ONLINE: Sifting and Winnowing and Film Burning: The Film UW Restricted

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Images courtesy UW Archives

Still images from previously suppressed hidden camera footage exposing housing discrimination in Madison, circa 1962.

During the early 1960s, Wisconsin NAACP president Lloyd Barbee and UW Extension filmmaker Stuart Hanisch started a hidden camera film project to expose housing discrimination in Madison. Although it began with the support of the university, the institution eventually legally barred it from being shown. The footage has been recently rediscovered, the legal hurdles have been cleared and the project will be screened during a livestream (register here) from PBS Wisconsin and the UW Public History Project. Discussing the film will be historian Betty Banks, YWCA Madison CEO Vanessa McDowell, Daphne Barbee-Wooten and Rustam Barbee.

media release: Join PBS Wisconsin, the UW Public History Project, and expert guests as we reveal never before seen footage exposing housing discrimination in 1962 Madison. The brainchild of then-Wisconsin NAACP president Lloyd Barbee and UW Extension filmmaker Stuart Hanisch, this collection of hidden camera footage was at first supported, then later legally restricted by the University of Wisconsin. Recently uncovered and unrestricted, this groundbreaking film will be shown and discussed by a panel of experts including Barbee’s children Daphne Barbee-Wooten and Rustam Barbee, YWCA Madison CEO Vanessa McDowell, and local historian Betty Banks. Join us to reveal and reflect on Madison’s hidden housing history on Sunday, April 18, at 6:00 pm.

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