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Filmmaker Judy Richardson, an activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil rights movement, will speak on Oct. 30 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Filmmaker Judy Richardson, an activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil rights movement, will speak on Oct. 30 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The free public talk will be at 7 p.m. in the theater of UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History on South Road. During the program, the center will unveil a new commemorative quilt that will be on permanent display in the center.

Richardson’s talk will be the 16th annual Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture honoring the center’s namesake, the late UNC faculty member Sonja Haynes Stone.

She advocated for the center, directed the curriculum in African and Afro-American studies and was an adviser to the Black Student Movement in the late 1970s.  Each year, the lecture is given by a black woman whose work, scholarship and service epitomize the spirit of Stone.
The center commissioned creation of the quilt, “Follow the Path, Seek the Dream,” by UNC associate professor of history Heather Williams. The quilt, 12 feet wide and 14 feet long, recognizes prominent blacks of UNC and of the Stone Center.

Richardson, a senior producer with Northern Light Productions in Boston, will discuss “Will the Circle be Unbroken: The Relevance of the Civil Rights Movement.” The talk will be part of the center’s reflection on the global significance of 1968-69.

Richardson produces documentaries about blacks for TV and museums. She was senior associate producer and researcher for “Eyes on the Prize,” a PBS television series first aired in 1987. The series traces the civil rights movement from the Montgomery bus boycott in 1954 to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Richardson also produced “Malcolm X: Make It Plain,” first aired on PBS in 1994.  She made the two-hour History Channel documentary “Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters” and helped found the now-defunct black bookstore Drum & Spear in Washington, D.C. in 1968.

Six women SNCC alumnae including Richardson edited “Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC,” soon to be published by the University of Illinois Press. The anthology collects the stories of more than 50 women who were active in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Previous Stone Memorial lecturers have included Angela Davis, Congresswoman Eva Clayton, Kathleen Cleaver, Sonia Sanchez, Atallah Shabazz and Alfre Woodard.

For more information on Richardson, visit http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/
and search by her name. For more information on the Oct. 30 program, contact the center at (919) 962-9001 or visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/stonecenter.

Stone Center contact: Olympia Friday, (919) 962-7265, ofriday@email.unc.edu
News Services contact: LJ Toler, (919) 962-8589

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