WUSTL Film and Media Archive

Title Work

Title No: 26

Title: The promised land (1967-1968)

Alternate Titles:

Eyes 204

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Video

Date: 1989 (Broadcast)

Original Summary:

Moved by the increasing level of poverty, Dr. Martin Luther King, in the final year of his life, began to organize a Poor People's Campaign, a march of the poor to Washington, D.C., where they would erect Resurrection City to embarrass and motivate a reluctant government. On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated. Soon after its construction, Resurrection City was shut down, marking the end of a chapter of the civil rights movement.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 1 hr

Forms: Television series

Genres: Documentary

Subjects: Poor People's Campaign; African Americans--Civil rights--History; Racism--United States--History; Civil rights movements--United States--History; Race relations--United States--History; Urban African Americans--History--20th century; Civil rights; Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Name As Subjects: King, Martin Luther Jr.

Credits:

	Role	Name
	Editor	Benson, Lillian
	Production Company	Blackside, Inc.
	Narrator	Bond, Julian
	Executive Producer	Hampton, Henry
	Distribution Company	PBS Video
	Producer	Shearer, Jacqueline
	Director	Shearer, Jacqueline
	Writer	Shearer, Jacqueline
	Producer	Stekler, Paul Jeffrey
	Director	Stekler, Paul Jeffrey
	Writer	Stekler, Paul Jeffrey
	Broadcaster	WGBH

Notes:

Boston, MA : Blackside ; Alexandria, VA : PBS Video [distributor],
OCLC: 28657269

http://etext.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH40/chase40.html

Items ^x2

	Item	Description
	26-2	Video Tape : Type C
	26-3	Video Tape : Video home system

Component Contents ^x5

	Item	Description
	5427-1-26-4	Video Tape : Type C
	5427-2-26-4	Digital : Video/quicktime
	5427-3-26-4	Digital : Video/dvcpro 50
	5427-4-26-4	Digital : Video/mpeg
	5427-5-26-4	Disc : DVD

Contained By ^x1

	Title No	Title
	5427	Eyes on the prize II--America at the racial crossroads, 1965-1985