FSM Film

Decision in the Streets
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a film by Harvey Richards, 1965, 35 min., b & w
Decision in the Streets shows the tumultuous beginnings of the Bay Area civil rights and peace movements from 1960 to 1965. Segments include 1960's anti-HUAC demonstrations; Hands-off-Cuba demonstrations during the Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban missile crisis in l962 and 1963; the 1963 march of 15,000 people protesting the Birmingham church bombings; mass arrests of protestors sitting in at the Sheraton Palace Hotel over racist hiring; the 1964 anti-Goldwater Republican convention protests; the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, and others.