Integration Report 1

Synopsis

Integration Report 1, Madeline Anderson's trailblazing debut, was the first known documentary by an African American female director. With tenacity, empathy and skill, Anderson assembles a vital record of desegregation efforts around the country in 1959 and 1960, featuring footage by documentary legends Albert Maysles and Richard Leacock and early Black cameraman Robert Puello, singing by Maya Angelou, and narration by playwright Loften Mitchell. Anderson fleetly moves from sit-ins in Montgomery, Alabama to a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C. to a protest of the unprosecuted death in police custody of an unarmed Black man in Brooklyn, capturing the incredible reach and scope of the civil rights movement, and working with this diverse of footage, as she would later say, “like an artist with a palette using different colors.”

Main Cast

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self

Age : 39 | Popularity : 11%

Bayard Rustin

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Andrew Young

Self

Age : 92 | Popularity : 3%

Robert Graham Brown

Narrator (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Camera Operator	Albert Maysles John Fletcher Richard Leacock Alfonso Burney Richard Cressey Robert Puello
Sound	Music	Maya Angelou Lillian Hayman James Bartow
Directing	Director	Madeline Anderson
Production	Producer	Madeline Anderson
Writing	Writer	Loften Mitchell
Editing	Editor	Zina Voynow
Department	Role	Name

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