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Fri Oct 28, 2022, 11:34 AM Oct 2022

'Traveling While Black': Virtual reality exhibit at Civil Rights Memorial Center will immerse audien

As a young boy, Roger Ross Williams would travel with his mother, a single woman who worked as a house cleaner in a small Pennsylvania town, to visit relatives on their farm in Charleston, South Carolina.

“We would pack everything into the car, and we did it in one shot. We never stopped. I never understood why,” Williams, who grew up to be an Academy Award-winning movie director, recalled in an interview released by his film production company.

As an adult, Williams said, he realized why his mom drove 12 hours without a break: “It’s just the reality of being Black in America.”

That reality is the subject of a bold, genre-bending 3D film experience directed by Williams that will be shown at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama, starting Nov. 1 and running until Jan. 22, 2023. The project, “Traveling While Black,” uses high-concept documentary and virtual reality technology to immerse participants into the terrifying world of the United States during legal segregation.



https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/10/28/traveling-while-black-virtual-reality-civil-rights-memorial-center-black-experience

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