{"id":11041,"date":"2011-03-03T16:56:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11041"},"modified":"2013-08-28T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T19:39:48","slug":"civil-rights-roundtable-1963-brando-heston-belafonte-poitier-mankiewicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/03\/03\/civil-rights-roundtable-1963-brando-heston-belafonte-poitier-mankiewicz\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights Roundtable 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Civil-Rights-Roundtable-1963.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11042\" title=\"Civil Rights Roundtable 1963\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Civil-Rights-Roundtable-1963.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DOC:_The_Documentary_Channel\">The Documentary Channel<\/a> has posted a fascinating\u00a0round table\u00a0discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)\">the Civil Rights movement<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)#March_on_Washington.2C_1963\">1963<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Schoenbrun\">David Schoenbrun<\/a> of CBS, it took place on that day of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom\">March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom<\/a> on August 28th 1963. and features\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Baldwin\">James Baldwin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marlon_Brando\">Marlon Brando<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Belafonte\">Harry Belafonte<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlton_Heston\">Charlton Heston<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_L._Mankiewicz\">Joseph L. Mankiewicz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sidney_Poitier\">Sidney Poitier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mdIHBod9nT4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brando talks about his awakening and how it will affect other dispossessed minorities, saying the march is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;one step closer to understanding the human heart&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heston talks about picketing restaurants in Oklahoma and how he could no longer pay lip service to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;a cause that is so urgently right in a time that is so urgently now&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the discussion broadens out to the wider subject of human freedoms around the world, the parallels with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010%E2%80%932011_Middle_East_and_North_Africa_protests\">recent protests in the Middle East<\/a> are hard to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentarychannel.com\/\">The Documentary Channel<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955\u20131968)\">Find out more about African-American Civil Rights Movement<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating round table discussion of the Civil Rights movement from 1963, which includes Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Joseph L. Mankiewic, Harry Belafonte, James Baldwin and Sidney Poitier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26],"tags":[1883,1882,1884,685,1885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}