| TR-259189-18 | Public Programs: Media Projects Production | Women in Film and Video, Inc. | Changing State: Black Diplomats, Civil Rights, and the Cold War | 1/1/2019 - 1/31/2022 | $450,000.00 | Leola | | Calzolai-Stewart | | | | Women in Film and Video, Inc. | Washington | DC | 20036-2506 | USA | 2018 | Diplomatic History | Media Projects Production | Public Programs | 450000 | 0 | 449999.91 | 0 | Production of a one-hour documentary about
three African American men who broke the color line at the U.S. State
Department in the years following World War II.
Changing
State: Black Diplomats, Civil Rights, and the Cold War (working title)
is a one-hour documentary about three African-American men who broke the color
line at the U.S. State Department in the years following World War II. Our
characters (Edward R. Dudley, Carl T. Rowan, and Terence Todman) helped dismantle
long-standing color barriers in the Foreign Service yet were caught in the
crossfire of the civil rights movement, Cold War politics and international
public relations. Their diplomatic careers reveal the struggles inherent in
representing a country that didn’t represent them. As African-American envoys
of a segregated America, could they ignore the wrongs in their own country—and should they? They
were pioneers, but pioneers with a problem: as they broke new ground, they were
stepping into quicksand. Changing
State is intended for national public television broadcast, with a
strong educational tie-in and curriculum package.
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