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For us, the living : the Medgar Evers story
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Medgar Evers was a former insurance salesman turned field secretary for the NAACP, and who was instrumental in organizing boycotts against discriminating southern white merchants and the desegregat...
Medgar Evers was a former insurance salesman turned field secretary for the NAACP, and who was instrumental in organizing boycotts against discriminating southern white merchants and the desegregation of the University of Mississippi.
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- Creator
- directed by Michael Schultz ; screenplay by Ossie Davis and J. Kenneth Rotcop ; produced by J. Kenneth Rotcop ; Charles Fries Productions
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Schultz, Michael, 1938- film director
- Davis, Ossie, screenwriter
- Rotcop, Ken, screenwriter, film producer
- Rollins, Howard E., 1950-1996, actor
- Cara, Irene, 1959-2022, actor
- Avery, Margaret, actor
- Browne, Roscoe Lee, actor
- Kozlowski, Alan, director of photography
- Keramidas, Harry, editor of moving image work
- Fried, Gerald, composer
- Evers-Williams, Myrlie. For us, the living
- Charles Fries Productions
- Olive Films
- Publication
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- Chicago, IL : Olive Films, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- digital optical mono Dolby Digital
- video file DVD video
- OCLC
- ocn919095588
- Credits
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- Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Cara, Margaret Avery, Roscoe Lee Browne, Laurence Fishburne, Janet MacLachlan, Paul Winfield
- Director of photography, Alan J. Kozlowski ; editor, Harry Keramidas ; music, Gerald Fried
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.
- Widescreen (1.85:1).
- Based on the book by Mrs. Medgar Evers with William Peters.
- DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital.