Description |
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical mono Dolby Digital rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
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Motion picture. |
System Details |
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital. |
Cast |
Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Cara, Margaret Avery, Roscoe Lee Browne, Laurence Fishburne, Janet MacLachlan, Paul Winfield. |
Credits |
Director of photography, Alan J. Kozlowski ; editor, Harry Keramidas ; music, Gerald Fried. |
Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1983. |
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Widescreen (1.85:1). |
Summary |
Medgar Evers was a former insurance salesman turned field secretary for the NAACP, and who was instrumental in organizing boycotts against discriminating southern white merchants and the desegregation of the University of Mississippi. |
Note |
Based on the book by Mrs. Medgar Evers with William Peters. |
Subject |
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 -- Drama.
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Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963. (OCoLC)fst00318099
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Drama.
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Jackson (Miss.) -- Race relations -- Drama.
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Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography -- Drama.
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
(OCoLC)fst00799575
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Civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00862721
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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Mississippi -- Jackson.
(OCoLC)fst01205500
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Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Biographical films.
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Biographical films. (OCoLC)fst01710277
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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DVD-Video discs.
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Added Author |
Schultz, Michael, 1938- film director.
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Davis, Ossie, screenwriter.
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Rotcop, Ken, screenwriter, film producer.
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Rollins, Howard E., 1950-1996, actor.
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Cara, Irene, 1959-2022 actor.
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Avery, Margaret, actor.
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Browne, Roscoe Lee, actor.
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Kozlowski, Alan, director of photography.
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Keramidas, Harry, editor of moving image work.
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Fried, Gerald, composer.
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Based on: Evers-Williams, Myrlie.
For us, the living.
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Charles Fries Productions, production company.
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Olive Films, publisher.
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Added Title |
Medgar Evers story |
Standard No. |
887090108904 |
Music No. |
OF1089 Olive Films |
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