Before the Memories Fade: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement (2012) - The A.V. Club
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Before the Memories Fade: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement

2012
1h 47m
Documentary
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Cast

John Lewis (Representative John Lewis)Eleanor Holmes Norton (Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton)Dorothy Height (Dr. Dorothy Height)Dave Dennis (David Dennis)Marion Barry Jr. (Self)Walter Fauntroy (Reverend Walter Fauntroy)D'Army Bailey (D'Army Bailey)Guy Carawan (Guy Carawan)Benjamin Hooks (Dr. Benjamin Hooks)Frank Williams (Franklin Delano Williams)

Director

Keith B. Plummer

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Synopsis

Emotionally powerful and gripping stories visually told from an extraordinarily wide variety of movement participants ranging from foot soldiers to prominent leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement. These stories are creatively woven with historical footage, photographs and reenactment to tell the first hand accounts of history that many have never heard before about that tumultuous chapter of American history.

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