Duncan Littlefair Great Speakers

in conjunction with ACLU & Celebration Cinema

Presents

A FREE Advance Screening of

An HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS & AUGUSTA FILM production

"THE LOVING STORY"

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 – 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Celebration Cinema North 
Grand Rapids, MI

A heart-rending love story and a racially-charged criminal trial converge in this documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, a part-black, part-Indian woman married to a white man in Jim Crow-era Virginia in 1958. Thrown into rat-infested jails and forced to leave their home or go to prison because their marriage was against the law, the Lovings fought back and changed history. They were paired with two young and ambitious lawyers who were driven to pave the way for social justice and equal rights through a historic Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia. THE LOVING STORY takes us on a journey into the heart of race relations in America. But, in the end, it is a poignant story of two people who simply wanted to chose who they could love and marry and live in the place they called home. This documentary, with its contemporary parallels, will live on as record of monumental change, not just in civil rights, but in the human right to pursue happiness regardless of color, gender or creed.

Learn more at www.loving film.com

The film screening (approx 1 hour) will be followed by a Q & A session with the film's producer, Elisabeth Haviland James, and a panel discussion with local civil rights attorney Stephen Drew.

FREE soda and popcorn to all event ticket holders.

Tickets limited to 2 per person

"The Loving Story" is an Augusta Films Production, co-Produced by HBO Documentary Films, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.