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The road to Brown

William A. Elwood (Film producer, Screenwriter), Mykola Kulish (Film producer, Film director, Screenwriter), Larry Adelman (Screenwriter), Gary Weimberg (Screenwriter), Larry Daressa (Screenwriter), Steven A. Jones (Narrator), California Newsreel (Firm), University of Virginia
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
DVD Video, English, [2004?]
California Newsreel [distributor], San Francisco, Calif., [2004?]
Documentaries and Factual Films
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
9781572541191, 1572541199
54506917
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
This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives
Originally produced as a documentary film in 1990
Narrator, Steven Anthony Jones.
Camera, Brad Shapiro ; editors, Gary Weimberg, Yasha Aginsky ; narrator, Steven Anthony Jones.