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African Americans Civil rights Civil rights movements Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar) 1895-1972 Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Drama Political and social views Religious adherents United States United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.Filter By Subjects
African Americans Civil rights Civil rights movements Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar) 1895-1972 Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Drama Political and social views Religious adherents United States United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.Summary: From award-winning director/producer Peter Kunhardt, King in the Wilderness follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968. Drawing on revelatory stories from his inner circle of friends, the film provides a clear window into the civil rights leader's character, showing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KINSummary: This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfolded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CITSummary: Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 323.1196 MLKCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MLKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MLKSummary: Forty years after Martin Luther King's assassination, History takes viewers through the extraordinary life and times of America's civil rights visionary. Go beyond the legend to portray the man, the questions, the myths of Dr. Kings message of today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KINSummary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016