Product Description
Examines the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education.
Product Details
| Title | With All Deliberate Speed |
| Directed By | Peter Gilbert |
| Label | Starz / Anchor Bay |
| MPAA Rating | Unrated |
| Aspect Ratio | 1.33:1 |
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| Original Release Date | 2004-05-14 |
| Brand | Fox |
| Studio | Starz / Anchor Bay |
| Starring | Vernon Jordan,Thurgood Marshall Jr.,Barbara Johns,Julian Bond,Reverend Joe Delaine |
| Running Time | 111 minutes |
| Release Date | 2005-01-25 |
| Manufacturer | Starz / Anchor Bay |
| Publisher | Starz / Anchor Bay |
| Region Code | 1 |
| Theatrical Release Date | 2004-05-14 |
| UPC | 013131302691 |
| EAN | 0013131302691 |
| Number Of Discs | 1 |
| MPN | 013131302691 |
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Customer Reviews
all deliberate speedReview by Tanya Eustace, 2009-12-06
The video arrived quickly and in perfect condition. Thank-you for great Service! (I apologize this review is so late- for some reason the website wouldn't let me submit my feedback)
The most important Supreme Court Case of the 20th Century
Review by Spencer Swindler, 2009-01-03
There is no mention of Linda Brown on the entire video. After watching this I really wished that the Supreme Court case were named Briggs v Elliot so that school kids would grow up learning this story. 5 cases were grouped together under the title Brown v Board. With All Deliberate Speed focuses on Davis v Prince Edward County and Briggs v Elliot. The story is very inspirational in that young and old African-Americans knew their constitutional and natural rights, fought for them, and through their actions ended de jure segregation at the federal level. This DVD does not go on to the state battles in places like Little Rock and Ole Miss. I wish Gilbert would do a second video on the battles it took to enforce the Brown v Board decision.
Not bad
Review by Andrew Joseph Pegoda, 2008-07-10
"With All Deliberate Speed" is a very good film for social history. All-in-all its accuracy is very high. The film does misquote the Supreme Court's decision, so watch out!
The Civil War isn't over.
Review by Timothy P. Scanlon, 2008-02-02
In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that "seperate but equal" was a legal doctrine, with a sole dissenting vote, the first John Marshall Harlan. In 1954, NAACP attorney, and later the first black Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall argued--and won--that it is NOT legal, in the milestone "Brown v. Board of Education" decision. The title of this film is the phrase which gave the states "adequate" time to integrate--or desegregate--their school systems.
I was impressed with the film for a couple of primary reasons: (1) We are accustomed to celebrity knowledge. Anyone remotely aware of civil rights know of King, or Malcolm X, of Medgar Evers. But there were and are others--many others--working in the dark before those figures even became celebrities. (And we know little, if anything, of them!) (2) Desegretation wasn't just a movement pushed by black people, but blacks and whites has to work TOGETHER. And they did, hence the laws going the way they did.
The important theme of the film is that, despite Brown v. Board, there were two counties, one in South Carolina and the other in Virginia, who resisted the law using the phrase that makes up the film's title. One went so far as to close the school system for some time, lest they have to permit black people into white classrooms!
I thought the film put together the history of these events appropriately. They fit into contexts, for example, and the film included those contexts. For instance, our school history/fairy tales indicate that slavery/racism was at least deinstitutionalized after the Civil War. Not so. As many an activist points out in the story, much of the South was using any technique they could to continue the caste system by which black people were "inferior," maintained that way by inferior schools.
I thought the producers did a fine job too of describing how astute Marshall was in arguing Brown, and that, had the prior Chief Justice, someone of a contrarian, had not passed away and been replaced by Earl Warren, Brown might not have gone the way it did, and our country would be a different--and less desirable--place.
Oh, another reason I liked the film is that many of the activists, most of them black, in the film, acknowledged that the world IS a better place regarding race relations that it was a half century ago. Frankly, I get tired out by young activists--black and white--who contend that nothing has changed. Is there work to do? Always. But it does no good to suggest that nothing has changed, that we're in a despair-filled pit of racial bigotry and we always will be. Let's get real.
I recommend this film, to schools, to activists, maybe especially to those who contend nothing has changed over the years. And remember, there ARE people who worked on civil rights of whom you've never heard. It's about time we pay our respects to them, those who are living and those who are not. (I wish I could list some of their names here, but I'm never that complete in taking notes on a film!)
an important documentary
Review by Audrey J. Tucker, 2007-11-30
Viewing "With All Deliberate Speed" is a very discomforting experience. For that reason, it is essential to ignore the inclination to avoid this glimpse of the historical BROWN V. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION decision. At the eve of 2008, hearts are still closed to the message that "homo sapiens" is a unitary genus. Exposure to this work can chip away at long-held erroneous misconceptions.
