Event Date

February 20, 2022 4:00 pm

Location

Appalachian Theatre, Downtown Boone NC

Admission

Free

My Name is Pauli Murray Virtual Film Screening via Appalachian Theatre of the High Country Boone NC At 4 p.m. on Sunday, February 20, an online screening of the documentary film, “My Name is Pauli Murray” is available free of charge as part of the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. Told largely in Pauli’s own words, the film is a candid recounting of that unique and extraordinary journey. Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, a full decade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned separate-but-equal legislation, Pauli Murray was already knee-deep fighting for social justice. A pioneering attorney, activist and dedicated memoirist, Murray shaped landmark litigation and consciousness around race and gender equity. As an African American youth raised in the segregated South, while also wrestling with broader notions of gender identity, Pauli understood, intrinsically, what it was to exist beyond previously accepted categories and cultural norms. Both Pauli’s personal path and tireless advocacy foreshadowed some of the most politically consequential issues of our time. “My Name is Pauli Murray” is presented online and tickets to the screening includes a conversation with the filmmakers following the screening. Tickets are free and available at www.apptheatre.org. This event is part of the Appalachian Theatre’s BOONE DOCS series and made possible through the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, a South Arts program. Since its inception in 1975, Southern Circuit has brought some of best independent filmmakers and their films from around the country to communities throughout the South. The program is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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