Brick by Brick...A Civil Rights Story

Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story is a one-hour documentary, airing on WNET/ Thirteen February 9, 2007 at 9 PM about a contemporary American battle for civil rights. It's the story of three families in Yonkers, New York, as they confront the social realities, politics and law of racial discrimination in their housing and schools.

Brick by Brick describes how over forty years, one city's public policies created a ghetto. The film is an intimate view of local politics as seen through the eyes of activists, lawyers, politicians, and citizens working in their city and through the courts. The film's protagonists challenge their hometown, where many lived in segregated neighborhoods, served by failing schools.

Brick by Brick follows the historic US v. Yonkers federal anti-discrimination lawsuit that grew out of local efforts toward equal opportunity. The primary storytellers are the participants and community members, who relate their personal encounters with housing and educational discrimination— and their efforts to change their community and make it a better place.

Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story poses questions that Americans must answer about their own hometowns, in a decade when civil rights struggle must be reborn to make the dream of equality for all a reality.

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News & Politics

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• civil
• rights
• african
• american
• segregation
• jfk
• fair
• housing
• yonkers
• new
• york
• black
• history
• wnet
• pbs
• discrimination

[Anonymous51365]

@TaylorrAshh But they got what they wanted, i think its good they got what they should have had for a long time. However, they shouldent blame all white people for what happend. After all, white people themselves help blacks in the struggle for civil rights. So in some cases we helped them and in other cases we did not so i say they should blame the ones that dont see this period as deserving for blacks. Dont blame whites that think that this period is good for them (which is the majority)

[TaylorrAshh]

@Anonymous51365 they suffered, we cant just expect to get off scott-free.

[Anonymous51365]

My great grandfather was a police officer back then who often found himself beating back blacks and using police dogs on them. He thought of it as "doing his job and it was normal to him" he would tell me. I hold nothing against him for doing his job back then. Does that make me racist? I dont think so. Does that make my great grandfather racist? Not at all. The point is, this happend so long ago that things were different then so black people need to quit complaining about it. They won anyways.

[d3rdbaseace]

@moojeed NICE! 

[d3rdbaseace]

@moojeed bUrN! Good one! Go Bulldogs! ;)

[d3rdbaseace]

@edwardoalvarez22 THATs why they will be "suppressed" for a long time. They need to go back to monkey land, where they have to run their food down.

[edwardoalvarez22]

@d3rdbaseace Black people, all they know to do is complain . There should not received anything they don't know how to appreciate what they got.. Anamals appreciate more they due.

[moojeed]

@MrHimeezembi I live in Georgia, fuckboy. Google Forsyth County to learn how we feel about niggers.

[d3rdbaseace]

@MrHimeezembi hey, uncle tom, I don't live in Germany,lol Bitch-Ass monkey freak

[d3rdbaseace]

@MrHimeezembi Stupid niggers. Buy them books, send them to school, give them free lunches, and what do they do? Eat the fucking pencils.