Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Ave.
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Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Ave. shows the events of Wednesday, August 28 at the 1968 Democratic Convention including National Guardsmen detaining protesters, mass arrests near Grant Park, and Mayor Daley cursing at opponents from the convention floor.
Credits
Film Group (production company); Richard J. Daley (participant)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Film Group Collection
Notes: This film is part of a seven part module or educational film series ("The Urban Crisis and the New Militants") produced by The Film Group that, "teach by raising questions rather than by attempting to answer them." The modules tell their story through editing rather than voice-over narration and show "real events, with real people acting spontaneously," as the Group explained to an educational film distributor.
Distributed by: NewenhouseNovo
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.); Chicago (Ill.) Police Dept.; Democratic National Convention (1968: Chicago, Ill.); Political Activists; Student movements
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Preservation answer print, 420 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2598
Notes: This film is part of a seven part module or educational film series ("The Urban Crisis and the New Militants") produced by The Film Group that, "teach by raising questions rather than by attempting to answer them." The modules tell their story through editing rather than voice-over narration and show "real events, with real people acting spontaneously," as the Group explained to an educational film distributor.
Distributed by: NewenhouseNovo
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.); Chicago (Ill.) Police Dept.; Democratic National Convention (1968: Chicago, Ill.); Political Activists; Student movements
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Preservation answer print, 420 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2598
More in Urban Crisis and the New Militants
- The Cicero march. 1966
- Law and Order vs. Dissent 1968
- Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Ave. 1968
- The Gregory March: Police Power and the Freedom of Assembly 1968
- Black Moderates and Black Militants 1969
- The People’s Right to Know: Police vs. Reporters 1969
- The Right To Dissent - A Press Conference 1970
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Sources
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Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:08