PLEASE join the Association for Campus Entertainment (ACE) today for the FREE FILM SCREENING of filmmaker, director and UTC graduate Brian Cagle’s documentary “No Incident, No Service: Chattanooga’s 1960 Lunch Counter Sit-ins.” 
 
The approx. 30-minute film will be shown at NOON in the University Center’s RACCOON MTN. ROOM on the main floor.  A representative from the Chattanooga Regional History Museum will lead a short discussion afterward of this film which features UTC’s Booker Scruggs and Roland Carter.

A second evening screening of the film will be at 7 p.m. in the TENNESSEE ROOM also on the main floor of the UC.

FREE DESSERTS and BEVERAGES will be provided at both viewings.

ACE is providing this film as an early Black History Month cultural event for students and the UTC community.


Notes about Cagle’s film from a www.chattanoogan.com story:

No Incident, No Service: Chattanooga’s 1960 Lunch Counter Sit-ins focuses on the unique story of those involved in Chattanooga’s lunch counter sit-ins. Across the South in the late 1950s and early 1960s, other African Americans who followed the call to end segregation were mostly college students, and the sit-ins they took part in were not in their hometowns. 

Chattanooga’s lunch counter sit-ins were organized and implemented by Howard High School Seniors. They and their families lived in Chattanooga. The risks they took were greater because the “powers that be” could choose to retaliate for their actions by threatening their parents and their parents’ jobs. Regardless, the students persevered, adhering to the guidelines for passive resistance advocated by Ghandi and Dr. Martin Luther King. 

While many of the participants moved away after they finished school, several still live here and were interviewed for the film. Booker Scruggs, Roland Carter, Virgil Roberson, Leamon Pierce and Billy Edwards all shared their memories of that time and the effect their involvement had on their lives, as did former mayor Gene Roberts.

THANK YOU for your support!

--Nicole Stewart
Asst. Director of UC—Student Activities