Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story (original) (raw)
Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story is a 2007 documentary film, produced and directed by Bill Kavanagh. The story follows three Yonkers, New York families from the 1970s to the 1990s as they navigated a protracted and bitter confrontation in the city over housing and school desegregation. The documentary also recounts the heroic efforts of grassroots activists to keep the battle alive to address racial isolation and housing discrimination in Yonkers, as well as the infamous 1988 confrontation between the Federal courts and the City of Yonkers over the city's contempt of court orders. Westchester County civil rights activist Winston Ross is among those portrayed in the film, which details his youth in Yonkers' Runyon Heights neighborhood and his years in the city's public schools.
.jpg?width=300)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:Work/runtime | 53.0 |
| dbo:abstract | Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story is a 2007 documentary film, produced and directed by Bill Kavanagh. The story follows three Yonkers, New York families from the 1970s to the 1990s as they navigated a protracted and bitter confrontation in the city over housing and school desegregation. The documentary also recounts the heroic efforts of grassroots activists to keep the battle alive to address racial isolation and housing discrimination in Yonkers, as well as the infamous 1988 confrontation between the Federal courts and the City of Yonkers over the city's contempt of court orders. Westchester County civil rights activist Winston Ross is among those portrayed in the film, which details his youth in Yonkers' Runyon Heights neighborhood and his years in the city's public schools. Lawrence Downes of The New York Times described the documentary as "a sober warning about the present day." Downes asserted that, "America — never mind Yonkers — still grapples with unsettled issues of poverty and race, and until that conundrum is resolved, it will keep reasserting itself in new and troubling ways." A dramatization of the 1988 confrontation is encapsulated in the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero (2015), largely based on the Lisa Belkin non-fiction book. Many of the political actors and characters in Show Me a Hero are portrayed in the original documentary, including Nick Wasicsko, the youngest mayor in the city's history, who figured prominently in the 1988 crisis. (en) |
| dbo:format | dbr:NTSC |
| dbo:genre | dbr:Documentary |
| dbo:imdbId | 1262865 |
| dbo:person | dbr:Peter_Stein_(cinematographer) |
| dbo:runtime | 3180.000000 (xsd:double) |
| dbo:thumbnail | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Brick_by_Brick,_A_Civ...tory_(documentary_2007).jpg?width=300 |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | http://www.brick-by-brick.com https://web.archive.org/web/20150717182138/http:/newsreel.org/video/brick-by-brick |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 47457127 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 5421 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1107281971 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbc:History_of_racial_segregation_in_the_United_States dbr:Peter_Stein_(cinematographer) dbc:2000s_American_films dbc:2007_documentary_films dbc:2007_films dbc:American_documentary_films dbc:Documentary_films_about_African_Americans dbc:Documentary_films_about_racism_in_the_United_States dbr:NTSC dbr:California_Newsreel dbr:Show_Me_a_Hero dbr:Housing_discrimination dbr:Housing_segregation_in_the_United_States dbr:WNET dbr:Documentary dbr:Documentary_film dbc:African-American_history_in_the_New_York_metropolitan_area dbc:History_of_Yonkers,_New_York dbr:Nick_Wasicsko dbr:Grassroots dbc:Films_set_in_Westchester_County,_New_York dbr:HBO dbr:Film_festivals dbc:2007_television_films dbr:School_desegregation dbr:Yonkers,_New_York dbr:Public_television |
| dbp:caption | movie poster (en) |
| dbp:cinematography | dbr:Peter_Stein_(cinematographer) |
| dbp:company | Kavanagh Productions Inc (en) |
| dbp:country | United States (en) |
| dbp:director | Bill Kavanagh (en) |
| dbp:editor | Sylke Froechtenigt (en) |
| dbp:genre | dbr:Documentary |
| dbp:id | 1262865 (xsd:integer) DryqEga0IOA (en) |
| dbp:imageSize | 250 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:language | English (en) |
| dbp:name | A Civil Rights Story (en) Brick by Brick: (en) |
| dbp:pictureFormat | dbr:NTSC |
| dbp:producer | (en) Bill Kavanagh (en) Linda Porto (en) |
| dbp:runtime | 3180.0 |
| dbp:title | Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story (en) Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story - Trailer (en) |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Authority_control dbt:Facebook dbt:IMDb_title dbt:Infobox_television dbt:More_citations_needed dbt:Reflist dbt:Start_date dbt:YouTube |
| dcterms:subject | dbc:History_of_racial_segregation_in_the_United_States dbc:2000s_American_films dbc:2007_documentary_films dbc:2007_films dbc:American_documentary_films dbc:Documentary_films_about_African_Americans dbc:Documentary_films_about_racism_in_the_United_States dbc:African-American_history_in_the_New_York_metropolitan_area dbc:History_of_Yonkers,_New_York dbc:Films_set_in_Westchester_County,_New_York dbc:2007_television_films |
| rdf:type | owl:Thing schema:CreativeWork dbo:Work wikidata:Q15416 wikidata:Q386724 dbo:TelevisionShow |
| rdfs:comment | Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story is a 2007 documentary film, produced and directed by Bill Kavanagh. The story follows three Yonkers, New York families from the 1970s to the 1990s as they navigated a protracted and bitter confrontation in the city over housing and school desegregation. The documentary also recounts the heroic efforts of grassroots activists to keep the battle alive to address racial isolation and housing discrimination in Yonkers, as well as the infamous 1988 confrontation between the Federal courts and the City of Yonkers over the city's contempt of court orders. Westchester County civil rights activist Winston Ross is among those portrayed in the film, which details his youth in Yonkers' Runyon Heights neighborhood and his years in the city's public schools. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story (en) |
| owl:sameAs | wikidata:Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story https://global.dbpedia.org/id/yMK1 |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Brick_by_Brick:_A_Civil_Rights_Story?oldid=1107281971&ns=0 |
| foaf:depiction | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Brick_by_Brick,_A_Civil_Rights_Story_(documentary_2007).jpg |
| foaf:homepage | http://www.brick-by-brick.com |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Brick_by_Brick:_A_Civil_Rights_Story |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:Peter_Stein_(cinematographer) dbr:Show_Me_a_Hero dbr:Nick_Wasicsko dbr:Yonkers,_New_York dbr:List_of_racism-related_films |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Brick_by_Brick:_A_Civil_Rights_Story |
