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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

For us, the living : the Medgar Evers story / directed by Michael Schultz ; screenplay by Ossie Davis and J. Kenneth Rotcop ; produced by J. Kenneth Rotcop ; Charles Fries Productions.

Publisher, Date:

Chicago, IL : Olive Films, [2015]

Description:

1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

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.

Subjects:

Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 -- Drama.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Drama.

Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Jackson -- Biography -- Drama.

Jackson (Miss.) -- Race relations -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Biographical films.

Other Author:

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.

Based on: Evers-Williams, Myrlie. For us, the living.

Charles Fries Productions, production company.

Olive Films, publisher.

Other Title:

Medgar Evers story

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.

Widescreen (1.85:1).

Based on the book by Mrs. Medgar Evers with William Peters.

Director of photography, Alan J. Kozlowski ; editor, Harry Keramidas ; music, Gerald Fried.

Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Cara, Margaret Avery, Roscoe Lee Browne, Laurence Fishburne, Janet MacLachlan, Paul Winfield.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital.

ISBN:

9786316204301 : DVD

6316204302 : DVD

Publisher Number:

OF1089

Other Number:

919095588

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

821695

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE For us t