FLASHBACK 1.5" "Race or Race or Reason: The
Bellport Dilemma"
Live at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, "Race or Race or Reason: The Bellport Dilemma". 1970s film by Betty Puleston
& Lynne Jackson.
Flashback 1.5" is shot and edited on mobile phone by
Donna Cameron © 2011.
In 1969-70 Bellport High
School on Long Island, NY, became the scene of
angry
racial confrontations between poor African-Amercan and Hispanic
and affluent White students, resulting in its temporary closure and a
police presence. Speaking: Students from the Bellport High School 1969
race riots, 30 years later, at a MoMA show of the Puleston/Jackson video.
Also on the program: documentaries by George Stoney/David Bagnall.
Program: William Sloan, Chief Emeritus, MoMA Circulating Film Library.
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