Black Voices: Jessie Maple Day
E. Danielle Butler gave a presentation about Jessie Maple Patton, the first Black female director and camera operator to be inducted into New York Camera Operator’s Union. In addition to her presentation, Ja Quita Joy Roberts, the Finance and Office Administrator at the Black Film Center & Archive secured a proclamation from Kerry Thomson, mayor of Bloomington, declaring Feb. 1 as “Mrs. Jessie Maple Patton Day.”