Revolution 67

Revolution 67 Documentary Film Looks at Past and Current Issues of Race, and Poverty.

In 1967, a black taxi driver was arrested and beaten by Newark police, sparking one of the deadliest racial disturbances in America’s history. Were these terrible events a reaction to what the police had done, or were they an uprising against years of economic and social injustice faced by the black citizens of Newark? Or were they both?

Revolution ’67, a documentary film by the Newark-based filmmaking team of Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno, recalls how the days of the Newark rebellion formed a fateful milestone in America’s continuing struggles over race, economic justice, and corruption.

Revolution 67 uses chilling archival footage and interviews with prominent social historians such as Clement Price of Rutgers University and Kenneth Jackson of Columbia University, as well as participants in the events, including Tom Hayden, former New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne and writer Amiri Baraka. Revolution 67 is the winner of several prestigious awards for documentary filmmaking including two national awards for outstanding film of American history. It also has been broadcast on PBS’s award-winning series P.O.V.