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PBL; Hear Us, O Lord

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National Educational Television and Radio Center Pierce, Dick Farmer, Elizabeth Wicklein, John Clark, Ramsey Derwinski, Edward J Lang, Dan Howe, Harold, II

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Episode Number: 202Public Broadcast Laboratory presents a 90 minute color special, Hear Us, O Lord, a report on the response of lil-white suburb to a federal school desegregation order. Confronted with the prospect of having many of their children bussed to school in a neighboring black community, the people of South Holland, Illinois, unite to resist the court order. Hear Us, O Lord, a 50 minute film report on the response of one God-fearing family in an all-white Chicago suburb troubled by a Federal school bussing order. Televisions first close up portrait of typical Northern adherents of George C. Wallace takes viewers inside the home of electrical designer Dan Lang in South Holland. Just outside the Chicago city line, his community is the first incorporated suburb in the nation to be ordered to desegregate its schools. Dan is not certain about the wisdom of fighting the order. He deliberates the righteousness of the action with his wife and neighbors around the kitchen table. The camera follows Dan as he goes into Chicago to visit his old home, now owned by a black, and he takes his children on a sight seeing bus tour of the black neighborhood where the court requires them to go to school. To make the color broadcast, PBLs reporters spent months in South Holland, virtually living with the Langs and witnessing their deliberations with neighbors as the town closed ranks to fight the court order. PBLs cameras also filmed stormy public meetings in which several Calvinist...
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