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Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story [1] is a 2007 documentary film, produced and directed by Bill Kavanagh. [2] The story follows three Yonkers, New York families from the 1970s to the 1990s as they navigated a protracted and bitter confrontation in the city over housing and school desegregation.
The documentary originally aired on the PBS network, and it also aired in the United Kingdom on BBC2. Created and executive produced by Henry Hampton at his film production company Blackside, and narrated by Julian Bond , the series uses archival footage , stills, and interviews by participants and opponents of the movement.
The white-owned newspapers covered Almond's speech, not as a turning point but as an admission of failure. The Richmond News Leader was a more conservative white paper that emphasized that white leaders were "powerless" in front of federal authority yet still called for massive resistance to shift gears toward minimizing desegregation.
In 2019, 169 out of 209 metropolitan regions in the U.S. were more segregated than in 1990, a new analysis finds
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“People need to know that we’ve come a long way, but we still have to remember where we came from.”
Tia Brown, a 4th grade Chicago Public Schools teacher and mom of three, was born and raised on the city’s West Side, where she and her husband hoped to buy their first home when they began ...
13th is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Ava DuVernay. It explores the prison–industrial complex , and the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States". [ 3 ]