Film Screening and Discussion: At the River I Stand (1993)

Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. At the River I Stand skilfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

At the River I Stand is presented in collaboration with the Nottingham Contemporary and will be introduced by the co-director of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights (University of Nottingham), Professor Sharon Monteith.

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