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"Emancipation, Revelation, Revolution" (World Premiere), a striking film about the Republican Party's role in ending slavery and supporting the Civil Rights movement, directed by Nina May and produced by Nina May and Tricia Erickson...

From www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas:

10/3/2005

The Washington Times on Emancipation & The Liberty Film Festival

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— Jason @ 11:22 pm

John McCaslin’s “Inside the Beltway” column today for The Washington Times covered the Liberty Film Festival and one of the great films we’re showing at it: Nina May’s Emancipation, Revelation, Revolution. We’re extremely excited to be showing this film from Nina, who is tackling one of the most controversial issues in politics today: the historical role of the Republican Party in black Americans’ struggle for equal rights. Here’s an excerpt from John’s column:

Add documentary filmmaker to the resume of McLean resident Nina May among other titles of founder and chairman of the Renaissance Foundation, which brings together political and business leaders of different countries and cultural backgrounds. “Our film – ‘Emancipation, Revelation, Revolution’ – has been selected to be in the 2005 Liberty Film Festival in Hollywood, California, from October 21 to 23,” she tells Inside the Beltway.

“It is a documentary that looks at the history of the civil rights movement in America, the roles both major political parties played in that history, why blacks today are trapped on the liberal plantation, and what happens to conservative blacks when they choose to leave.”

Among the other feature films selected for the festival: “Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60,” “Cochise County, USA: Cries From the Border,” “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West,” “Fellowship 9/11,” “Grace Before Meals,” and a selection of Kurdish/Iraqi shorts from the First Short Film Festival in Iraq.

Nina’s Emancipation, Revelation, Revolution is about the foundational role of the Republican Party in the abolition of slavery, and also the Civil Rights movement. The film argues that the Republican Party was created to end slavery, and that major legal reforms and acts of legislation passed to give black Americans the vote - and full civil rights, equal to whites - were created and passed by Republican legislators.

The movie also follows the fascinating story of how every black American elected to Congress immediately after the Civil War was a Republican, how President Eisenhower signed into law some of the 20th century’s most important civil rights reforms, and how most black Americans up until the 1960s were Republicans!

It goes without saying that black Americans today are not usually given this information about their own history. Why? In large part to protect a ‘civil rights’ establishment that is beholden to the Democratic Party, and that is committed to keeping black Americans on the liberal ‘plantation.’

Alveda King, niece of Rev. Martin Luther King.

The film features interviews with conservative black intellectuals and activists like Shelby Steele, Deroy Murdock, Armstrong Williams, Niger Innis (CORE), Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Mason Weaver and Star Parker. It also features inteviews with Alveda King - the niece of Rev. Martin Luther King - and Gloria Jackson, the great-grand-daughter of Booker T. Washington.

There will be a special introduction of the film at the Festival by noted conservative black activist Ted Hayes, who’s well-known and well-loved around here in LA. And we’ll also have a Q&A with Nina May, who directed the film. Tickets for this event are going quickly, so get your tickets here. Showtime is 1:30PM, Saturday October 22nd at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood...

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