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Title:

The Vernon Johns story [videorecording] : the road to freedom / produced by Mitchell Galin, David R. Kappes ; teleplay by Kevin Arkadie ; story by Leslie Lee and Kevin Arkadie ; directed by Kenneth Fink.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

Hollywood International DVD,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Johns, Vernon,--1892-1965--Drama.
Johns, Vernon,--1892-1965--Drama.
African American clergy--Montgomery--Montgomery--Drama.
African American civil rights workers--Montgomery--Montgomery--Drama.
African Americans--Civil rights--Montgomery--Montgomery--Drama.
African American clergy--Montgomery--Montgomery--Drama.
African American civil rights workers--Montgomery--Montgomery--Drama.
African Americans--Civil rights--Montgomery--Montgomery--Drama.
Made-for-TV movies.
Television plays, American.
Biographical--Television feature.
Television plays.

Other Authors:

Galin, Mitchell.
Kappes, David R.
Arkadie, Kevin.
Lee, Leslie.
Fink, Kenneth.
Jones, James Earl.
Alice, Mary, 1941-
Hollies, Tommy.
Houston, Cissy.
James, Clifton, 1921-
Leach, Nicole.
Seneca, Joe.
Hollywood International DVD (Firm)

Notes:

Title from container. Originally broadcast as a made-for-TV movie in 1994. James Earl Jones, Mary Alice, Tommy Hollies, Cissy Houston, Clifton James, Nicole Leach, Joe Seneca.

Summary:

The true story of Reverend Vernon Johns, the leader of a black congregation in Montgomery, Alabama in the early 1950s, and one of the earliest voices in the Civil Rights Movement.

Series:

True story collection

ISBN:

9781598373950
1598373951

OCLC:

(OCoLC)79834546

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)