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Nat Turner: Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?

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Partner:: Ford Hall Forum
Location:: Ford Hall Forum
Boston, MA
Event Date:: 04.02.09
Speakers:: Charles Burnett,; Frank Christopher,; Kenneth Greenberg
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Summary: What are the distinctions between a freedom fighter and a terrorist? The debate over the meaning of Nat Turner's slave rebellion has been at the heart of race relations in the United States for the past 178 years.

Charles Burnett, MacArthur Award-winning American filmmaker, Frank Christopher, award-winning producer, director, writer and editor, and Kenneth S. Greenberg, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Suffolk University and Distinguished Professor of History, screen their film Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property and explore the significance of Nat Turner today.

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Charles Burnett

Charles Burnett is a MacArthur Award-winning American filmmaker. His most original work concentrates on the lives of the African-American middle-class, who were seldom treated in films. He made his first feature, Killer of Sheep (1977), while a graduate student at UCLA.

Frank Christopher

Award-winning producer, director, writer, and editor, Frank Christopher has worked on such films as The Battle of Midway (1999), Fei Hu: The Story of Flying Tigers (1999), and Great White Down Under (2000). He is a long-time friend and associate of the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Kenneth S. Greenberg, and has partnered with him to create Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003) and the PBS series, Remaking American Medicine (2006). Christopher is the recipient of several awards including, the Blue Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival (1984), the Grand Coral winner at the Festival of Latin American Cinema (1984), and the the Gold Award winner at the Houston International Film Festival (1988); in addition, he has been nominated for both an Academy Award (Best Feature Length Documentary, 1984) and an Emmy Award (Outstanding News Documentary Program Achievement, 1987).

Kenneth Greenberg

Kenneth S. Greenberg, nationally acclaimed history filmmaker and author, is the Dean of Suffolk University's College of Arts and Sciences. Greenberg joined the History Department at Suffolk University in 1978 and has chaired the History and Philosophy departments since 1989. He became Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 2000 and was named Distinguished Professor of History in July 2003.

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01.: Introduction

03 min 09 sec

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02.: Coming to the Subject of Nat Turner

07 min 17 sec

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03.: Different Interpretations of Nat Turner

01 min 49 sec

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04.: Historian's Search for the Right Hanging Tree

04 min 44 sec

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05.: Needing More Time to Tell Whole Story

02 min 53 sec

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06.: Treatment of Violence

05 min 32 sec

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07.: Modern Effects of Rebellion

01 min 56 sec

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08.: Understanding Nat Turner's Position

05 min 39 sec

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09.: Few People at the Hanging

03 min 03 sec

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10.: Samboization in Media

02 min 53 sec

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11.: Weak Defense of Nat Turner

05 min 12 sec

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12.: Putting Interview Subjects in One Room

02 min 17 sec

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Charles Burnett Rationalizes Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion

02 min 13 sec

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Posted: 07.30.09, 08:49 AM

I really enjoyed this & I have to mull this rich content to process what it meant to me.

but,
I'm left with one tangential 'operational' question that doesn't require much consideration:
why don't they ever install mic pop-screens at these events?

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