The Road to Brown [videorecording] / a film from California Newsreel ; a presentation of the University of Virginia ; producer/director William Elwood

Published:: San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel [distributor] ; Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia, 1990.
Physical Description:: 1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators:: Elwood, William A., Jones, Steven A., California Newsreel (Firm), and University of Virginia

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Summary:

Tribute to the role of visionary Black lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston in the cases which led to the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. Houston, as chief counsel to the NAACP, launched a number of strategic, precedent-setting cases that targeted segregated education as the key to undermining the Jim Crow system. Gives a history of segregation, Jim Crow Laws, the NAACP, and biographical information on persons influential in the desegregation movement

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This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Participant/Performer Note:

Narrator: Steven Anthony Jones.

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DVD-R.

Terms of Use and Reproduction:

Includes public performance rights.

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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