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I am somebody / the American Foundation on Nonviolence presents ; executive producer, Moe Foner ; produced and directed by Madeline Anderson.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969.
- Hospitals--Employees--Labor unions--South Carolina--Charleston.
- Hospitals.
- African Americans--Civil rights--South Carolina--Charleston.
- African Americans.
- Women--Employment--South Carolina--Charleston.
- Women.
- Women--Employment.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Hospitals--Employees--Labor unions.
- Charleston (S.C.)--Race relations.
- Charleston (S.C.).
- South Carolina--Charleston.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (30 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, N.Y.] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2014]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Live film coverage of a successful hospital workers' strike in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1969. Shows the crucial help of Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Coretta Scott King in organizing demonstrations in support of the workers, mostly black women. Includes interviews with city officials and strikers.
- Credits:
- Film editor, Madeline Anderson ; cameramen, Don Hunstein, Roland Mitchell.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced in 1970.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 23, 2014).
- Publisher Number:
- if-iams Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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