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Film and Discussion: “Eyes on Mississippi”

Ellen Ann Fentress, producer and director; Errin Whack, Associated Press

October 11, 2018 · 7:00 pm8:30 pm · Princeton Public Library

Princeton Public Library, Not in Our Town Princeton, Program in Journalism

The life of influential journalist Bill Minor, who covered the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi for seven decades, is the subject of this documentary. Minor was the New Orleans Times Picayune’s Mississippi correspondent and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, Newsweek and other national publications. Producer and director Ellen Ann Fentress will lead a post-screening discussion with Errin Whack, National Writer on Race and Ethnicity for the Associated Press.

Co-sponsored by the Princeton Public Library, Not in Our Town Princeton, and the Program in Journalism at Princeton University.

Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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