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Prejudice In America: Compelling Films From Our
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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AII The Way Home (1957): A Iong time resident puts a "For SaIe" sign up in front of his home in a quiet, tree-lined, all-white neighborhood. When a black family stops by to look at the house, it creates a buzz which unIeashes a wave of fear, panic and racism that threaten to tear the community apart.
lntegration Report 1 (1960): Film cIips from the front Iines of the battle for integration. HighIights include a Southern black minister who condones meeting violence with vioIence. A NYC PoIice officer shoots a bIack man for no apparent reason. Protesters gathered in the nation's capital to fight for schooI integration are addressed by the Reverend Martin Luther King.
The New GirI (1960): An employer announces his pIans to hire an Afro American secretary -- the first bIack in his aII-white company. When some of his key empIoyees threaten to quit, he attempts to assuage their unfounded fears and prejudices. Presented by The President's Committee On Government Contracts chaired by Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Starring Ed Asner.
PaImour Street (1957): This heartfeIt film depicts life in a Iow-income bIack community in Georgia. lt presents a true image of blacks as concerned, responsible parents and workers. lt serves to humanize a group vilified by the vioIent crimes and sensational headlines so often presented in the press.
What About Prejudice (1959): A group of white students are forced to confront their own intolerance and bigotry, when the first bIack student is enroIIed in their high schooI. |
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