The Best Place To Start (2019)

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Title

The Best Place To Start (2019)

Subject

African Americans--Reparations.
Slavery--United States--History.
Georgetown University--History

Description

This short film was produced by Georgetown College students Jeanne Bowers, Charlotte Jackson, Keeho Kang, and Megan Shapiro in FMST-399: Social Justice Documentary, taught by Professor Bernard Cook in the Spring 2019 semester. The short film examines the effort by Georgetown students to secure passage of a student government referendum committing each undergraduate student to a new fee of $27.20. The fees would fund reparative justice initiatives in partnership with the descendants of the people enslaved and sold by the Jesuits in 1838. The film organizes an array of perspectives on the referendum and documents the historic vote and outcome.

Creator

Jeanne Bowers, Charlotte Jackson, Keeho Kang, and Meghan Shapiro

Source

Publisher

Georgetown Film and Media Studies

Date

2019

Contributor

Jeanne Bowers, Charlotte Jackson, Keeho Kang, Meghan Shapiro, Bernard Cook, Adam Rothman

Rights

Jeanne Bowers, Charlotte Jackson, Keeho Kang, and Meghan Shapiro

Format

mp4

Language

English

Type

Film

Identifier

GSA390

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Citation

Jeanne Bowers, Charlotte Jackson, Keeho Kang, and Meghan Shapiro, “The Best Place To Start (2019),” Georgetown Slavery Archive, accessed September 21, 2024, https://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/455.

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