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I Am Somebody

Madeline Anderson
1970 United States 30 minutes English
DR

A cinematic snapshot of the civil rights movement across the United States in the 1960s. I Am Somebody documents the 1969 strike of Black hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina, over the course of which more than a thousand strikers, students, and civil rights activists were jailed. All but twelve of the 400 strikers were women, and Anderson tells the story from a distinctly feminist point of view.

Production :
Madeline Anderson, American Foundation of Nonviolence
Photography :
Don Hunstein, Roland Mitchel
Editing :
Madeline Anderson
Print contact :
Icarus Films • email orders@icarusfilms.com

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