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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, Ltd. 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, Ltd. 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, Ltd. production in association with KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth
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118
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Film Movement classics
Summary
Tells the story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. Traces the racial and class conflicts in the slaughterhouses and management's efforts to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919
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