Parades, Protests, Chicago, & Cinema
Test your knowledge of parades and protests that center, in some way, on Chicago and film.
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1. In 1988, this unnamed Chicago woman protested one of Martin Scorsese's films as inaccurate and blasphemous. Which controversial Scorsese film is she protesting? (Image: Decatur Herald and Review, 13 Aug 1988)
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2. Big-name movie stars like Diana Ross, Lena Horne, and Paul Robeson have attended this Chicago parade, the largest African American parade in the U.S.
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3. Which documentary from Chicago-based Kartemquin Films explores the protest on October 22, 1963, when 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation? (Screenshot: movie trailer)
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4. In 1917, alderman Robert R. Jackson—cofounder of Chicago’s first African American baseball team and a Chicago city councilman—championed a law that would essentially ban this movie that portrays African Americans as villains and the Ku Klux Klan as heroes. Rightfully so, it is one of the most-protested motion pictures of all time. Which film did Jackson help ban?
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5. As of February 2020, a new film on the life and accomplishments of this famous investigative journalist and civil rights leader is on its way. Who is this Chicago activist who met her husband while writing a pamphlet protesting the lack of Black representation at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
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