Oscar Micheaux Golden Anniversary
March 24-25, 2001 — Great Bend, Kansas
at the Barton Arts Center

Watching movies

The Crest
speakers
gospel fest
audience
lobby

The Cemetery Buffalo soldiers
speakers
wreathlaying
crowd
more

Elks Club

Country Club

Art Center
Chamber coffee
movies
gallery

Zarah Mall

Angus Inn

The Capitol

Misc.

Saturday, March 24, 2001
	9:00 a.m.	The Learning Tree, Director Gordon Parks. Native Kansan Gordon Parks became the first African-American to direct a Hollywood Studio film The film is autobiographical in many respects, about an African American boy growing up in Kansas.
	11:00 a.m.	. "The Blood of Jesus," by Spencer Williams, 1941. This classic "race movie" by Spencer Williams tells the story of a near death experience of a recently baptized African-American woman who was accidentally shot by her husband.
	12:00 m.	Lunch at the Elks Club
	1:15 p.m.	"Within Our Gates," Oscar Micheaux. This is the oldest feature-length film by an African-American. The famous lynching scene was banned in most states at the time of release in 1919.
	2:30 p.m.	Ninth Street, by Kevin Willmott. This 1999 film by Lawrence, Kansas Movie Director Kevin Willmott stars Martin Sheen, and Isaac Hayes, in a movie about Ninth Street in Junction City, Kansas, a notorious strech of black-owned jazz clubs, bars and businesses that was known as "The Harlem of Kansas."
	4:15 p.m.	The Green Pastures (1936) In the 1930's Warner Brothers realized that there was money to be made in black cast movies. Instead of conceding the black cast movie market to people like Micheaux, Hollywood made movies such as "The Green Pastures," a religious film that explores Bible stories from an African-American perspective.
Sunday, March 25, 2001
	2:15 p.m.	"Daughters of the Dust" 1991. Julie Dash's stunning independent film that Siskel and Ebert gave "two thumbs up." Tommy Hicks, who was in Great Bend in 1988 for the Oscar Micheaux tombstone dedication, plays the role of a photographer in a movie about a group of black women who try to maintain thier African heritage on an island off the coast of Georgia after slavery.
	4:15 p.m.	"Body and Soul" (1925) Oscar Micheaux — Paul Robeson's film debut.
	5:15 p.m.	Imitation of Life, 1959 This Hollywood feature explores a topic that Oscar Micheaux had broached in the 1920's--- "passing," ----when an African-American "passes" as a white person.