HCAS History Student Wins First Place in Undergraduate Student Symposium Film Competition

Janay Joseph, a junior History major in the Department of Humanities and Politics here at NSU, recently took First Place in the Undergraduate Student Symposium’s Film Competition. Her film: “She Had a Dream: Eula Johnson’s Fight to Desegregate Broward County” was inspired by her internship with History Fort Lauderdale. “She Had a Dream” is a historical documentary about Eula Johnson, a Civil Rights Activist in South Florida, and her involvement in a series of protests called the “Wade-Ins” to protest segregated beaches in Fort Lauderdale. With the upcoming 60th Anniversary of the Wade-Ins, this short documentary follows Johnson’s planning and execution of the protests as well as the racial backlash she received due to her actions. The documentary is narrated by Johnson in her own words using archived audio from one of her talks to the community in 1988. This is paired with images from historical archives, and interviews from local historians.