“Dare Not Walk Alone,” an indie film detailing the story of St. Augustine, Fl., in 1964, a monumental year in the civil rights movement, will be shown tonight in the Hughes-Trigg Theater at 7 as part of the MLK Week events.

The film, released in 2006, has been called a “most gritty version of Civil Rights history” and shows the viewer a glimpse into Dr. King’s non-violent campaign.

With film clips from St. Augustine in 1963 and 1964 mixed with clips from those involved in civil rights today, the film stresses the importance of the nonviolent tactics Dr. King and his followers took directly before the passage of America’s first civil rights act.

Director Jeremy Dean says that though most documentaries on the civil rights movement end with the passage of these acts, he wanted to show that inequalities still exist today.

“I really want it to connect to this post-civil rights generation; people our age who are disconnected from it and don’t know these stories, but if they’re honest with themselves and they look around, they can still see issues and inequality,” Dean says. “So it’s trying to connect the dots.”

Since its original release, “Dare Not Walk Alone” has become a project that encourages film screenings and dialogue through blogs and other sources.

Several Web sites have been created to allow viewers to comment on the film. “To be reminded of the prices so many paid, and also challenged by what is still to be done, has been an overwhelming experience,” says one viewer.

The project as a whole attempts to bring attention to the activities of St. Augustine as they relate to the passage of the first civil rights act. While many view Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the 1963 march on Washington and the church bombing in Birmingham as the events that led to the passage of these acts, the project hopes to tell the story of events that many of us don’t know about.

The actual events that the film focuses on are those of June 18, 1964, when the owner of a “Whites Only” hotel poured acid into the swimming pool where blacks and whites had integrated. A few days earlier Dr. King had been arrested for trying to enter the restaurant at the same hotel while Andrew Young, one of Dr. King’s principal lieutenants, had been beaten during a protest march in St. Augustine.

Dean highlights these events by interviewing the owner of the hotel as well as Andrew Young.

The film is said to tie the events of the civil rights movement to current events in hopes that we continue to change racial inequalities of the future.