The American experience. Simple justice / a production of New Images Productions, Inc. ; directed by Helaine Head ; produced by Yanna Kroyt Brandt; teleplay by John McGreevey ; story by John McGreevey, Avon Kirkland, and Peter Cook.
Publisher:
WETA-TV,
Copyright Date:
1995-01-15
Description:
3 videocassettes of 3 (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. viewing copy. 3 videocassettes of 3 (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. viewing copy (copy 2)
Copyright: reg. unknown. Copyright notice on video: New Images Productions, Inc. ; 1993. Number 508. Based on the book, Simple justice, by Richard Kluger. Source used: The American experience guide from PBS Video in M/B/RS description files. Host: David McCullough. Peter Francis James, James Avery, Andre Braugher, Scott Wentworth, Scott Whitehurst, William Allen Young, Sam Gray.
Summary:
A dramatization of the legal strategy and social struggle that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling against segregated schools. At Howard University, Professor Charles Hamilton Houston trains a cadre of African-American lawyers to fight the legal basis for segregation, the 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. One of his students, Thurgood Marshall, after a series of court cases, finally succeeds in overturning Plessy v. Ferguson. This is the Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which stated that public schools can no longer be segregated.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.