Urban Odyssey: Isaac Franck

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Title

Urban Odyssey: Isaac Franck

Subject

Local History
Activism
Civil Rights
Jewish History

Description

In the early 1990's the Humanities Council of Washington, DC produced the Urban Odyssey series of documentaries. The installments tell the stories of historic local figures in their own words. In this episode Isaac Franck, a noted Jewish Civil Rights activist, describes how the District's Jewish and African-American communities fought with (and sometimes against) one another in a common struggle.From his arrival in Washington in 1948, Franck saw the need for Jewish residents and other communities to join forces to combat the injustice and inequality that was pervasive in that period. Franck worked with civil rights groups in the 1950s and 1960s, and also strove to unite different elements of the Jewish community.

Urban Odyssey was a 1991 series produced by the Humanities Council of Washington, DC for DCTV Public Access Television.

These three tapes are labeled, tapes #1, #3 and SVHS.

Creator

Humanities Council of Washington, DC

Source

Program: Urban Odyssey

Publisher

Humanities Council of Washington, DC

Date

1991

Rights

Copyright 1991, Howard University Public TV
Copyright 1991, Humanities Council of Washington, DC

Format

VHS

Language

English

Type

Moving Image

Identifier

3.P.1991
217

Coverage

Washington, DC

Moving Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

VHS

Duration

00:28:17

Compression

MPEG

Producer

Parkerson, Michelle
Pratt, Bill

Director

Parkerson, Michelle
Pratt, Bill

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