Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other uniform titles: | American playhouse (Television program)
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| Other authors / contributors: | Manasse, George.
Duke, Bill, 1943-
Lee, Leslie.
Rassbach, Elsa.
Leake, Damien.
Felder, Clarence.
Gunn, Moses, 1919-
Woodard, Alfre, 1953-
Birch, W. D.
Carter, John.
Swados, Elizabeth.
Milner, Ron.
Public Forum Productions, Ltd.
KERA Dallas/Ft. Worth (Television station)
Nelson Entertainment.
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| Notes: | Originally produced as motion picture in 1985.
"A presentation of the Made in U.S.A. series."
Art director, Maher Ahmad ; music composer/director, Elizabeth Swados ; director of photography, William Birch ; executive producer, Elsa Rassbach.
Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Clarence Felder, Moses Gunn.
VHS.
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| Summary: | This story tells of events that led to the Chicago race riots of 1919. A young black sharecropper leaves the South during World War I and becomes a laborer in the Chicago stockyards, and, along with other little-known stockyard workers of different ethnic backgrounds, he attempts to form an interracial industrial union in the face of growing conflict.
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| Target Audience: | Adult.
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