Search Results - "IS (Organization)"
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The Civilian Conservation Corps
Published: Infobase, 2011Films on Demand - Click here for accessDescription: 1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sound, color, digital file.
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A Nation of Hypocrites Prohibition - A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Published: Infobase, 2013Contents: “…Flagrant Defiance of Prohibition (2:29) -- Criticisms of Prohibition (1:06) -- 1920s: Decade of Hypocrisy (4:42) -- Emergence of Speakeasies (3:47) -- Lois Long's Speakeasy Dispatches (4:06) -- Lois Long on Harlem Speakeasies (3:38) -- Chicago Beer Wars (3:16) -- Chicago Gang Violence & Impunity (3:35) -- Al Capone in Media Spotlight (3:39) -- Capone's Complicated Relationship with Public (2:37) -- Liberation of Women (2:39) -- Sexual Revolution (2:24) -- Conspicuous Consumption of Alcohol (1:47) -- Al Smith's Presidential Candidacy (3:41) -- Opposition to Al Smith (3:01) -- Hatred for Al Smith (1:56) -- Religion in 1928 Presidential Election (2:47) -- Election of Herbert Hoover (1:47) -- Aftermath of 1928 Election (2:15) -- Challenges of Repealing Prohibition (2:01) -- Pauline Sabin (4:13) -- Pauline Sabin's Women's Organization (1:57) -- Women in Anti-Prohibition Movement (1:47) -- St. …”Description: 1 streaming video file (120 min.) : sound, color.
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Hammer and hoe : Alabama Communists during the Great Depression Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
Published: University of North Carolina Press, 2015Contents: “…In Egyptland: the share croppers' union -- 3. Organize or starve! : communists, labor, and antiradical violence -- 4. …”Description: xxxix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Oh Freedom After While
Published: Infobase, 2012Contents: “…Introduction: Oh Freedom After While (2:05) -- Missouri's Bootheel (3:03) -- Corrupt Plantation Owners (3:14) -- Great Depression: Sharecroppers' Plight (1:58) -- Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (1:40) -- Planters Strike Back (2:22) -- Black Organizer and White Planter (1:54) -- Government-Sponsored Cooperative Farming Communities (1:53) -- Influence of Owen Whitfield (2:54) -- More Troubles for the Sharecroppers (2:20) -- Whitfield's Plan (4:59) -- Protest Gets National Attention (2:49) -- Vulnerable Sharecroppers (3:08) -- Forcible Removal (2:28) -- Help on the Way (4:37) -- Sharecroppers Face Starvation (1:59) -- Cottages for Sharecroppers (3:07) -- Cropperville Community (2:36) -- Passage (2:48) -- Sharecropper Protest Legacy (3:04) -- Credits: Oh Freedom After While (1:26)…”Description: 1 streaming video file (56 min.) : sd., col.
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A Nation of Scofflaws
Published: Infobase, 2013Contents: “…Memories of a Bootlegger Father (2:16) -- Prohibition's Abiders (2:29) -- Prohibition's Defiers (2:23) -- Volstead Act (2:47) -- Exceptions to Volstead Act (3:19) -- Challenges of Federal Prohibition Enforcement (2:41) -- Enforcement on State & Local Levels (2:05) -- Obeying Prohibition (1:26) -- Roy Olmstead's Seattle Gang (4:28) -- Olmstead's Nonviolent Bootleg Gang (1:55) -- Small Business Bootlegging (1:53) -- Prohibition in New York City (2:12) -- Inefficacy of NYC Prohibition Bureau (2:16) -- Crackdown on Prohibition in NYC (2:39) -- Profile of a Prohibition Agent (4:33) -- George Remus's Empire (5:35) -- Remus's Top Tier Bribery (2:24) -- Rum Running (3:46) -- Mabel Walker Willebrandt (3:42) -- Willebrandt's Banner Prosecution of Bootleggers (2:41) -- Rise in Alcoholism & Dangerous Consequences (1:49) -- Gangs & Organized Crime (3:11) -- Al Capone & The Chicago Outfit (2:57) -- Al Capone & Chicago Lawlessness (2:38) -- Proliferation of Home Brewing (4:50) -- Moonshiners (4:17) -- 1924 Democratic National Convention Issues (2:03) -- 1924 Democratic National Convention Candidates (2:41) -- 1924 Democratic National Convention Outcome (3:12) -- Conviction of George Remus (4:19) -- Remus's Controversial Life in & After Prison (4:22) -- Tale of a Prohibition Raid Evasion (1:41) -- Wiretapping & Arrest of Roy Olmstead (5:32) -- Trial of Roy Olmsteaed (2:02) -- Supreme Court Opinion on Wiretapping (1:59) -- Prohibition's Widespread Effects & Regrets (2:03) -- Credits: A Nation of Scofflaws: Prohibition-A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (2:42)…”Description: 1 streaming video file (120 min.) : sound, color.
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Clockwork
Published: Infobase, 2012Films on Demand - Click here for accessDescription: 1 streaming video file (25 min.) : sd., col.
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From The Library of Black History : Black Hollywood
Published: Tony Brown Productions, 1989Films on Demand - Click here for accessDescription: 1 online resource (1 video file (28 min., 48 sec)) : sound, color.
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Al Capone and Prohibition
Published: Balanga, 2017Films on Demand - Click here for accessDescription: 1 online resource (1 video file (26 min., 0 sec)) : sound, color.
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Becoming Americans
Published: PBS, 2014Films on Demand - Click here for accessDescription: 1 online resource (1 video file (54 min., 19 sec)) : sound, color.
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