Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
Eyes on the prize. Vol. 7, The keys to the kingdom (1974-1980) ; Back to the movement(1979-1985) [videorecording] : America's civil rights movement / Blackside ; [creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton].
Call Number:
323.1 E DVD V.7
Edition:
Full screen.
Publisher, Date:
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [2006]
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
The keys to the kingdom (1974-1980) : Famous and lesser-known participants recount the remedies used to solve the problems of discrimination in schools and the workplace. For blacks and whites in Boston, court-ordered busing proves an unpopular means of integrating schools. Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson pursues affirmative action to help combat the city's poverty rate. The Bakke Supreme Court case challenges affirmative action when a white man sues a university on grounds of "reverse discrimination". -- container.
Back to the movement (1979-1985) : Experience the power and powerlessness felt in black communities during the movement's third decade through firsthand knowledge and stories. Miami's Overtown section explodes in rioting when a young black salesman dies after being beaten by police for a traffic violation. Democratic reformers install Harold Washington as Chicago's first black mayor. America's most-watched documentary on civil rights ends with a look back at the courageous people that made the movement a force for hope and social change. -- container.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: PG.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Suffrage -- History -- 20th century.
Segregation -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights demonstrations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights -- United States.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Closed caption DVDs.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:
Hampton, Henry, 1940-1998.
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
Blackside, Inc.
PBS Video.
Other Title:
America's civil rights movement (1979-1985)
Keys to the kingdom (1974-1980)
American experience (Television program)
Contents:
The keys to the kingdom (1974-1980) ; Back to the movement(1979-1985).
ISBN:
079369261X
9780793692613