The film offering for Wednesday, April 3, will be "The Ernest Green Story." This 1993 feature documents the 1957 integration of Little Rock’s Central High by focusing on the role of Green, the oldest of the Little Rock Nine and the first African-American graduate of Central.

"Ruby Bridges," a 1998 film, will be shown on Thursday, April 4. The film focuses on a first-grader who was selected by the NAACP to implement the federally mandated integration of the New Orleans public schools in 1960. The title character faces not only the open animosity of many in the community but a sense of isolation from her fellow students.

On Tuesday, April 9, the film series will present "Freedom Song," set in the fictional community of Quinlan, Miss. Emphasizing the role of local people who are assisted by an organizer from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the film is told through the eyes of a teenager whose involvement in the movement to desegregate Quinlan alienates him from his father.

"Freedom Song" concludes the film series on Wednesday, April 10. Nominated for an Academy Award, the documentary relates the story of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s.

For further information on the film series and other Delta Blues Symposium events, contact the Department of English and Philosophy at 870-972-3043 or send e-mail to delta@astate.edu. The Symposium web site is www.clt.astate.edu/blues.