Eastern Eye: A Nova Scotia Filmography ~ 1899-1973

Human rights conference 

Producing Agency:   Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Release Date:   1968

Format:   16 mm, sound, 00:25:54

Series:   Perspective 68

Synopsis – interviews on the failure to consider black applicants for the position of coordinator of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. Interview with new coordinator Marvin Schiff. Final sequences deal with other issues discussed at a conference on human rights, including the dominance of race issues and the downplaying of economic concerns as critical factors affecting the issue of human rights.

Repository:   Nova Scotia Archives

Subjects:
Human rights - Conferences and Conventions
Discrimination

Genre:
Incomplete production

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