Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 7 p.m.
Annenberg Auditorium (ASC)
3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089

Through the Banks of the Red Cedar 

ADMISSION: 
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Thursday, January 9, at 9 a.m.

DESCRIPTION: 
In 1963, Michigan State Head Coach Duffy Daugherty recruited 23 African American football players from the American South. Through the Banks of the Red Cedar, a powerful documentary about the first fully integrated college football team in America, unfolds through the eyes of filmmaker and USC alumna Maya Washington, the youngest daughter of Michigan State Athletics Hall of Famer and 50 Greatest Vikings honoree Gene Washington. She retraces Gene’s footsteps from the segregated South to Michigan State, and later the NFL, revealing how scholarships impacted the lives of players of color, who were literally dropped into an integrated environment for the first time, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in America.

A screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, her father, his teammate Clinton Jones, and USC professors Daniel Durbin and Ben Carrington about the themes and issues that the film explores, which remain relevant to this day.