We invite you to join us for Part IV in a free series of four African American history–related documentary film screenings presented by professor of music, Mark Burford. Admission is free. 

Attica (2021)
Directed by Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry

On September 9, 1971, 1,200 inmates at the correctional facility in Attica, NY, seized the yard at the maximum-security prison, demanding more humane treatment and better conditions. News cameras covered the story from both outside and inside the prison. Five days later, state police massacred 29 inmates and 10 hostages. Through original interviews with former inmates, family members of the hostages, and first-hand witnesses, Attica remembers the largest and most tragic prison rebellion in U.S. history, a still unanswered wake-up call about the need for prison reform.

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