Documentary and Discussion of The Times of Harvey Milk
Friday, September 18, 2020
12 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Zoom
Register here. Registration for direct participation in the Zoom talk and discussion is reserved for the Carnegie Mellon community. We encourage others to watch the live stream of the event on our Facebook page.
Join IPS Director and Taube Professor and Kiron Skinner on Zoom for a viewing of The Times of Harvey Milk, about the twentieth-century trailblazer, human rights activist, and one of the first openly gay US politicians elected to public office. Professor Skinner will lead a discussion of the film afterward.
The Times of Harvey Milk, directed by Robert Epstein, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1985. The documentary uses news film and interviews to tell the story of Milk’s election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and his subsequent assassination.
The film includes archival footage of Harvey Milk, Jimmy Carter, Dianne Feinstein, Anne Kronenberg, and George Moscone.
Presented in partnership with CMU PRISM.
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Harvey Milk in 1978. Photo courtesy of Daniel Nicoletta / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)