’63 Boycott: Today Is Freedom Day — Chicago School Boycott Survivors Speak

Kartemquin Films interviews survivors of the 1963 Chicago School Boycott, asking if they or someone they knew participated in one of the largest ci, Chicago, Illinois, 1963 / filmed 2012. A rare street-interview archive of living witnesses to one of the most underreported civil rights events — 200,000 students walked out of Chicago s.

Who: Chicago school boycott participants and survivors from 1963

What: Kartemquin Films interviews survivors of the 1963 Chicago School Boycott, asking if they or someone they knew participated in one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in northern US history

Where: Chicago, Illinois

When: 1963 / filmed 2012

Why: A rare street-interview archive of living witnesses to one of the most underreported civil rights events — 200,000 students walked out of Chicago schools

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