The Constitution and the Right to Vote (1959)

Gênero : Documentário

Runtime : 29M

Director : Stephen L. Sharff

Sinopse

Follows the efforts to gain the right to vote for Negroes through a succession of legal decision and social changes. Dramatizes the case of Smith vs. Allwright et al. Reviews the long conflict to extend voting rights to a large electorate beginning with the Constitutional Convention's compromise over dropping property requirements through and including the enactment of the 15th and 19th Amendments to the Constitution. Cites legal precedents established by the U.S. Supreme Court through their decisions concerning the control of state primaries in 1918 and 1935 and the later reversals in 1941 and 1944. Points to the issues involved in Federal encroachment upon state's rights.

Atores

Dr. L. E. Smith
Dr. L. E. Smith
Himself
R. R. Grovey
R. R. Grovey
Himself
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
Himself
W. J. Durham
W. J. Durham
Himself
Robert Trout
Robert Trout
Narrator

Tripulações

Stephen L. Sharff
Stephen L. Sharff
Director
Stephen L. Sharff
Stephen L. Sharff
Producer
Erik Barnouw
Erik Barnouw
Writer
Herbert Wechsler
Herbert Wechsler
Writer