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Genre/Form: | Documentary films Documentaries and Factual Films Biography Biographical films Biographies Feature films Historical films History Nonfiction films Documentaires Films autres que de fiction |
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Named Person: | Charles Hamilton Houston; Charles Hamilton Houston |
Material Type: | Videorecording |
Document Type: | Visual material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William A Elwood; Mykola Kulish; Larry Adelman; Gary Weimberg; Larry Daressa; Steven A Jones; California Newsreel (Firm); University of Virginia. |
ISBN: | 9781572541191 1572541199 |
OCLC Number: | 54506917 |
Notes: | This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives. Originally produced as a documentary film in 1990. |
Credits: | Camera, Brad Shapiro ; editors, Gary Weimberg, Yasha Aginsky ; narrator, Steven Anthony Jones. |
Performer(s): | Narrator, Steven Anthony Jones. |
Description: | 1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
Details: | DVD-R. |
Contents: | Opening credits & prologue -- Plessy and the era of Jim Crow -- The man who would kill Jim Crow -- The strategy unfolds -- Final groundwork -- Brown v. Board of Education -- The road from Brown -- Credits. |
Responsibility: | a film from California Newsreel ; a presentation of the University of Virginia ; executive producer, William Elwood ; produced and directed by Mykola Kulish ; written by William Elwood, Larry Adelman, Gary Weimberg, Larry Daressa, Mykola Kulish. |
Abstract:
Presents the role of Charles Hamilton Houston in the cases which led to the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education. Gives a history of segregation, Jim Crow laws, the NAACP and biographical information on persons influential in the desegregation movement.
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