Event Title
You Asked for the Facts
Location
Overby Center Auditorium
Start Date
7-4-2020 5:30 PM
Publication Date
April 2020
Description
In 1966, four years after the historic enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi, student activists devised a plan to defy Mississippi’s speaker ban and bring Robert F. Kennedy to the university to reveal the truth about former governor and staunch segregationist Ross Barnett. Mary Blessey is a Mississippi filmmaker and recent graduate of the Center’s MFA in Documentary Expression program. She received her MA in Southern Studies, also from the University of Mississippi, and she is the owner and founder of her production company, Holley Street Media. Here film, You Asked for the Facts, is a component of Blessey’s MFA thesis project.
Relational Format
conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Blessey, Mary and University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, "You Asked for the Facts" (2020). All In. All Year Events Calendar. 35.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/all_in/2020/events/35
You Asked for the Facts
Overby Center Auditorium
In 1966, four years after the historic enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi, student activists devised a plan to defy Mississippi’s speaker ban and bring Robert F. Kennedy to the university to reveal the truth about former governor and staunch segregationist Ross Barnett. Mary Blessey is a Mississippi filmmaker and recent graduate of the Center’s MFA in Documentary Expression program. She received her MA in Southern Studies, also from the University of Mississippi, and she is the owner and founder of her production company, Holley Street Media. Here film, You Asked for the Facts, is a component of Blessey’s MFA thesis project.