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Item Nr: DVD 2853 Title: March: The Story of the Greatest March in American History
Grade Lvl: JS Author:
Length: 60 Prod/Pub: Smoking Dogs Films
Copyright: 2013 Series:
Book Type: Biographee:
Copies: 0 Loan Period: 10 days
 
  Documentary narrated by Denzel Washington explores the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his stirring "I Have a Dream" speech. Considers this civil rights event from a more personal point of view. Viewers are introduced to A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin who advocated for nonviolent mass action and together with Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the march. Uses archival video footage (of the late 1950s & early 1960s) and interviews with the March organizers and participants. IL 9-12.

  Subjects:
  26 - AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  58 - AMERICA--HISTORY/AMERICAN
  306 - CIVIL RIGHTS
  102 - DVD
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  911 - RACE RELATIONS/RACISM
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES
  1125 - U.S.--HISTORY--1953-1961
  1126 - U.S.--HISTORY--1961-1969