D.C. Couple Donates Film Collection to Three Louisiana Universities

D.C. Couple Donates Film Collection to Three Louisiana Universities: Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., now has its own “silver screen.”

An impressive collection of films about African-Americans is now housed on the campus and will be presented beginning in February to commemorate Black History Month.

The 89 motion pictures, released between 1915 and 1969 and recently converted to DVD from reels, are part of the memorabilia collection of Washington, D.C., toxicologist Dr. Lewis Brown and his wife, environmental chemist Dr. Shamira Brown. The couple met as undergraduates at Dillard University in New Orleans and both earned graduate degrees at Southern.