a Trek to the River’s Edge:  The Atlanta Student Movement

Director:  Althea Brown

“a Trek to the River’s Edge” is a documentary film about the Atlanta Student Movement of the 1960s. This film outlines how through leadership, strategy, planning and action, the students garnered the support of the larger community while striving to overcome the oppression of segregation in contemporary America. Hear the firsthand accounts of the struggles and triumphs from the Atlanta University Center student leaders who organized, strategized, sat-in, marched and went to jail again and again in the fight to achieve full citizenship, justice and equality for African Americans.

Publisher: Film Raconteur, LLC
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199622599

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