The Peace & Social Justice Committee and Intersectional Anti-Racist Anti-Oppression Commission host a 12:00 pm screening of “My Father’s Name,” an award-winning short film that Prof. Henry Louis Gates calls: “A gripping and essential exploration of race, accountability, and the far-reaching consequences of family secrets.”
More info from the filmmakers:
Years after Lee Ed Frazier’s death, his daughter Jan made a shocking discovery: as a young man her father had participated in a lynching. As she attempts to uncover the truth about what happened, Jan learns that this specific lynching was iconic in American history, because photos of it were the first ever to be published in a national publication. Both Time and Life magazines carried the story and the photos as they reported on the anti-lynching bill that was before Congress at that very moment.
Additionally, she realizes that no names of the lynchers were ever published. Even the photographer was protected by a cloak of agreed-upon anonymity. Shaken by this stark reflection of white privilege and the brutality it sought to minimize, Jan must now reckon with deeply conflicted feelings about the father she loved, find a way to hold her family accountable and face the dawning awareness of her own unconscious racism.
We will have time after the screening for a discussion.
Please contact justice@uusm.org with questions.
