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Black History
in Kansas
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OSCAR MICHEAUX GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL CELEBRATION
Great Bend, Kansasshowing at the Barton Arts Center March 24 and 25, 2001 Tentative Schedule as of 9:33 pm on July 6, 2008
All Events Free Unless Otherwise Indicated
| Saturday, March 24, 2001 |
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9:00 a.m. |
The Learning Tree, Director Gordon Parks.
Native Kansan Gordon Parks became the first African-American to
direct a Hollywood Studio film The film is autobiographical in many
respects, about an African American boy growing up in Kansas.
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| 11:00 a.m. |
. "The Blood of Jesus," by Spencer Williams, 1941.
This classic "race movie" by Spencer Williams tells the story of
a near death experience of a recently baptized African-American
woman who was accidentally shot by her husband.
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| 12:00 m. |
Lunch at the Elks Club ($9.00 per person) |
| 1:15 p.m. |
"Within Our Gates," Oscar Micheaux.
This is the oldest feature-length film by an African-American. The famous lynching scene was banned in most states at the time of release in 1919. |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Ninth Street, by Kevin Willmott. This 1999 film by Lawrence, Kansas
Movie Director Kevin Willmott stars Martin Sheen, and Isaac Hayes, in a movie
about Ninth Street in Junction City, Kansas, a notorious strech of black-owned
jazz clubs, bars and businesses that was known as "The Harlem of Kansas."
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| 4:15 p.m.
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The Green Pastures (1936) In the 1930's Warner
Brothers realized that there was money to be made in black cast movies. Instead
of conceding the black cast movie market to people like Micheaux, Hollywood
made movies such as "The Green Pastures," a religious film that explores
Bible stories from an African-American perspective. |
| Sunday, March 25, 2001 |
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2:15 p.m. |
"Daughters of the Dust" 1991. Julie Dash's stunning independent film that Siskel and Ebert gave "two thumbs up." Tommy Hicks, who
was in Great Bend in 1988 for the Oscar Micheaux tombstone dedication, plays
the role of a photographer in a movie about a group of black women who try to
maintain thier African heritage on an island off the coast of Georgia after slavery.
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| 4:15 p.m. |
"Body and Soul" (1925) Oscar Micheaux — Paul Robeson's film debut.
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| 5:15 p.m. |
Imitation of Life, 1959 This Hollywood feature
explores a topic that Oscar Micheaux had broached in the 1920's---
"passing," ----when an African-American "passes" as a white person.
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Meanwhile, at The Crest.
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