Historian's Book-Turned-Documentary Premieres on PBS

Rutgers University | In 2014, RU-N History Professor Ruth Feldstein published an award-winning book on the impact of six Black female performers on the Civil Rights and second-wave feminist movements. The next year, she was approached by various people interested in optioning her work for a documentary film. On Monday, Martin Luther King Day, PBS’ American Masters series will premiere How It Feels to Be Free, a documentary film based on Feldstein’s book How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press).