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The killing floor, an Elsa Rassbach production ; adaptation by Ron Milner ; screenplay by Leslie Lee ; producer, George Manasse ; directed by Bill Duke ; a Public Forum Productions, Limited production in association with KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth

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The killing floor, an Elsa Rassbach production ; adaptation by Ron Milner ; screenplay by Leslie Lee ; producer, George Manasse ; directed by Bill Duke ; a Public Forum Productions, Limited production in association with KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth
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The killing floor
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1136721837
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an Elsa Rassbach production ; adaptation by Ron Milner ; screenplay by Leslie Lee ; producer, George Manasse ; directed by Bill Duke ; a Public Forum Productions, Limited production in association with KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth
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118
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Film Movement classics
Summary
Frank Custer is an African-American migrant worker who struggles to help build an interracial union in the Chicago Stockyards. When management efforts to divide the workforce put strain on the racial tensions, the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 is the result
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