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Ossie Davis - Wonderful World of Law & Order - part 1
Call Number: CE 056Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Speaking at a literary conference about the need for social action in the streets. A revolutionary message to Black people - a populist folk cultural message protesting segregation. In addition to cruelty, brutality and its murderous nature, segregation can also be depicted as ridiculous and laughable.
Ossie Davis - Wonderful World of Law & Order - part 2
Call Number: CE 057Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Speaking at a literary conference about the need for social action in the streets. A revolutionary message to Black people - a populist folk cultural message protesting segregation. In addition to cruelty, brutality and its murderous nature, segregation can also be depicted as ridiculous and laughable.
Ann Braden: Southern Patriot
Date: 1/1/2012Call Number: V 663Format: DVDProducers: Appalshop Films - Anne Lewis, Mimi PickeringCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader. Braden was hailed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail as a white southerner whose rejection of her segregationist upbringing was “eloquent and prophetic. Ostracized as a “red” in the 1950s, she fought for an inclusive movement community and mentored three generations of social justice advocates. Braden’s story explores not only the dangers of racism and political repression but also the power of a woman’s life spent in commitment to social justice.
Freedom Bound
Call Number: V 728Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Freedom Bound tells the story of the SNCC voter registration campaign in Mississippi in 1963. Through interviews with poor black farmers who risked everything to register to vote, the film conveys the courage, determination and sacrifice which the common people of the South used to help end racial segregation. Containing much of the same interviews as We'll Never Turn Back, this film features rare footage of SNCC volunteers telling their stories of crossing the color line in rural Mississippi.
We'll Never Turn Back
Call Number: V 729Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
We'll Never Turn Back was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous voter registration drives of that era. Appearing in the film are Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaders Bob Moses and Julian Bond, as well as local civil rights leaders Curtis Hayes, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe. There are interviews with black farmers and share croppers, including Fannie Lou Hamer, on their experiences (often bloody) trying to register to vote.
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