A Tribute to George Houser from Connie Field and Rick Tejada‐Flores

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Creator

Connie Field; Rick Tejada‐Flores; Clarity Films

Place Created

Berkeley, California, United States

Date

September 21, 2015

Type of Item

Movie

Length/duration

00:09:44

Description

This video was created for the memorial of longtime social justice activist George M. Houser, who passed away at the age of 99 on August 19, 2015. As an activist he consistently fought for causes decades before the world caught up with them. The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) called him "one of the most important yet least-heralded activists of the 20th century." The movie includes interviews with George Houser and Walter Sisulu of the African National Congress (ANC). The video discusses nonviolence, the civil rights movement, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Journey of Reconciliation, Bayard Rustin, apartheid, the Defiance Campaign, Julius Nyerere, Kenneth Kaunda,...

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Publisher

Clarity Films

Organization

American Committee on Africa

Coverage Africa

South Africa
Southern Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

video/mp4

Rights Management

Used by permission of Clarity Films, producer of Have You Heard from Johannesburg, which provided the video to the African Activist Archive Project.