As part of its bicentennial celebration in 198889, Georgetown University honors this remarkable community in a documentary video titled "Black Georgetown Remembered." Through the recollections of the members of the Georgetown black community, some of whom still reside in Georgetown, the documentary pays tribute to a community that thrived amidst slavery, Jim Crow laws, and economic inequity to emerge with a rare strength and identity. It features the remembrances of the decades of the 1940s to the 1950s when the population of Georgetown changed markedly.

This video complements the book "Black Georgetown Remembered" first published in 1991 and now available in a 25th anniversary commemorative hardcover edition: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/geor...

Produced and directed by David W. Powell

Executive Producer Kathleen Menzie Lesko
Producer, Story Conception Valerie Babb
Writer Larry Klein
Producer Lorraine DavisDantley
Producer Robin Stevens Payes
Research Historian Carroll R. Gibbs
Educational Consultant Ronald M. Johnson
Educational Consultant Joseph M. Murphy

Produced for Georgetown University by Powell, Kritzer & Associates

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