Sat 12/14 @ 1-3:30PM
The film Black Buckeyes: A Tale of Two Cities, looks at the history of African-Americans in Cleveland and Cincinnati, and how those cities’ roles in the Underground Railroad and the Great Migration impacted African-Americans in different ways that are reflected in their respective civic environments today.
The film, produced and directed by the Rev. Dr Leah Lewis, is still a work in progress. Lewis has completely a first version of the Cleveland part of the film, which features interviews with two dozen black Clevelanders. Later she’ll talking to black residents of Cincinnati. Her springboard is the story of a woman named Margaret McQueen, who, along with two other women, escaped from slavery in Parkersburg, West Virginia and crossed into Cincinnati, and whose descendants are still a major force here in the Cleveland community.
This segment of the film will have its debut screening at the East Cleveland Public Library. It’s free and open to all.
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