"Transfer Day Perspectives" Distributed To Territory's Middle and High Schools
Date: July 27, 2006 | Press Release: #06-010
The Virgin Islands Humanities Council has distributed DVD and Study Guide copies of an educational documentary titled ?Transfer Day Perspectives? to all public and private middle and high schools, libraries and the University of the Virgin Islands. ?The supplementary material is a valuable teaching tool and will enrich the minds of our young people, explained Mabel J. Maduro, Executive Director.? The documentary examines the on-going struggle of Virgin Islanders to attain full U.S. citizenship and features interviews with eyewitnesses of the 1917 Transfer Day and with legal and political scholars about the present and future options.
This presentation supports the Virgin Islands Humanities Council?s ?We the People? project entitled ?U.S. Virgin Islanders: A People?s Quest for Self- Governance,? and is made possible through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The financial contribution of good corporate and private citizens: Fintrac, an international agribusiness consulting firm, West Indian Co., Ltd., Michael Banzhaf Studio, the Legislature of the Virgin Islands, Mr.& Mrs Leo Sibilly, Mr.& Mrs. Romero Allamani, Mrs. Patricia Jones, Mr. Stephen Jones and Shelley Moorhead made it possible for the copies of the DVD and study guide to be reproduced for distribution to the schools.
?Transfer Day Perspectives? DVD and study guides are available for sale at the V.I. Humanities Council office on St. Thomas and the V.I. Council on the Arts office on St. Croix.
For further information, call the Virgin Islands Humanities Council at 776-4044.