New Film Shows Real-Time, Inside Account of the University of Missouri Student Protests

This article accompanies release of theField of Visionfilm Concerned Student 1950, directed by University of Missouri students Adam Dietrich, Varun Bajaj, and Kellan Marvin.

IN NOVEMBER 2015, student protests at the Universityof Missouri (“Mizzou”) became a leading national news story. Led by a group of African-American students calling itself“Concerned Student 1950,” the campus protests were triggered by a series of racist incidents — including the university’s African-American student body...