American Civil Rights Movement. Benjamin Hooks, 1987
Description
Produced for the U.S. Information Agency's Worldnet Today television series, this 1987 episode spotlights Dr. Benjamin Lawson Hooks, executive director of the NAACP, who discusses the continuing evolution of the American civil rights movement, the ebb and flow of discrimination in the United States, the NAACP's contributions to racial equality via the American legal system, and the effects of Martin Luther King, Jr., on the civil rights movement.
Runtime
49 min
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Date of Publication
[2012], c2009
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102638&xtid=48810
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