- Description:
- DVD - Region free.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
- Notes:
- Newly preserved and available together for the first time, these three films by Madeline Anderson bring viewers to the front lines of the fight for civil rights.
Supplemental materials include: an oral history interview with Madeline Anderson; “Celebrate Moe!” a featurette on Moe Foner, the union leader who commissioned I AM SOMEBODY; and a 28-page booklet featuring an interview with Anderson by Rhea L. Combs, PhD.
Titles
+ Integration Report 1
- Director:
- Anderson, Madeline
- Running Time:
- Short.   21 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1960
- Language:
- English language with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Female Directors, African - American Interest, Documentary
- Notes:
- With a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., protest songs sung by Maya Angelou, and footage by Albert Maysles and Ricky Leacock, INTEGRATION REPORT 1 examines the struggle for black equality in Montegomery, Alabama; Brooklyn, New York; and Washington, D.C.
+ Tribute to Malcolm X, A
- Director:
- Anderson, Madeline
- Production Co:
- National Educational Television Network
- Running Time:
- Short.   14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1967
- Language:
- English language with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, African - American Interest, Female Directors
- Notes:
- A short film made for William Greaves’ “Black Journal” that discusses the influence of Malcolm X and includes an interview with his widow, Betty Shabbazz.
+ I Am Somebody
- Director:
- Anderson, Madeline
- Production Co:
- New York’s Drug and Hospital Union
- Running Time:
- Short.   30 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1970
- Language:
- English language with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, African - American Interest, Female Directors
- Notes:
- In 1969, 400 black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina went on strike - only to be confronted by the National Guard. Commissioned by the New York’s Drug and Hospital Union, Local 1199, I AM SOMEBODY features Andrew Young, Charles Abernathy, and Coretta Scott King.