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2015

FORMAT:

Short Film

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Sam Katz

DIRECTOR
Jonathan Kohl

PRODUCERS

Amy Cohen, Jonathan Kohl

Andrew Ferrett, Wendy Cox

EDITOR

Jonathan Kohl

ARCHIVAL PRODUCER

Jonathan Kohl

FEATURING

Karen Asper Jordan

Bernyce Mills DeVaughn

Kenneth Salaam

Richard Watson

In 1965, youth members of the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP rallied under the leadership of lawyer and civil rights activist Cecil B. Moore to join the fight to desegregate Girard College. Fifty years later, four members of the Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters, “Cecil's People,” recount their seven-month stand through story and song.

AWARDS

Mid-Atlantic Emmy Best Cultural Program - Special (2015, 2016)

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