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The last white knight

The last white knight

DVD 2021

In 1965, 21-year-old Torontonian, Paul Saltzman, drove to Mississippi, volunteering as a civil rights worker with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He was arrested, spending ten days in jail. He was assaulted by a young Klansman. In 2007, Saltzman returned to find the KKK member who had punched him in the head, to explore if individual reconciliation was possible. He found him and a five year dialogue has ensued. Featuring interview...

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African American civil rights workers Mississippi History
Beckwith, Byron de la
Civil rights Mississippi
Civil rights workers Mississippi History
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Mississippi Race relations History 20th century
Saltzman, Paul
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (US)
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Description:
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
videodisc
DVD
video file
DVD video
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: NR
Notes:
Title from container
Morgan Freeman, Harry Belafonte, Delay De La Beckwith, Paul Saltzman, Jim Ingram
DVD, wide screen
English dialogue; English subtitles
Control Number:
941703
UPC:
810071441714
829567090527
Other Authors:
Beckwith, Delay de la, on-screen participant
Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023, on-screen participant
Freeman, Morgan, on-screen participant
Ingram, Jim, 1932-2009, on-screen participant
Saltzman, Paul, film director, on-screen participant
Virgil Films, publisher
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