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Title:

For us, the living [videorecording (DVD)] : the Medgar Evers story / directed by Michael Schultz ; screenplay by Ossie Davis and Ken Rotcop ; produced by J. Kenneth Rotcop ; Charles Fries Productions.

Format:

[videorecording (DVD)] :

Publisher:

Olive Films,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Evers, Medgar Wiley,--1925-1963--Drama.
African Americans--Civil rights--Jackson--Jackson--Drama.
Jackson (Miss.)--Race relations--Drama.
Civil rights workers--Jackson--Jackson--Drama.--Drama.
Biographical films.

Other Authors:

Schultz, Michael, 1938- film director.
Davis, Ossie, screenwriter.
Rotcop, Ken, film producer. film producer.
Rollins, Howard E., 1950-1996, actor.
Cara, Irene, 1959- actor.
Avery, Margaret, actor.
Browne, Roscoe Lee, actor.
Kozlowski, Alan, director of photography.
Keramidas, Harry, editor of moving image work.
Fried, Gerald, composer.
Charles Fries Productions, production company.
Olive Films, publisher.

Notes:

Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Cara, Margaret Avery, Roscoe Lee Browne, Laurence Fishburne, Janet MacLachlan, Paul Winfield. Originally released as a motion picture in 1983. Widescreen (1.85:1). Based on the book by Mrs. Medgar Evers with William Peters.

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.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)919095588

UPC:

887090108904

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)