10,000 BLACK MEN NAMED GEORGE - DVD

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• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: When the Great Depression struck America in the 1920s finding work was hard, but if you were poor and black it was virtually impossible.; ; Working as a porter for the Pullman Rail Company was an option, but it meant taking home a third as much as white employees and working some days for free. You could forget about being called by your real name - all black porters were simply called 'George' after George Pullman, the first person to employ emancipated slaves.; ; Asa Philip Randolph, a black journalist and educated socialist trying to establish a voice for these forgotten workers, agrees to fight for the Pullman porters' cause and form the first black union in America. Livelihoods and lives would be put at risk in the attempt to gain 10,000 signatures of the men known only as 'George.' This is the true story of how a courageous leader came to be known as 'the most dangerous man in America.'
• Cast: Andre Braugher, Charles S. Dutton, Mario Van Peebles, Brock Peters, Carla Brothers, Kenneth McGregor, Ellen Holly, Ernestine Jackson, Ardon Bess, Ordena Stephens, James McGowan, Kedar Brown, Christopher Bondy, Neville Edwards, Collette Micks, Terry Hart, Emma Fleury, Mario Romano, Camille James, Sandi Ross, Lee Taylor, John Dewey, Ed Fielding, Karen Eyo, Harvey Sokoloff, Amanda Brugel, Dave Nichols, Tim MacMenamin, Peter Graham, Aron Tager, Darren Joseph, Larry Schwartz, Hadley Sandiford, Sean Wayne Doyle, Marvin Hinz, Nelson Tynes, Joel Gordon, Lyriq Bent, Richard Blackburn, Richard Eden, Herbert Johnson, Kle McKoy, Yvette McKoy, Robert Townsend
• Director: Robert Townsend
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: Dufferin Gate Productions, Paramount Network Television Productions, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Television, Showtime Networks
• Media Format: Movie