ID #:
91
Film Type:
DVD
Release Date:
1990
Color or BW:
Color and B&W
Description:
Cleveland...Oakland...Brooklyn. Across America, the call for "Black Power" mobilizes communities for change in strikingly different ways as told through the perspectives of Black Panther Party members, teachers, politicians. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes seeks power through the ballot box and becomes the first black mayor of a major city. Tension between citizens, police, and activists gives birth to the Black Panther Party. African-American and Latino residents in Brooklyn elect an inter-racial governing board to control their children's education. THE PROMISED LAND (1967-1968) Economic Equality...Memphis...Assassination. Hear leaders and activists reflect on Martin Luther King Jr's crusade to overcome the fragmenting civil rights movement. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC) organize a multiracial Poor People's March to Washington, D.C. A peaceful protest of striking Memphis sanitation workers ends in tragedy when an assassin's bullet takes King's life. A hundred cities explode in riots and the murder of Robert Kennedy shortly after adds to the darkness.
Keywords:
activists, Black Panther Party, Black Power, bullet takes King's life, Carl Stokes, Civil Rights Movement, first black mayor of a major city, inter-racial governing board, Martin Luther King, Poor People's March to Washington D.C., riots., Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), striking Memphis Sanitation Workers
Volume:
5
Notes:
5 of 7 DVD's.