Film Screening and Discussion of Two Trains Runnin'

National Archives at Kansas City
Kansas City, MO

On Monday, September 24 at 6:00 p.m., the National Archives in partnership with Park University, will host a film screening and discussion of Two Trains Runnin’. This program will take place in the David Theater in Alumni Hall on the Park University campus, 8700 NW River Park Drive, Parkville, MO.

Two Trains Runnin’ pays tribute to a pioneering generation of musicians and cuts to the heart of our present moment, offering a crucial vantage from which to view the evolving dynamics of race in America. In June 1964, hundreds of college students, eager to join the civil rights movement, traveled to Mississippi and started what would be known as Freedom Summer. That same month, two groups of young men made up of musicians, college students and record collectors also traveled to Mississippi. Though neither group was aware of the other, each had come on the same errand: to find an old blues singer and coax him out of retirement.

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sam Pollard, Two Trains Runnin’ features the music of Gary Clark Jr and is narrated by Common. The documentary was nominated for a 2018 Grammy Award for Best Music Film and it was named one of the “Best Music Docs of 2017” by Rolling Stone.

Email or call 816-584–6214 to make a reservation for this free program. This program is presented in partnership with the American Jazz Museum, Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group, and Park University.