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Operation Breadbasket

Jul 07, 1969 | IMDB 0

65 min Watch Now

TV Movie, Documentary

Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way of obtaining jobs.

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Robert Culp, Jesse Jackson

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