Events › Foot Soldiers: Class of 1964 Screening & Discussion

The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in collaboration with Ebenezer Baptist Church's Navigating Our World (N.O.W.) and the Heritage Ministry, will screen and have a post screening discussion on “Foot Soldiers: Class of 1964” is an award-winning, independent documentary about women in the Class of 1964 at Spelman College, who participated in the largest coordinated, series of civil rights protests in Atlanta’s history as college freshmen. As young women – sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen years old – these willing souls were some of the foot soldiers of the Atlanta University Center who carried the Atlanta Student Movement through relentless picketing, sit-ins, kneel-ins, and other non-violent demonstrations. Their bold activism is an Atlanta story that helped change the world. For decades, the faces in the crowd have gone unnamed; their voices unheard. Who were these young women? What motivated these students who had just completed high school to get involved in such a movement? What in their family background prepared them for such an undertaking? How did their activism as young college students impact the remainder of their college matriculation and the rest of their lives? These questions are answered in “Foot Soldiers: Class of 1964.”

The post-screening conversation will be with the film's Producer, Dr. Georgianne Thomas, and Rev. Alvelyn Sanders Swafford.  Moderating the conversation will be Mrs. Connie F. Smith-Lindsey and Rev. John H. Vaughn.