Desegregating Sacramento: A Fight for Fair Housing, Part 1

This film was produced for the Center for Sacramento History using footage and material from our collection. It is the second in a series that explores the history of systemic racism in the Sacramento region in order to provide a historical context for the issues that affect our community today. In this film, we focus on the early landmark efforts to desegregate housing in Sacramento. These efforts place Sacramento on the frontlines in the long fight to end racial discrimination in public and private housing across the United States.
Featured in the film are urban sociologist Dr. Jesus Hernandez, author of "Race and Place in Sacramento," and historian Clarence Caesar, author of "A Historical Overview of the Development of Sacramento's Black Community, 1850-1983." This story is also told archivally through the voice of Nathaniel Colley, Sacramento's first private-practicing African-American attorney and a national leader in the fight for fair housing. To learn more about Nathaniel Colley's life and career, see the Center for Sacramento History's Emmy-nominated PBS documentary "The Time Is Now: The Civic Life of Sacramento's Nathaniel Colley" at www.pbs.org/vi...
DESEGREGATING SACRAMENTO
Produced by: Chris Lango
Archival Producer: Kim Hayden
Film Technician: Chad E. Williams
Video & Drone Services: Steve Davis Productions
Support Provided by: California Revealed
Executive Producer: Marcia Eymann, City Historian
Historical Advisors: Dr. Lorena V. Márquez, Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UC Davis; Dr. Milmon Harrison, Professor of African American Studies, UC Davis;
Clarence Caesar, Historian.
Special Thanks: Clarence Caesar, Dr. Jesus Hernandez, Nathaniel Colley Civil Rights Coalition.
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