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The Silver Rights Movement

Project Director: Neil Williams

Website: http://www.crequevision.com/sr

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"If you think about it, we are in our third stage of life...first we get 'Freedom' in 1865, then we get equal rights in 1969 — that was only a little more than 30 years ago — and now we are trying to get economic equality and economic parity...we are trying to get our 'SILVER RIGHTS'."

-Farad Ali
Vice President, NC Institute of Minority Economic Development

The Silver Rights Movement will use the legacy of Durham's Black Wall Street and Hayti district as a textbook to examine current economic disparities affecting African-American on a national level. This promises to be a film of the highest quality that will spark national debate on the economic history and current conditions of African-Americans in this country.