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The road to Brown / a film from California Newsreel ; a presentation of the University of Virginia.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950.
- Houston, Charles Hamilton.
- African American lawyers--Biography.
- African American lawyers.
- African Americans--Civil rights--United States.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--United States.
- Discrimination in education.
- Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States.
- Segregation in education.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (58 min.).
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on original container: Untold story of the man who killed Jim Crow
- Man who killed Jim Crow
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1990.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Presents the role of Charles Hamilton Houston in the cases which let to the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education. Gives background history of segregation, Jim Crow laws, NAACP and bio-data on persons influential in the desegregation movement.
- Notes:
- "PBS version"--Original container.
- OCLC:
- 823895461
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