01 Jan 2004
Home of the Brave
Documentary on the civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered in 1965 as she campaigned for black suffrage in Selma, Alabama, and its effect on her family.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.
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James Baldwin David Baldwin 
Amiri Baraka Self
Sterling Brown Self
David Dennis Self
Hoyt Fuller Self
Oretha Castle Haley Self
Lonnie King Self
Amanda Bowens Perdew Self
Charles Sherrod Self
Fred Lee Shuttlesworth Self
Hosea Williams Self
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