Rising Up Press

Welcome to Rising Up: Virginia’s Civil Rights Movement. The Press page provides news and information concerning the production of Rising Up, a collaborative documentary that tells the history of the Virginia Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of the people who were actually there.

Press Release

Rising Up is a visually stunning documentary film of the African American experience in the civil rights era. The film broadly covers the South, but concentrates on Virginia and follows major events with close, personal stories, including: Samuel W. Tucker's 1939 library sit-in, Irene Morgan's 1946 busing case before the Supreme Court, the school desegregation crisis in 1958-59, the 1960 sit-ins, the violence of Danville and Birmingham in 1963, and the resurgence of black voting and politics in 1965… Read More

Press High Resolution Images

These images from Rising Up are for press materials and use in print publications about the film. The images feature the confrontation on the court house steps in Danville, Virginia in the summer of 1963 between civil rights demonstrators and Danville police. Click the image to download a high resolution .TIF file.


All images courtesy of the Library of Virginia.

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