Title Tulia, Texas : a film / California Newsreel presents ; a film by Cassandra Herrman and Kelly Whalen ; a co-production of Cassandra Herrman and Kelly Whalen and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Published [San Francisco, CA] : California Newsreel, [2008] ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (54 min.)) : sound, color Contents Drug hysteria -- Arrests -- Trials -- Crusading attorney -- Drug Task Force -- Town bigotry -- Campaigns to free convicted -- Coleman's credibility questioned -- Convicted released/Town response -- Conclusion and legacy Summary Drug use was a fact of life in the African-American community of Tulia, Texas--but when it became common in white neighborhoods, too, civic leaders grew alarmed. In 1999 they brought in an undercover agent, later found to be a racist with a criminal record, to conduct a sting operation. Dozens of black citizens were rounded up, given perfunctory trials, and handed down unusually stiff sentences of up to 99 years behind bars. This program profiles the Texas sting operation that seemed to be more of a war on blacks than a war on drugs, examining the ties between race, poverty, and the criminal justice system that the incident implies. (54 minutes) A streaming videorecording Notes Originally produced as a documentary film in 2007 Broadcast as an episode of Independent Lens on February 10, 2009, on PBS Credits Editor, Linda Peckham, Kenji Yamamoto ; camera, Cassandra Herrman ; music composer, Mike Semple Performer Tom Coleman, Freddie Brookins Sr., Bobby Keeter, Sue Riddick, Larry Stewart, Mimi McBroom, Terri Brookins, Freddie Brookins, Charles Kiker, Michelle White, Ricky White, Pattie Brookins, Gary Gardner, Nate Blakeslee, Jeff Blackburn, Rev. Edwin Sanders, Ron Chapman, Alberta Williams, Rod Hobson Notes In English; closed-captioned Videodisc (DVD) version record Subject Coleman, Thomas Roland. SUBJECT Coleman, Thomas Roland fast Subject Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Texas -- Tulia Discrimination in law enforcement -- Texas -- Tulia Police corruption -- Texas -- Tulia False imprisonment -- Texas -- Tulia Drug traffic -- Investigation -- Texas -- Tulia Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Texas -- Tulia Drug control -- Texas -- Tulia Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States Judicial error -- Texas -- Swisher County Trials (Perjury) -- Texas Crime and race -- United States Race discrimination -- Texas -- Swisher County Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States Criminal justice, Administration of -- Economic aspects -- United States Crime and race Criminal justice, Administration of -- Economic aspects Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects Discrimination in criminal justice administration Discrimination in law enforcement Drug control Drug traffic -- Investigation False imprisonment Judicial error Police corruption Race discrimination Race relations Racial profiling in law enforcement Trials (Perjury) SUBJECT Tulia (Tex.) -- Race relations Subject Texas Texas -- Swisher County Texas -- Tulia United States Genre/Form Streaming video documentary film. Nonfiction films Nonfiction films. Streaming video. Documentary films. Films autres que de fiction. Documentaires. Form Streaming video Author Herrman, Cassandra, filmmaker. Whalen, Kelly, filmmaker. Independent Television Service, production company Corporation for Public Broadcasting, sponsoring body. California Newsreel (Firm), production company. Films Media Group.

OTHER TI Independent lens (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002002985

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