Documentary Institute receives second Barnouw Award

May 8, 2006

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The teachers and filmmakers who make up the College of Journalism’s Documentary Institute — Sandra Dickson, Churchill Roberts, Cindy Hill and Cara Pilson — recently received their second Erik Barnouw Award.

They received the Organization of American Historians 2006 Erik Barnouw Award for their civil rights era documentary, “Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power.” They won their first Barnouw award in 2001 for another civil rights era documentary, “Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore.” PBS aired both documentaries on its national schedule.

The Barnouw Award is given for outstanding reporting or programming on network or cable television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history, and/or the promotion of history.

Members of the Organization of American Historians include college and university professors, students, precollegiate teachers, archivists, museum curators and other public historians employed in government and the private sector.