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Brick by brick : a civil rights story / produced & directed by Bill Kavanagh ; writer, Bill Kavanagh ; Kavanagh Productions, Inc.
LIBRA DVD 023 240
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in housing--New York (State)--Yonkers.
- Discrimination in housing.
- Segregation in education--New York (State)--Yonkers.
- Segregation in education.
- Civil rights--New York (State)--Yonkers.
- Civil rights.
- Yonkers (N.Y.)--Race relations.
- Yonkers (N.Y.).
- New York (State)--Yonkers.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Standard format.
- Other Title:
- Civil rights story
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, [2007]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD-R; stereo.
- This disc is a DVD Recordable and may not play on all DVD equipment.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Uses the bitter struggle over equal housing rights in Yonkers, New York, during the 1980s to show the 'massive resistance' the Civil Rights movement confronted when it moved North"--Container.
- Contents:
- Beginnings
- Mary Dorman and the Cappellos
- Investigating the case
- Adrean's story
- Pre-trial
- The trial
- Settlement talks
- The decision
- The appeal
- Yonkers in contempt
- Crisis
- Aftermath.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Donna Bailey; featuring Sheryll Cashin, Winston Ross, Herman Keith, Michael Sussman, Nicholas Wasicsko and others.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Peter Stein ; editors, Sylke Froechtenigt, Kim Chisolm, Mark Ezovski ; composer, Miki Navazio.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a documentary film in 2007.
- Special features (61 min.): 5 additional interviews (59 min. total); epilogue (2 min.).
- Includes public performance rights.
- OCLC:
- 259967878
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