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Adelphi to Host Screening of Film About the Last Desegregated School in New York

Garden City, NY (02/17/2021) — On Thursday, March 11, Adelphi University will present a screening of "Secrets of the Hollow: Last Disintegrated School," a documentary about then-future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall's effort to end segregation in New York schools. The virtual screening, part of Adelphi's Great Minds, Great Conversations series, runs from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Produced by Adelphi 1985 graduates and sisters Alicia M. Crow and Alice T. Crowe, the film looks back at the civil rights activist's visit to Hillburn, New York, in 1943 to assist striking parents in the community bring an end to segregation at Brook School, the last segregated school in New York, more than a decade before Marshall's landmark Brown v Board of Education case in 1954. The documentary is narrated by Chuck D, 1984 Adelphi graduate and 2012 honorary degree recipient, founder of the rap group Public Enemy and an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

After the screening, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion at Adelphi, will engage Alicia and Alice in a conversation about the film. The documentary has been screened at the Pan African Film Festival 2020, Yonkers Film Festival 2019, Ogeechee Historical Film Festival at Georgia Southern University, and the Queen City Cinephiles Festival in Charlotte, North Carolina.

About The Crowe sisters:

Both graduates of Adelphi University and Howard University School of Law, Alicia M. Crowe and Alice T. Crowe are lawyers and founders of the law firm Crowe and Crowe as well as the production company, ACroweFlyz Productions, which envisions, directs and produces works that seek to tell impactful stories of the Black experience.

Alicia received the Juror's Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking at the Annual Women of African Descent Film Festival in 2018 and wrote, produced and performed in her one-woman show, "Come on Up … My Castle's Rockin'," about legendary jazz and blues pioneer Alberta Hunter at the Triad Theater in New York.

Alice, a former member of the Rockland County Journal News editorial board, worked for the newspaper as a freelance writer after college. She was also a contributing author to "Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective." Her entrepreneurial skills as the manufacturer of Emmaline's All Natural Hot Sauce earned her the Whole Foods Market Local Hero award in 2007.

The event is open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please visit bit.ly/AU3-11-21.

About Adelphi: A modern metropolitan university with a personalized approach to higher learning

Adelphi University, New York, is a highly awarded, nationally ranked, powerfully connected doctoral research university dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes with world-class faculty, hands-on learning and innovative ways to support academic and career success. Adelphi offers exceptional liberal arts and sciences programs and professional training, with particular strength in our Core Four-Arts and Humanities, STEM and Social Sciences, the Business and Education Professions, and Health and Wellness.

Recognized as a Best College by U.S. News & World Report, Adelphi is Long Island's oldest private coeducational university. It serves almost 8,000 students at its beautiful main campus in Garden City, New York-just 23 miles from New York City's cultural and internship opportunities-and at dynamic learning hubs in Manhattan, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, as well as online.

More than 116,000 Adelphi graduates have gained the skills to thrive professionally as active, engaged citizens, making their mark on the University, their communities and the world.

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