Tuesday, 25 August 2009 20:17
Road to Brown
DVD, 47 min., 1990
The story of segregation and the brilliant legal assault on it which 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." 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.
The story of segregation and the brilliant legal assault on it which 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." 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.
Category:
African American Studies