OCEAN CITY — A 92-year-old Salisbury woman who in the 1950s dated a young Martin Luther King, Jr. and studied voice with Coretta Scott King — before the couple ever met — will be a featured guest at this Saturday’s MLK festivities at the Ocean City Center for the Arts.
Their relationship is the subject of a new film, “The Boston Photograph,” to be shown Saturday at the Arts Center at 3:30 p.m.
“I look forward to sharing what I remember about them before they were a couple, entered the world stage, and became household names,” La Verne Weston Briddell Eagleson said.
Directed by Clennon L. King, this film screening is part of a free open house reception on Jan. 14, 3-5 p.m. at the Ocean City Center for the Arts, 502 94th St. bayside, and the public is invited. The open house, hosted by the Art League of Ocean City, honors the birthday of the civil rights leader and also Berlin native Rev. Dr. Charles Tindley. In addition to “The Boston Photograph,” three other films related to civil rights will be shown, including one that pays tribute to Tindley, the musical composer largely responsible for the anthem, “We Shall Overcome,” which became the soundtrack of the movement Dr. King led.
La Verne Eagleson was a music student in Boston when she became friendly with and dated MLK. She also attended classes at the New England Conservatory with Coretta Scott, who would later marry Martin. The film was inspired by a photograph of Martin and Coretta taken with La Verne and her first husband, Rev. David Briddell, that had been packed away until La Verne’s granddaughter, Syeeda, heard about it and asked to take it to show-and-tell at school. Rev. David Bridell passed away in Feb. 2022 in Berlin. Eagleson still has her health at 92.
Hold up…. cans i use my EBT CARD to get in da place ?*?
Sounds like another Democrat money grab.
Please, think for just a second. How much cash do you honestly think a FREE screening of a short documentary is going to “grab”? If anything, this filmmaker is losing money on this project. You idiots have no sense of logic. Go back to huffing gas.
It’s called a “loss leader” 9:28. They lose a little for this event but then get grants from Soros and Zuckerberg, and tax grants and benefits that come out of American citizens’ pockets. If you knew anything about business you would know this is how the “civil rights” grift is done. Just ask Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. Now who’s the idiot?
I work in the film industry. Documentary shorts simply don’t make money. When was the last time you paid to sit in a theater and watch a series of documentary shorts? Have you ever? Do you seriously think the almighty, super scary Soros and Zuckerberg are keeping their eye on niche, one day, documentary short screenings in the off season in Ocean City, Maryland? You’re still the idiot.