QHC Plans Tuesday Night ‘Boycott’ Film Series

Movies Include Boycott!, César Chávez and Walkout Three films on consecutive Tuesday evenings will be held this month in conjunction with an exhibit featuring a collection of historical boycott posters at the Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center at Wilmington College. The exhibit is titled “Boycott! The Art of Economic Activism” and the accompanying films depicting historic boycott movements include: Boycott, Sept. 13; César Chávez, Sept. 20; and Walkout, Sept. 27. The screenings will be at 8 p.m. in the Quaker Heritage Center. Boycott is the HBO film featuring the 1955/’56 Montgomery Bus Boycott while the 2014 film, César Chávez, shows how the passionate, but soft-spoken, Chávez embraced nonviolence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to persecuted Latinos. Walkout is based on the true story of student activist Paula Chrisostomo. The film recounts the walkout of 10,000 students, at five East Los Angeles high schools in 1968, protesting inferior educational conditions and anti-Mexican bias. The QHC exhibit, “Boycott! The Art of Economic Activism,” runs through Oct. 14. Normal gallery hours include weekdays, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and by special arrangement from curator Ruth Brindle. Special Saturday hours will be held Sept. 24, from noon to 5 p.m., as part of the national Museum Day Live! programming. The traveling exhibit features more than 50 posters from almost 20 boycott movements of the 20^th century, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycott, divestment from South Africa to protest Apartheid, boycotts of corporations using sweatshop labor and the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions.