{"id":3525,"date":"2016-11-03T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/hamerinstitute\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2023-10-20T17:55:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:55:58","slug":"film-screening-the-30th-of-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/2016\/11\/03\/film-screening-the-30th-of-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening &#8211; &#8220;The 30th of May&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.,<\/strong> The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO will host a film screening of \u201cThe 30<sup>th<\/sup> of May.\u201d For over 100 years, the city of Natchez had two Memorial Day celebrations&#8212;one black and one white. By the mid-1990&#8217;s, the white celebration faded away, while the black celebration known as the &#8220;30th of May&#8221; continued to march on. \u00a0Virtually unknown outside of the region, this annual event is passed down from generation to generation giving evidence that the roots of patriotism run deep in the Mississippi River towns of Vidalia, Louisiana and Natchez, Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Using animation, archival and aerial footage, and interviews with veterans, organizers and participants, the &#8220;30th of May&#8221; documentary brings to life the remarkable untold story of this African American-led patriotic tradition in the Deep South. It&#8217;s a tradition like no other on the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2016\/09\/30th-of-May.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3562\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3562 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2016\/09\/30th-of-May.jpg\" alt=\"30th-of-may\" width=\"396\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2016\/09\/30th-of-May.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2016\/09\/30th-of-May-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 6:00 p.m., The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO will host a film screening of \u201cThe 30th of May.\u201d For over 100 years, the city of Natchez had two Memorial Day celebrations&#8212;one black and one white. By the mid-1990&#8217;s, the white celebration faded away, while the black celebration known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3851,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions\/3851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}