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Project 103 (Watermargin's Early History) is completed and premiered September 25, 2010 in New York City, the San Francisco Bay area, and Ithaca, NY (see events for details).
Over 60 years ago, following World War II, a band of brothers on the GI Bill came to Cornell to fight a different type of war, against racism and segregation at Cornell. They formed an interracial, inter-religious fraternity where "All Men Are Brothers" and lived and worked together as an example to the larger campus. Using the power of the press, intramural sports, activism, and their passion, they started a change in culture and social norms on campus and beyond. Their work and what followed attracted the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, James Farmer, Malcolm X, and Langston Hughes. Through interviews and historical documents, their story can now be told. Join Watermargin and Cornell alumni for a special reunion celebration and world premiere showing of 103 McGraw Place, a documentary that took over a decade to make and includes first hand accounts from those who lived it.
Project
103 Documentary Teaser (low res)
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Watermargin was founded in 1947 by a
group of World War II veterans who shared the purpose of promoting
understanding between people of different races and religious
affiliations. Over the years, the focus has expanded to encompass all
intergroup relations. In the 1960's, Watermargin went co-ed,
leading to
a change in the motto from "All Men are Brothers" to "All People are
Family." Watermargin's evolving mission is to encourage the expression
of diverse views, to struggle against injustice, and to build
communities.
Former speakers brought to Cornell
by Watermargin's
Education
Program include Eleanor Roosevelt, Langston Hughes, Malcolm
X (in a
debate with James Farmer over segregation), Margaret Mead, Norman
Thomas, Marian Anderson, and more
recently Scott
Ritter, former UN chief weapons inspector, Howard Zinn, and Ziad
Asali, former
president of the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee and
current president of the American Task Force on Palestine.