READINGS FROM VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
DVD
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Noted actors and activists perform readings of powerful selections from Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's Voices of a People's History of the United States.
Filmed at the New York Society for Ethical Culture and hosted by Zinn and Arnove, the program features such highlights as Lili Taylor and Wallace Shawn re-creating the impassioned exchange between Susan B. Anthony and the judge at her trial for illegally voting, John Sayles reading an anti-imperialist essay by Mark Twain, Brian Jones reading Frederick Douglass’s angry Fourth of July speech, and Paul Robeson, Jr. reciting from his father’s suppressed testimony before HUAC. Note: brief instances of profanity.
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| Copyright | 2005 |
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| Publisher | AK Press Video |
| Grade | 7 and up |
| Color | Color |
| Run Time | 120 minutes |
| ISBN | 9781904859420 |