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Out of obscurity

Details a little-known chapter in civil rights history. In 1939 five young men staged what is believed to be the nation's first sit-in at a public library just outside Washington, DC, to protest the "separate, but equal" treatment of African-Americans. Includes a dramatization of the 1939 sit-in and a look at the role of local civil rights activist Samuel Wilbert Taylor

VHS Video, English, [1999?]
California Newsreel, San Francisco, CA, [1999?]