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The Sara Spencer Washington Story User Submitted

When: Sat., June 17, 6-8 p.m. 2017
Phone: 770.369.3776
Email: www.sfbff.org
Price: $10
www.sswmovie.com
The Sara Spencer Washington Story- Award winning documentary to screen as part of the San Francisco Black Film Festival. Interviewees recall the life of a black woman who parlayed her hair products line into a million dollar empire which employed tens of thousands of black women from the depression and beyond World War II. Her Atlantic City, New Jersey based Apex Hair and News Company provided a means political activism and philanthropy at a time when it was greatly needed in America.

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