Special Screening Announced of ‘The Barber of Birmingham’

The
Leadership Conference Education Fund is co-hosting a special screening for the
civil and human rights community of the award-winning documentary, “The Barber of Birmingham,” at 9 a.m.
Friday, June 24, in the Mary Pickford Theater at The Library of Congress. The
one-hour program is being hosted by Congressman
Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi.

“The
Barber of Birmingham” documents the story of James Armstrong,
a WWII veteran and an original flag bearer for the 1965 “Bloody
Sunday” march from Selma to Montgomery, who for half a century ran a voter
education program out of his barbershop. Despite threats to
his life and home, his two sons were the first to integrate an all-White
elementary school. And before his death in 2009, he lived to see his dream come
true: the election of a Black man as president of the United States.

The
film had its world premiere at the Sundance
Film Festival, won Best Documentary: Short Subject at the Ashland
Film Festival, and was screened
in Birmingham for a capacity crowd of 2,000. This moving portrait of James
Armstrong, one of the foot soldiers of the civil rights movement, reminds us of
the untold thousands whose names are not in history books but on whose
shoulders we all stand.

Email [email protected] to
RSVP.

Watch
the trailer below or at barberofbirmingham.com/trailer/.