"This film should be mandatory in school curriculums everywhere." ~ Richard Roundtree
DAYTIME EMMY AWARD NOMINATION
Leveling Lincoln has been nominated for a 2024 Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Educational or Informational Program.
Awards Ceremony is Saturday June 8 at 6PM Viewed from the Emmy website.
Arden will be accepting the award for the team if/when we win.
It's a 30 second window to speak, so here's her three minute SPEECH:
On behalf of Kimberly Woods and my team,
Thank you NETA, PBS, and NATAS, we are
grateful for this recognition. The Taylor case
led by Paul B. Zuber, was the case that busted the myth that
school segregation was only a
Southern problem. The Taylor family, the
Williams family, the Hall family, the Murphys, the Garlands, Roslyn,
Dorothy Oliver and Valerie. They went through
it for us. This case also shows a duality of how
integration improved the integrated schools
yet also how busing can destroy the
neighborhood it hopes to save in the quest for equity.
The Southern district court of New York as we know from the current news, is an intimidating place to go. As we know today more and more, lives turn on these small individual court decisions. Watch them closely as they creep towards the Supreme Court. Do not close your eyes. In 1960 these 11 children went to the Southern District Court of New York and WON. We are grateful and honored - they went through it. And every graduate of New Rochelle High School
stands on their shoulders.
Kimberly Woods, Tinks Lovelace, Andrew Jordan, Charlie Mount, Jack Stannard, Ivan Copelli, Lynne Robyn Barasch and Kinny Landrum. Linda Tarrant Reid and the Lincoln Park Conservancy Minister Mark McLean of the NAACP, Rita Cofield, Barbara Davis and the New Rochelle Public Library. Everyone who interviewed with us. The Girl Scouts and Paul Francis, Liane Papp our very first donor and hundreds of other donors like Phil McKinley who came thereafter —you know who you are. . Film Independent, Victoria Chalk,the IDA DocuClub, LACity College, The Chimaera Project, Kaplan Loring Foundation—The UCLA Law School’s Documentary Lab. Our small team finished Leveling Lincoln during Covid and saved a tiny piece of this history.
NEWS
NEWS
For Educational Institutions
Leveling Lincoln now available to libraries, schools and universities through Films Media Group an Infobase company. https://films.com/ecTitleDetail.aspx?TitleID=298284&r=SR
DOCUMENTARY MAGAZINE
December 2022 Interview with Arden Teresa Lewis updating IDA about the progress of Leveling Lincoln since shooting began in 2017.
NEW GRANTS
- To.Get.Her Finishing Fund 2022 - Thank you The Chimaera Project for this honor!
- Kaplan-Loring Foundation Finishing Grant 2022
- Finalist in the Fall 2020 Roy W. Dean Film Grants
SEED & SPARK CAMPAIGN ENDS
SEED AND SPARK campaign came to a successful conclusion on Oct 16th, 2020!
Richard Roundtree
"This film should be mandatory in school curriculums everywhere."
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