'Wednesdays in Mississippi' in Memphis

Stars from the film Wednesdays in Mississippi appeared on a local Memphis, Tennessee, television station. Co-producer and director Marlene McCurtis joined Susan Goodwillie Stedman and Josie Johnson for a segment on WREG-CBS to discuss the film, shown in conjunction with Facing History and Ourselves’ Choosing to Participate traveling exhibit, on display September 6 through November 6, 2011, at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library.

Wednesdays in Mississippi tells the story of the dozens of upper- and middle-class Northern black and white women who traveled to Jackson, Mississippi, during the summers of 1964 and 1965. The women left the North on Tuesday nights only to return to their homes on Thursdays in order to build support for the civil rights movement.