Recognizing that the economic disparities resulting from privilege and exacerbated by the pandemic are a barrier to engagement, the North Dakota Human Rights Film and Arts Festival has completely removed financial barriers to engaging with the festival. As a result, access to the festival's programming is free and accessible to all. As your individual situation allows, you are welcome to donate to the festival to help support our work.
Films are available to screen from midnight, Sunday, November 6, through midnight, Sunday, December 11.
Films in the North Dakota Human Rights Film and Arts Festival have not been rated for adult content and may include violence, nudity, language, and adult situations. Viewer discretion is advised.
In this 5-minute documentary short, the late Robert Honeysucker (1943–2017) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a professional baritone singer and teacher well known in Boston's classical music scene, and Nicholas Bosanquet, a distinguished health economist in London, recall their youthful attempt to desegregate a concert by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London in Jackson, Mississippi, on November 1, 1963, their subsequent arrest, and the ensuing international uproar that inspired prominent musicians to boycott performances before segregated audiences.
Following a formal protest to the President of the United States from student members of Cambridge Union, charges against Honeysucker and Bosanquet were dropped. The film contains footage not seen since 1963 of Sir Malcolm Sargent and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performing in Boston's Symphony Hall several weeks before the incident in Jackson, which was broadcast nationally one week after the incident, a little more than two weeks before the assassination of JFK. Honeysucker contrasts the dramatic music of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Benjamin Britten's "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell") with his singing of several civil-rights-era marching songs in his deep, rich baritone voice.
Robert E. Honeysucker, Jr. (1943–2017) was born in Memphis, the son of a Methodist minister. He recalled growing up in small towns in western Tennessee, where his father preached, "In those towns, I learned the key to the apartheid state that was the South. While I was never told to kowtow, I was always admonished not to confront, not to appear defiant, less I face the white man's wrath."
Recognizing that the economic disparities resulting from privilege and exacerbated by the pandemic are a barrier to engagement, the North Dakota Human Rights Film and Arts Festival has completely removed financial barriers to engaging with the festival. As a result, access to the festival's programming is free and accessible to all. As your individual situation allows, you are welcome to donate to the festival to help support our work.
Films are available to screen from midnight, Sunday, November 6, through midnight, Sunday, December 11.
Films in the North Dakota Human Rights Film and Arts Festival have not been rated for adult content and may include violence, nudity, language, and adult situations. Viewer discretion is advised.
In this 5-minute documentary short, the late Robert Honeysucker (1943–2017) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a professional baritone singer and teacher well known in Boston's classical music scene, and Nicholas Bosanquet, a distinguished health economist in London, recall their youthful attempt to desegregate a concert by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London in Jackson, Mississippi, on November 1, 1963, their subsequent arrest, and the ensuing international uproar that inspired prominent musicians to boycott performances before segregated audiences.
Following a formal protest to the President of the United States from student members of Cambridge Union, charges against Honeysucker and Bosanquet were dropped. The film contains footage not seen since 1963 of Sir Malcolm Sargent and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performing in Boston's Symphony Hall several weeks before the incident in Jackson, which was broadcast nationally one week after the incident, a little more than two weeks before the assassination of JFK. Honeysucker contrasts the dramatic music of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Benjamin Britten's "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell") with his singing of several civil-rights-era marching songs in his deep, rich baritone voice.
Robert E. Honeysucker, Jr. (1943–2017) was born in Memphis, the son of a Methodist minister. He recalled growing up in small towns in western Tennessee, where his father preached, "In those towns, I learned the key to the apartheid state that was the South. While I was never told to kowtow, I was always admonished not to confront, not to appear defiant, less I face the white man's wrath."