Dan Danielson and NAACP President of Stamford, CT, Guy Fortt team up to honor late civil/women’s rights activist, Posy Lombard Black Privilege. White Power. is inspired by the life of Posy Lombard, a young affluent white Smith college student from Massachusetts whose courage and dedication helped SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and the Freedom Riders in the deep south during the Civil Rights Movement.
The film is in pre-production, under DFC MEDIA GROUP LLC. However, the screenplay received excellent reviews on Blacklist Hollywood and was a finalist in the Big Apple Film Festival Los Angeles earlier this year. The piece is written and directed by Lombard's nephew, Daniel Danielson, who’s also Black, and the adopted son of Posy’s older sister, Esther Lombard Danielson.
Black Privilege. White Power. explores themes of political justice, friendship, love, loss, and integrity in a period setting. During her time at Smith College, Lombard traveled deep into the southern states of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, during the 1960’s, oftentimes coming face to face with the KKK and the law, to organize and participate in protests. Lombard marched alongside many civil rights icons, including John Lewis and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights hero, voting and women's rights activist, is the other lead role in the film. Lombard worked closely with Hamer during Freedom Summer and played a significant role in securing the entrance for Hamer at the 1964 Democratic Convention, where Hamer would deliver a historical speech describing voter suppression and subjugation.
As co-executive producer and consultant, Guy Fortt, believes the story will resonate with today's youth. Fortt adds “...in the story, the fight for racial justice was met by major opposition, and those who looked like Posy who stood up, were met with great divide. The 2020's uprisings resemble those of 1919, 1943, and 1968 in certain respects - they grow out of simmering hatreds seeded by the long festering history of White violence and police brutality against African Americans.”
Posy Lombard’s three children Matthew, a Los Angeles attorney, Rosemary, managing director at the Center of Mind-Body Medicine, and George first base coach of the Los Angeles’ Dodgers are proud their mother’s story is being told, especially during this time. George Lombard reflects, “Doing the things she did, when it was unheard of for a lot of people at the age of 22, going to Selma, going to Montgomery, going to Atlanta and during those tough times, standing up for rights when she wasn't even African American...it's powerful.” “She just wanted everyone to be treated equally. Where would we be without people like my mother?”
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