North Carolina Museum of Art, 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, North Carolina, is showing a film and presenting a lecture for Martin Luther King Day. Both are free, but require registration. Follow the links to register.
MLK/FBI
Saturday, January 13, 2024
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
East Building, SECU Auditorium
MLK/FBI is the first film to uncover the extent of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Based on newly discovered and declassified files, utilizing a trove of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and unsealed by the National Archives, as well as revelatory restored footage, the documentary explores the government’s history of targeting Black activists and the contested meaning behind some of our most cherished ideals. Featuring interviews with key cultural figures, including former FBI director James Comey, and directed by Emmy Award–winner and Oscar-nominee Sam Pollard, MLK/FBI tells this astonishing and tragic story with searing relevance to our current moment.
When MLK and the KKK Met in Raleigh
Thursday, January 18, 2024
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
East Building, SECU Auditorium
This lecture by National Humanities Center Fellow and NCSU professor Dr. W. Jason Miller focuses on newly discovered film footage documenting the Ku Klux Klan’s 1,800-person march in downtown Raleigh organized to protest Martin Luther King Jr.’s appearance at NC State University on July 31, 1966. Miller also uses 150 previously undeveloped photographs to explain why the KKK stole the front-page headlines even though King’s speech drew five times more attendees. MLK’s reception in Raleigh highlights the sacrifice and discipline the reverend displayed in North Carolina as the leader of the civil rights movement.
The lecture is followed by a discussion moderated by historian Dr. Everett B. Ward and songs by Mahalia Jackson (beloved by Dr. King) performed by North Carolina native Lynnette Barber, who is accompanied by former NCMA composer in residence Carolyn Colquitt.
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