City of Atlanta Issues Proclamation

Whereas, The award-winning documentary “Miss Lil’s Camp” has been selected for screening at the 30th annual Atlanta Film Festival; and,

Whereas, the film subverts metropolitan assumptions about the role that a liberal, white, middle class woman of letters from north Georgia could have created for herself in the struggle to end segregation in the United States, in the middle decades of the 20th century; and

Whereas, Atlanta City Council District 2 is the home district of the City’s most significant Institutions commemorating that struggle, including the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, and

Whereas, Atlanta City Council District 2 has the honor of being the host district for the film festival screening of “Miss Lil’s Camp”;

Now therefore, I, Kwanza Hall, a member of the Atlanta City Council, and on behalf of the City of Atlanta, congratulate filmmakers Suzanne Niedland and Anberin Pasha for their skill and compassion in bringing Lillian Smith’s story to a wide audience, and declare the week of June 12 – June 16, 2006, as “Miss Lil’s Camp” Week in the City of Atlanta.

Signed, Kwanza Hall, Council District 2