On Monday, January 27, LSU Libraries is hosting the second round of events in its film-based program, Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle (funded by a grant from National Endowment for the Humanities).  First, from noon to 1:30 PM, there will be a public forum in the Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall that includes a showing of segments from the documentary, Slavery by Another Name, and a moderated discussion led by Prof. Kodi Roberts of the LSU History Department.  Then, at 6:30 PM, there will be an uninterrupted full screening of Slavery by Another Name at the LSU Bookstore Event Room, on the 2nd floor of the LSU Campus Barnes & Noble Bookstore.

Slavery by Another Name, an official selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, challenges the assumption that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation.  This documentary tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into a brutal system of forced labor.  The film gives voice to largely unknown victims of forced labor at that time and features their descendants living today.

For more information about the events in the Created Equal film-based program, please visit http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sp/subjects/createdequal.