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The Black press: soldiers without swords
- Title
- The Black press: soldiers without swords / directed by Stanley Nelson.
- Publication
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], [200-?]
- Supplementary Content
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual DVD-1886 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Presents a history of African-American newspapers and journalism from the mid-19th century through the 20th century. Tells of the struggles against censorship and discrimination and for freedom of the press, with commentary by historians, journalists, and photojournalists.
- Alternative Title
- Soldiers without swords
- Subjects
- Nonfiction films
- African American journalists > Interviews
- Black press (Television program)
- African American press > History
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Racism > United States > History
- United States > Race relations > History
- African American newspapers > History
- Feature films
- Documentary films
- Photojournalists > United States > Interviews
- Journalists > United States > Interviews
- African American journalists > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Note
- Originally produced in 1998.
- Credits (note)
- Screenwriters, Jill Nelson, Stanley Nelson, Lou Potter, Marcia Smith ; producer, Stanely Nelson ; cinematographers, Bobby Shepard, Rick Butler ; editor, Lewis Erskine ; composer, Ron Carter ; Half Nelson Productions, Inc.
- System Details (note)
- DVD-R, NTSC.
- Language (note)
- Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1886
- OCLC
- 781104677
- Title
- The Black press: soldiers without swords / directed by Stanley Nelson.
- Imprint
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], [200-?]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- video
- Type of Carrier
- videodisc
- System Details
- DVD-R, NTSC.
- Performer
- Narrator, Joe Morton.Commentary by historians and journalists: Jane Rhodes, Vernon Jarrett, Phyl Garland, Christopher Reed, James Grossman, Earl Calloway, Patrick Washburn, Timuel Black, Edward Robinson, George Barbour, Robert R. Lavelle, Charles Harris, Vera Jackson, Frank E. Bolden, Edna Chappell McKenzie, John Sengstacke, Evelyn Cunningham.
- Credits
- Screenwriters, Jill Nelson, Stanley Nelson, Lou Potter, Marcia Smith ; producer, Stanely Nelson ; cinematographers, Bobby Shepard, Rick Butler ; editor, Lewis Erskine ; composer, Ron Carter ; Half Nelson Productions, Inc.
- Language
- Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
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- Added Author
- Nelson, Stanley, 1951- film director.Nelson, Jill, 1952- screenwriter.Potter, Lou, screewriter.Smith, Marcia A., screenwriter.Morton, Joe, 1947- narrator.Half Nelson Productions, Inc., production company.California Newsreel (Firm), film distributor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1886