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Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

  • January 1986
  • 58mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    William Greaves,

    Starring

    Lerone Bennett Jr.,

    Florynce Kennedy,

    Franklin A. Thomas,

    June Jackson Christmas

    ...

    The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and American society more widely, and examines the notion of Black power itself. Greaves interviewed major Black leaders, such as Franklin Thomas, Clifton Wharton Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Lerone Bennett Jr. to present a candid take on issues within the African American community, revealing wider societal problems in America at large.