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Film, Video Memorialization & Justice as an Ancestral Imperative: Two American Cases

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Title

  • Memorialization & Justice as an Ancestral Imperative: Two American Cases

Summary

  • The role of orally transmitted ancestral memory in ongoing struggles to overcome past injustices is proving critical in the struggle for human rights, civil rights and justice. In this context, the presentation reflects on two path-breaking cases of recent public memorialization: the Moiwana Massacre, which took place in the Republic of Suriname, South America and the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2015-06-25.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Suriname, Colorado, Moiwana Massacre, Sand Creek Massacre, human rights, civil rights, justice

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Ken Bilby.
  • -  Recorded on 2015-06-25.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689834

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Memorialization & Justice as an Ancestral Imperative: Two American Cases. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-25, 2015. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689834/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2015) Memorialization & Justice as an Ancestral Imperative: Two American Cases. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-25. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689834/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Memorialization & Justice as an Ancestral Imperative: Two American Cases. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-25, 2015. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689834/>.