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American Experience: 1964, Season 26, Episode 2, Interview with Leah Wright Rigueur, Historian
directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017 and Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, WGBH Boston, in American Experience: 1964, Season 26, Episode 2 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2014), 34 mins
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning...
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directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017 and Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, WGBH Boston, in American Experience: 1964, Season 26, Episode 2 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2014), 34 mins
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It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time — Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, J...
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time — Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barry Goldwater, Betty Friedan — and brings out from the shadows the actions of ordinary Americans whose frustrations, ambitions and anxieties began to turn the country onto a new and different course.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017, Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
American Experience: 1964
Person Discussed
Leah Wright Rigueur, fl. 2015, Fannie Lou Hamer, 1918-1977, Jackie Robinson, 1919-1972, Barry Goldwater, 1909-1998
Topic / Theme
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Voting rights, Social movements, Politics, Segregation, Civil rights, Political and Social Movements, Race and Gender, Politics & Policy, History, Americans, African Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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© 2014-2017 WGBH Educational Foundation
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Melvin and Jean: An American Story
directed by Maia Wechsler, fl. 1993-2012; composed by Brandon Ross, fl. 2004; produced by Matthieu Belghiti, fl. 1998 and Maia Wechsler, fl. 1993-2012 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2012), 1 hour
This video is a poignant tale of two people, the radical 60s, crime in the name of a cause, and second chances. The documentary follows Melvin and Jean McNair from revolt and exile to renewal and reconciliation. As a young couple in 1972, the McNairs made news when they hijacked a plane from Detroit to Algeria to...
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directed by Maia Wechsler, fl. 1993-2012; composed by Brandon Ross, fl. 2004; produced by Matthieu Belghiti, fl. 1998 and Maia Wechsler, fl. 1993-2012 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2012), 1 hour
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This video is a poignant tale of two people, the radical 60s, crime in the name of a cause, and second chances. The documentary follows Melvin and Jean McNair from revolt and exile to renewal and reconciliation. As a young couple in 1972, the McNairs made news when they hijacked a plane from Detroit to Algeria to join the international section of the Black Panthers. Simultaneously an act of political resistance to racism and the Vietnam War and a...
This video is a poignant tale of two people, the radical 60s, crime in the name of a cause, and second chances. The documentary follows Melvin and Jean McNair from revolt and exile to renewal and reconciliation. As a young couple in 1972, the McNairs made news when they hijacked a plane from Detroit to Algeria to join the international section of the Black Panthers. Simultaneously an act of political resistance to racism and the Vietnam War and an act of desperation committed by two young people who saw no other way to escape the constant state of racial oppression in the US, the controversial act continues to have long-term repercussions decades later. After serving several years in prison in France for the hijacking, the McNairs remained in France and, for 35 years, have lived as model citizens in their adopted country. Forty years after the fact, the two are still coming to terms with their crime and its lifelong consequences as they try to gain the freedom to return home without spending the rest of their lives behind bars in America.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Matthieu Belghiti, fl. 1998, Maia Wechsler, fl. 1993-2012
Author / Creator
Brandon Ross, fl. 2004, Maia Wechsler, fl. 1993-2012
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Person Discussed
George Wright, 1943-, James McNair, fl. 2012, Jean McNair, fl. 1972-2012, Melvin McNair, 1949-
Topic / Theme
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Political causes, Crime, History, Politics & Policy, Latinos, African Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2013. Used by permission of Filmakers Library.
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They Were There: Remembering The Civil Rights Movement
presented by Jim Lehrer, 1934-; produced by MacNeil-Lehrer Productions (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions, 2010), 1 hour 12 mins
Frontline figures in the Civil Rights Movement reflect on their experiences, their colleagues, and where America now stands on the issue of race in a series of NewsHour conversations and discussions. Included are conversations with Dorothy Height, Vernon Jordan, and John Lewis about their memoirs and remembrances...
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presented by Jim Lehrer, 1934-; produced by MacNeil-Lehrer Productions (Arlington, VA: NewsHour Productions, 2010), 1 hour 12 mins
Description
Frontline figures in the Civil Rights Movement reflect on their experiences, their colleagues, and where America now stands on the issue of race in a series of NewsHour conversations and discussions. Included are conversations with Dorothy Height, Vernon Jordan, and John Lewis about their memoirs and remembrances of the March on Washington, Rosa Parks, and Hamilton Holmes. This collection also features a 1997 interview with Ruby Bridges, who in 1...
Frontline figures in the Civil Rights Movement reflect on their experiences, their colleagues, and where America now stands on the issue of race in a series of NewsHour conversations and discussions. Included are conversations with Dorothy Height, Vernon Jordan, and John Lewis about their memoirs and remembrances of the March on Washington, Rosa Parks, and Hamilton Holmes. This collection also features a 1997 interview with Ruby Bridges, who in 1960, at 6-years old, became the first African American child to desegregate an elementary school.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
MacNeil-Lehrer Productions
Author / Creator
Jim Lehrer, 1934-
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
NewsHour Productions
Speaker / Narrator
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, 1942-
Person Discussed
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, 1942-, Joseph Lowery, 1921-, Eleanor Holmes Norton, 1937-, Dorothy Height, 1912-2010, Vernon Jordan, Jr., 1935-, John Lewis, 1940-, Rosa Parks, 1913-2005, Ruby Bridges, 1954-, Hamilton E. Holmes, 1941-1995
Topic / Theme
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Women's rights, Social activism and activists, Segregation, Race relations, Race and culture, U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-, Rosa Parks Arrested, Montgomery, AL, December 1, 1955, Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963, Politics & Policy, History, African Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2010 NewsHour Productions
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