In 1989 independent filmmaker, Monty Diamond, made a documentary short on Black Mountain College, which contextualizes the emergence of the school within the global context of rapidly shifting political and educational trends in of the early 1930's, and illustrates how in some ways history is repeating itself today. The film provides dispassionate information about the school's mission, organization, key players and work product. The film also provides a critique of how crisis in education and politics can serve as opportunity for education and artistic enlightenment, and a new social cohesion.
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Frances Perkins: The woman who designed Social Security
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