The Resource The road to Brown, (online streaming)
The road to Brown, (online streaming)
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The item The road to Brown, (online streaming) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- The road to Brown tells the story of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling as the culmination of a brilliant legal assault on segregation that launched the Civil Rights movement. It is also a moving and long overdue tribute to a visionary but little known black lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, "the man who killed Jim Crow." The road to Brown plunges us into the nightmare world of Jim Crow that robbed former slaves of the rights granted by the 14th and 15th Amendments. Under the "separate but equal" doctrine of the Supreme Court's 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, black citizens were denied the right to vote, to attend white schools, to get sick in white hospitals or to be buried in white cemeteries. Those who objected were liable to be lynched. Charles Houston, the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, dean of Howard University Law School and chief counsel to the NAACP, launched a number of precedent-setting cases leading up to Brown v. Board of Education. He strategically targeted segregated education as the key to undermining the entire Jim Crow system. Interviews with his associates recount how Houston, eschewing the limelight himself, energized a generation of black jurists including future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to wage the struggle against segregation. He taught: "A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society." Houston died of a heart attack in 1950, just four years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision validated his strategy. In a moving climax, the film recapitulates the arguments before the Court, Justice Warren's opinion striking down Plessy, and the jubilant reactions of black America. Other legal victories followed. But Charles Houston had warned, There's a difference between law on the books and the law in action. We witness how it was the civil rights movement, organized in the wake of Brown, that gave teeth to the new laws. Moving from slavery to civil rights, The road to Brown provides a concise history of how African-Americans finally won full legal equality under the Constitution. Its depiction of the interplay between race, law and history adds a crucial dimension to courses in U.S. History, Black Studies, Constitutional Law, Law & Society, Social Movements and Government. It opens up a discussion of the true significance of the Brown v. Board decision on the path towards racial equality. The example of Charles Houston's persistence and determination will inspire today's students to take America further down the long road to social justice. Chapter Listing: 1. Opening Credits & Prologue. 2. Plessy and the Era of Jim Crow. 3. The Man Who Would Kill Jim Crow. 4. The Strategy Unfolds. 5. Final Groundwork. 6. Brown vs. Board of Education. 7. The Road from Brown. 8. Credits
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 min.)
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Label
- The road to Brown
- Title
- The road to Brown
- Subject
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- African American lawyers -- United States
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States
- African Americans -- Segregation -- United States
- trueCivil rights workers -- United States
- Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- United States
- trueDocumentary films
- Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950
- trueSegregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The road to Brown tells the story of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling as the culmination of a brilliant legal assault on segregation that launched the Civil Rights movement. It is also a moving and long overdue tribute to a visionary but little known black lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, "the man who killed Jim Crow." The road to Brown plunges us into the nightmare world of Jim Crow that robbed former slaves of the rights granted by the 14th and 15th Amendments. Under the "separate but equal" doctrine of the Supreme Court's 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, black citizens were denied the right to vote, to attend white schools, to get sick in white hospitals or to be buried in white cemeteries. Those who objected were liable to be lynched. Charles Houston, the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, dean of Howard University Law School and chief counsel to the NAACP, launched a number of precedent-setting cases leading up to Brown v. Board of Education. He strategically targeted segregated education as the key to undermining the entire Jim Crow system. Interviews with his associates recount how Houston, eschewing the limelight himself, energized a generation of black jurists including future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to wage the struggle against segregation. He taught: "A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society." Houston died of a heart attack in 1950, just four years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision validated his strategy. In a moving climax, the film recapitulates the arguments before the Court, Justice Warren's opinion striking down Plessy, and the jubilant reactions of black America. Other legal victories followed. But Charles Houston had warned, There's a difference between law on the books and the law in action. We witness how it was the civil rights movement, organized in the wake of Brown, that gave teeth to the new laws. Moving from slavery to civil rights, The road to Brown provides a concise history of how African-Americans finally won full legal equality under the Constitution. Its depiction of the interplay between race, law and history adds a crucial dimension to courses in U.S. History, Black Studies, Constitutional Law, Law & Society, Social Movements and Government. It opens up a discussion of the true significance of the Brown v. Board decision on the path towards racial equality. The example of Charles Houston's persistence and determination will inspire today's students to take America further down the long road to social justice. Chapter Listing: 1. Opening Credits & Prologue. 2. Plessy and the Era of Jim Crow. 3. The Man Who Would Kill Jim Crow. 4. The Strategy Unfolds. 5. Final Groundwork. 6. Brown vs. Board of Education. 7. The Road from Brown. 8. Credits
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- videorecording
- Date time place
- Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1990
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- 57
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- Houston, Charles Hamilton
- Discrimination in education
- Segregation in education
- African Americans
- African American lawyers
- African Americans
- Civil rights workers
- Documentary films
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- live action
- Label
- The road to Brown, (online streaming)
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- Title from title frames
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- kan1062805
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- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 min.)
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- Label
- The road to Brown, (online streaming)
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
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-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- kan1062805
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 min.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher number
- 1062805
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)956892718
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
Subject
- African American lawyers -- United States
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States
- African Americans -- Segregation -- United States
- trueCivil rights workers -- United States
- Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- United States
- trueDocumentary films
- Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950
- trueSegregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States
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