Keys to the Kingdom, The (1974-80)
- 1990 ----- color ----- 58 min ----- vhs
- (Eyes on the Prize II series, Part 7) Examines the relationship between law and grassroots political struggle as it chronicles Black efforts to inject substance into promises of equality. In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. In Boston, some whites violently resist a federal school desegregation order. Atlanta's first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson, proves that affirmative action can work, but the Bakke Supreme Court case challenges that policy.
- Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Afro-American, Discrimination, Political Science: American)
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