- Introducing award-winning Executive Writer, Independent Filmmaker, director/producer James Theres, retired program coordinator/interviewer Alva Moore Stevenson, and Accounting Coordinator Rosenda Moore.
- The documentary The SixTripleEight (2019) and the soldiers in the unit
- A conversation with the daughters of one of the soldiers in the unit
- The special recognitions the soldiers have received.
James Theres
James is an award-winning Executive Writer at the National Cemetery Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington D.C. He has received 10 Veterans Affairs national awards for speech writing, feature writing, event planning and media affairs. As an independent filmmaker, he has written, directed, and produced three documentary films, The 30th of May (2016), The Hello Girls (2018), and The SixTripleEight (2019). His films have received over 40 filmmaking awards and have appeared on Mississippi, Kansas, and Wisconsin Public Television; and on national PBS.
In 2019, for his documentary The Hello Girls, James received the prestigious Daughters of American Revolution (DAR) Media and Entertainment Award, and a Special Recognition Award from the U.S. Army Women’s Foundation. On November 11, 2018, the 100th anniversary of the WWI Armistice, James screened The Hello Girls in Chaumont, France, the former headquarters of General John J. Pershing and the American Expeditionary Force (AEF). His next film, The SixTripleEight, received a Special Recognition Award from the Congressional Black Caucus. In May 2019, the SixTripleEight screened throughout the UK at the invitation of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of James, Robert Wood Johnson.
His work has screened at film festivals in the United States, England, India, South America and Taiwan; and at public institutions such as the Women in Military Service to America (WIMSA) museum, the National Archives in Washington D.C., National WWI Museum in Kansas City, National WWII Museum in New Orleans, the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Mo, and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta, Ga.
The SixTripleEight and The Hello Girls documentaries have inspired Congress to submit legislation for both groups of women to receive the Congressional Gold Medal.
More information: https://lincolnpennyfilms.com
Alva Moore Stevenson
Alva is a retired program coordinator and interviewer in UCLA Library Special Collections and Center for Oral History Research. Her 37-year career focused on collections and oral histories related to African Americans in Los Angeles. In addition her research interests are the history of Blacks in Mexico and the historical and genealogical connections between Afro Mexicans and African Americans.
Rosenda Moore
Rosenda is Accounting Coordinator for the Finance Dept at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, for the past 30 years, focused on recording of income, expenses, record-keeping, document research, for an organization with a multi-million-dollar budget, representing a world-renowned art collection spanning from 1940’s – through today’s emerging artists.
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