Rock Fish Stew Institute of Literature and Materials

The Education of Ida Owens

November 22, 2013 by Steve Balcom

This 30­-minute documentary follows Ida Owens from her upbringing in rural North Carolina to her years at Duke University, where she became the first African-­American woman to receive a Ph.D. When Ida reflects on the complicated cultural waters of her era, questions about identity, memory, and social activism surface. This personal exploration of Southern history and the Civil Rights movement brings to the forefront the past and its lingering effects.

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