Tuesday Night Film

All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
4501 Walnut Street
Kansas City, MO 64111
www.allsoulskc.org


The All Souls Documentary Series shows a film at 7p.m. each Tuesday. Our series emphasizes quality films with social justice themes that rarely make it to conventional movie theaters. Mike McKelly, our in–house film guru and Carolyn Macdonald long time coordinator of our locally recognized Forum lecture series co-facilitate this acclaimed documentary series.

Each screening is followed by a lively facilitated discussion. Admission is free and popcorn and snacks are available for a very nominal fee. No tickets or reservations are needed. The public is welcome!

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Freedom on My Mind
This classic film on the civil rights movement focuses on one episode in the long struggle for equal rights – the voter registration drive in Mississippi in the early 60s. Mobilized by idealistic young black activists like Robert Moses, poverty-stricken sharecroppers, domestic, and day laborers stood up to demand their constitutional right to vote. Black activists, hoping to draw national media attention to their cause, invited 1000 progressive white students from the North to join them in 1964 for what became famous as Freedom Summer. That inspiring summer and the fearless mass movement leading up to it resulted in the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1964, changing the political face of the South.
Tuesday, February 12 – 7:00 p.m.


Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues
This documentary shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters and the other legendary women who made the blues a vital part of American culture. The film brings together for the first time dozens of rare, classic renditions of the early blues. Yet the celebrity status of performers offered little protection against segregation and economic exploitation. With the Depression, American musical taste shifted towards the upbeat sounds of swing, and the classic blues died out. Yet as contemporary Chicago blues artist Koko Taylor reminds us, the blues and their legacy continue.
Tuesday, February 19 – 7:00 p.m.