Posy Wiggins made helped make change happen. I became aware of her at an event at the wonderful Paul Cuffee School in Providence eight years ago when the senior members of the black community talked about her with so much respect and affection that I knew she had done a lot. But what? That’s what this film is about. It began as a short film about her, and then expanded to be a film about her and the times she grew up in, particularly her work in Providence dealing with race discrimination. Recent events in our country make it clear we have a lot more work to do. Posy, a white woman born into privilege, began her work on this topic some 50 years ago. It takes a lot of time to change a culture.
To view the video on Posy Wiggins, simply click on this link and click on play (you may have to work to bring the image down to see the play button on your screen). There is no need to join Vimeo.
To see more video documentaries by Carla Ricci, click here: Carla Ricci
You can also see Carla’s award-winning documentary “One Day . . . The Story of a Storm, a Video Documentary of the 1938 Hurricane in Rhode Island,” which appeared on the smallstatebighistory.com website in 2017 (to see this article, click on the Archives tab above and type in the search box: ricci [then press enter].
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