Joanna Hay to present films and audio about the 1964 Freedom March

Frankfort KY, Joanna Hay has been invited to participate in the Kentucky Historical Society’s commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the 1964 Freedom March on Frankfort with a presentation of her films and audio work on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 1:00 in the Brown-Forman Room at the Kentucky History Center.

Joanna will be presenting the audio piece “We Are The Women Behind The March”, as well as one or two short documentaries about the 1964 Freedom March that was attended by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Jackie Robinson, Peter, Paul and Mary and 10,000 Kentuckians.

Joanna Hay Productions along with Dr. Le Datta Denise Grimes and Judy Sizemore produced the project MLKMarchOnFrankfort.com with support from the City of Frankfort, the National Park Service and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. Students can access lesson plans for these films at PBS Learning Media in the Kentucky’s Black History and Culture Collection.