Chapter 19 Stanley Nelson

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson has been awarded five prime-time Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, a 2002 Fellowship (often called the “genius” award) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and a National Medal in the Humanities, bestowed in 2013 by President Barack Obama. Eight of his films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015); Freedom Summer (2014); Freedom Riders (2011); Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2007); A Place of Our Own (2004); The Murder of Emmett Till (Special Jury Award, 2003); Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (2000); and The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (Freedom of Expression Award, 1999).

In 2000, ...

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