Title: Ivanhoe Donaldson /
Authors: Audio Brandon Films.
Publisher: Brandon Films,
Year: 1964
Subjects: Henry, Aaron,; Civil rights movements United States; Suffrage; Police; Protest movements United States; Civil rights demonstrations Personal narratives.; Minorities Legal status, laws, etc.; African American civil rights workers Interviews.; Police charges.; Prison sentences United States.; Poverty Danville Virginia; Imprisonment; Violence United States; Civil rights United States; African Americans Alabama Selma Segregation; Racism United States.; Arrest (Police methods); Nonviolence; Poverty Mississippi; African Americans Civil rights; Minorities; Alabama Race relations.; United States Social conditions; United States Race relations
Abstract: This film follows the work of Ivanhoe Donaldson a young SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee) activist and his colleagues during a three month period in 1963 as they promote civil rights, participate in hunger strikes and organize voter registration drives in Danville Virginia, Selma Alabama and the Mississippi Delta. The film captures the social and political environment of the American South prior to the enactment of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. SNCC members rehearse non-violent self defense techniques that they plan to employ against the often deadly police and vigilante brutality that activists faced in the early months of the civil rights movement.