Title Work

Title No: 778

Title: Interview with Ossie Davis

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Film; Video

Date: 29 Aug  1992 (Created)

Filmed interview with Ossie Davis conducted for The Great Depression. Discussion centers on race relations in his native Georgia, including lynching and the Ku Klux Klan, also Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Louis and the beginning of World War II.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 1 hr 6 min 17 sec 

Genres: Interview

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Georgia--Race relations; New Deal, 1933-1939; Lynching

Name As Subjects: Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Davis, Ossie; Ku Klux Klan; Anderson, Marian; Louis, Joe

Subject : Ossie Davis
Used in Episode Number : 317