Channel: caltech

Category: Science & Technology

Description: "100 Years From Mississippi" is a true story of resilience, forgiveness, memory, and hope. Mamie Lang Kirkland still remembers the night in 1915 when panic filled her home in Ellisville, Mississippi. Her family was forced to flee in darkness from a growing mob of men determined to lynch her father and his friend. Mamie's family escaped, but her father's friend, John Hartfield, did not. He suffered one of the most horrific lynchings of the era. Mamie vowed to never return to Mississippi – until now. After 100 years, Mamie's youngest child, filmmaker, Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, takes his mother back to Ellisville to tell her story, honor those who succumbed to the terror of racial violence, and give testimony to the courage and hope epitomized by many of her generation. A live Panel Discussion and Q&A followed the screening with panelists: - Filmmaker Tarabu Betserai Kirkland - Allen Edson, President of the NAACP, Pasadena Branch - Caltech's Danielle L. Wiggins, Assistant Professor of History, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. ©2022 California Institute of Technology