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"Uses the bitter struggle over equal housing rights in Yonkers, New York during the 1980s to show the 'massive resistance' the Civil Rights movement confronted when it moved North"--Container of DVD version.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: California Newsreel (Firm), Kavanagh Productions
Other Authors: Cashin, Sheryll (on-screen participant.), Kavanagh, Bill (Screenwriter), Navazio, Miki (composer (expression)), Stein, Peter, 1943-, Bailey, Donna (Film narrator) (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, California : California Newsreel, [2007]
Subjects:
Civil rights > New York (State) > Yonkers.
Discrimination in housing > New York (State) > Yonkers.
Segregation in education > New York (State) > Yonkers.
Yonkers (N.Y.) > Race relations.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street)
Description
Summary:"Uses the bitter struggle over equal housing rights in Yonkers, New York during the 1980s to show the 'massive resistance' the Civil Rights movement confronted when it moved North"--Container of DVD version.
Item Description:Originally produced as a documentary film in 2007.
Physical Description:1 online resource (53 min., 24 sec.) : sound, color with black and white sequences
Playing Time:00:53:24
Production Credits:Producer and director, Bill Kavanagh ; writer, Bill Kavanagh ; co-director, Sylke Froechtenigt ; drector of photography, Peter Stein ; editors, Sylke Froechtenigt, Kim Chisolm, Mark Ezovski ; composer, Miki Navazio.