Cicero March (1966, Film Group)

Cicero March details a civil rights march on September 4, 1966. Robert Lucas (Congress of Racial Equality) led activists through Cicero, Illinois to protest restrictions in housing laws. White residents of Cicero respond with vitriolic jeers as the police struggle to prevent a riot.
This film is part of a seven part module or series ("The Urban Crisis and the New Militants") produced by The Film Group that, "teach by raising questions rather than by attempting to answer them." The modules tell their story through editing rather than voice-over narration and show "real events, with real people acting spontaneously," as the Group explained to an educational film distributor.
Thanks to release prints of The Urban Crisis and the New Militants donated by Bill Cottle and Mike Gray to Chicago Film Archives and two preservation grants awarded to CFA in 2005 and 2006 by the National Film Preservation Foundation, CFA was able to preserve the entire seven-part series. All release prints and preserved prints currently reside in our FilmGroup Collection. More information on this preservation project can be found here: www.chicagofilmarchives.org/pr...
In 2013, this title was selected for the Nation Film Registry (www.chicagofilmarchives.org/ne...)
Original: 16mm., B&W, Sound, Found in Chicago Film Archives' Film Group Collection (www.chicagofilmarchives.org/co..., Chicago Film Archives manages the rights to this title
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