Race Riots is a short documentary film examining five race riots through the eyes of witnesses and victims.
I Bear Witness serves to dispel the societal myth of the Race Riot as an anomaly and seeks to begin the conversation of the Race Riot as nationwide terroristic acts used over 100 years to quell Black efforts toward equal rights and economic prosperity.
website: thinkblack.us.
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