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Arts & Entertainment

Film Program - Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968

Contemporary Documentary

Scarred Justice: the Orangeburg Massacre 1968 (2009)
Directed by Bestor Cram and Judy Richardson
57 mins.
Examines a tragic incident excluded from most histories of the Civil Rights Movement by presenting official and survivor accounts of a police action against students on the campus of South Carolina State University.
 
Sadiq Sundiata will introduce the film and moderate a discussion following the screening.
Mr. Sundiata is a former president of the Ossining NAACP, a founding member of the Ossining Open Door Clinic and a former chairman of the Rockland County Congress of Racial Equality.

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