Join us for an evening of film and conversation inspired by Jim Hodges’s installation With Liberty and Justice for All (A Work in Progress). A screening of the 2016 documentary What the Hell Is the Presidency For?: LBJ’s Battle for Civil Rights considers the legacies of Lyndon Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and how the important civil rights legislation of the 1960s still affects Americans today.
Following the film, Mark K. Updegrove, Director of the LBJ Presidential Library, offers thoughts on LBJ’s presidency and social justice issues that continue to resonate today.
Co-presented by the LBJ Presidential Library.
FREE
Phone: 5124535312
2017/01/11 - 2017/01/11
Additional time info:
Doors open at 6pm. Film will begin at 7pm. Following the film will be a discussion with the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library.
The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center
700, Austin, TX 78701