We Demand

Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold

2016 | 00:10:19 | United States | English | B&W and Color | Stereo | 16:9 | 16mm film

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: Activism, African-American, History, Politics, War

The story of the anti-Vietnam War movement from the perspective of James R. Roebuck, the first African American president of University of Virginia’s Student Council. Over a ten-day period of unprecedented student upheaval in 1970, Roebuck confronted a series of political challenges and existential dilemmas. This budding activist and future U.S. representative was the quintessential militant insider whose cool temperament and ideological flexibility proved quite useful as UVA appeared on the verge of imploding from within.

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