2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow the Footage of Bernie Sanders Being Arrested in 1963 Was Discovered
The venerable Chicago filmmakers' new doc about the public school boycott has been 50 years in the making.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/how-the-footage-of-bernie-sanders-being-arrested-in-1963-was-discovered-by-kartemquin-films-20160222
femmedem
(8,204 posts)Loved this quote:
"The people leading the protests were not famous, and no one thought any of the students supporting them would ever be running for president. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr later said that he decided to come to Chicago in 1966 (the first northern expansion of his protests in the south) because of the success of Chicagos school desegregation demonstrations in 1963-1965."
kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Should be taught in the history books, as well as mentioned on television.
Thank goodness for femmedem and DU.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)The attacks on his civil rights record by some partisan Clinton supporters are depraved and scurrilous.
kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)had failed, and why, the RW propaganda would not have caught on.
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride!"
Kudos to these filmmakers!
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)Thank you for posting this. They also had a link to the films website that has some fascinating information.
http://63boycott.kartemquin.com/blog/