Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker
- Synopsis
- Using the life of Ella Baker as a connecting thread, traces the history of the US civil rights movement from the 1940s to the 1960s. Ella Baker’s political career was intertwined with most of the events of the modern black movement: NAACP organising efforts after the second world war, the SCLC and the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56, and most decisively, SNCC’s role in the lunch counter sit-ins of the late 1950s, the violent struggles in Birmingham in 1963 and the voter registration drives after 1964.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film; Video; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 60 min. Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 60 min.
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of production
- 1980
- Availability
- Hire
- Uses
- 2nd or 3rd- year courses in politics or sociology that deal with post-war American society or with the general subject of race relations.*
- Subjects
- Sociology
- Keywords
- Baker, Ella; black and Asian people; black communities; civil rights movements; United States of America
Credits
- Director
- Joanne Grant
Distribution Formats
- Type
- Film
- Format
- 16mm
Production Company
Distributor
- Name
Cinenova
- info@cinenova.org
- Web
- http://www.cinenova.org External site opens in new window
- Address
- Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF - Notes
- Films made by, and predominantly for, women. The collection is browsable by title or director and includes experimental films, narrative feature films, artists’ film and video, and documentary and educational videos. Hire or sale on film and video.
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