This documentary traces the development, struggles, contributions, and gradual loss of tradition of one of the last remaining African-American benevolent societies, founded after Emancipation and known as “The Fair Hope Benevolent Society.” oin executive producers and co-directors, award winning Harlemite and director by S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell Metcalf in a talk back with Schomburg director Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.
Films at the Schomburg: The Contradictions of Fair Hope
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | The New York Public Library
515 Malcolm X Boulevard | New York, NY 10037 | www.schomburgcenter.org
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