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

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Apr 7th, 5:30 PM

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.