Tuesday, October 16 – Military Appreciation Breakfast
Joel Beeson, assistant professor at the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism will present highlights from his documentary film “Fighting on Two Fronts: Untold Stories of African American Vets from WWII” at the Military Appreciation Breakfast, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 8-9:30 a.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.
The film grew out of Beeson’s work as director of West Virginia’s Veterans History Project, a collaboration with the American FolkLife Center and the Library of Congress to collect the oral histories of West Virginia’s 202,000 veterans.
“The stories of these men and women are not recorded in the official histories of our country’s involvement in WWII,” says Beeson, “so their experiences are vital to complete the historical record.”
Beeson was awarded a media grant from the West Virginia Humanities Council to produce a documentary about West Virginia’s African American veterans. The documentary, scheduled to air this Veterans Day on West Virginia Public Television, reveals the stories of five “Greatest Generation” veterans who were forced to fight two battles—against racism at home and against an enemy on foreign sands.
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