Movie Night @ the Library: The Killing Floor

Name: Movie Night @ the Library: The Killing Floor
Start: 2025-02-27T18:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-02-27T20:30:00-08:00
Location: 313 8th Ave SE, Olympia, WA, United States, Washington 98501

Schedule

Thu Feb 27 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

313 8th Ave SE, Olympia, WA, United States, Washington 98501 | Olympia, WA

Join us at the Library for a special after-hours screening of The Killing Floor, which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the Chicago race riot of 1919.
Check out this piece published by Criterion for some background on the film: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7287-love-s-labors-the-killing-floor-illuminates-the-dream-of-an-interracial-workers-movement?srsltid=AfmBOopwnuA_rto-Ts3Ma0aMKXLitXvgp_mC0ldODcFayWnPJkFPzh6H
(Some spoilers there, if that's important to you.)