Police Power and Freedom of Assembly: The Gregory March (1968, Film Group)

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Police Power and Freedom of Assembly: The Gregory March documents the protests on Thursday, August 29th at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. Comedian/activist Dick Gregory is arrested as he attempts to lead a march to break the police cordon around the Chicago Loop. This film is incorporated into the Film Group's feature "American Revolution II". This film is part of a seven part module or series (The Urban Crisis and the New Militants), that "teach by raising questions rather than by attempting to answer them." The modules tell their story through editing rather than voice-over narration and show "real events, with real people acting spontaneously," as the Group explained to an educational film distributor. Thanks to release prints of The Urban Crisis and the New Militants donated by Bill Cottle and Mike Gray to CFA and two preservation grants awarded to CFA in 2005 and 2006 by the National Film Preservation Foundation, CFA was able to preserve the entire seven-part series. All release prints and preserved prints currently reside in our FilmGroup Collection. More information on this preservation project can be found here: http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/pres-projects/the-filmgroups-urban-crisis-series Original: 16mm., B&W;, Sound, Found in Chicago Film Archives' Film Group Collection (http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/689), Chicago Film Archives manages the rights to this title Explore over 1200 streaming films from Chicago Film Archives here (!): http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/