[EDUCATION] -- [CIVIL RIGHTS]. It Happened in Springfield. New York, NY: Warner Bros. Pictures, [1945].
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[EDUCATION] -- [CIVIL RIGHTS]. It Happened in Springfield. New York, NY: Warner Bros. Pictures, [1945].
Brochure promoting the educational film. [With:] Typed letter from Warner Bros. describing the film and its connection to the Springfield Plan initiative.
16pp, 7 x 10 in., paper boards (light wear and abrasions on cover, light vertical creasing, interior pages generally clean). Includes a small number of unidentified balck and white photographs and nine snapshots of scenes from the movie "It Happened in Springfield."
This print brochure was published as a companion piece to the short, educational film "It Happened in Springfield" which dramatized a 1939 educational program initially instituted in Springfield, Massachusetts. "The Springfield Plan" as it came to be known was adopted to foster democracy and eliminate racism from schooling. It is described by Harry M. Warner in the brochure's introduction as "an educational plan which attempts to teach young people that persons of all faiths and creeds can live together, work together, [and] play together in cultural unity and understanding...." Following the introduction, a series of eleven short essays by prominent contributors outline the importance of the program. Benjamin Fine, the education Editor for the New York Times, describes the plan as one which "tested the thesis that youngsters can accept one another without regard to race, creed, color, economic differences or cultural development."
RARE. OCLC locates only one copy at Harvard Library.
[With:] Typed letter from the Educational Bureau of Warner Brothers Pictures. 1p, 8 3/8 x 11 in. (light soil, horizontal fold at center). New York, NY. 23 April 1945. Letter indicates that the brochure was prepared as a discussion guide to "It Happened in Springfield." Lot includes the original Warner Brothers mailer which housed the material.
16pp, 7 x 10 in., paper boards (light wear and abrasions on cover, light vertical creasing, interior pages generally clean). Includes a small number of unidentified balck and white photographs and nine snapshots of scenes from the movie "It Happened in Springfield."
This print brochure was published as a companion piece to the short, educational film "It Happened in Springfield" which dramatized a 1939 educational program initially instituted in Springfield, Massachusetts. "The Springfield Plan" as it came to be known was adopted to foster democracy and eliminate racism from schooling. It is described by Harry M. Warner in the brochure's introduction as "an educational plan which attempts to teach young people that persons of all faiths and creeds can live together, work together, [and] play together in cultural unity and understanding...." Following the introduction, a series of eleven short essays by prominent contributors outline the importance of the program. Benjamin Fine, the education Editor for the New York Times, describes the plan as one which "tested the thesis that youngsters can accept one another without regard to race, creed, color, economic differences or cultural development."
RARE. OCLC locates only one copy at Harvard Library.
[With:] Typed letter from the Educational Bureau of Warner Brothers Pictures. 1p, 8 3/8 x 11 in. (light soil, horizontal fold at center). New York, NY. 23 April 1945. Letter indicates that the brochure was prepared as a discussion guide to "It Happened in Springfield." Lot includes the original Warner Brothers mailer which housed the material.
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