Through courage, intellect, and activism, they helped shape the course of civil and human rights in America. Featuring interviews and rare archival footage, OF THE PEOPLE: WOMEN OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT brings their fight into the present, reminding us that the struggle for justice is far from over.

OF THE PEOPLE centers on the “indispensable engine” of the Civil Rights Movement: the female strategists and organizers who functioned as its backbone. Featuring new interviews with two living icons — Dolores Huerta and Elaine Brown — the film also includes interviews with Akemi Kochiyama, Yuri Kochiyama’s granddaughter. Others featured in the film include Dr. Keisha N. Blain, an award-winning author and Professor of History and Africana Studies at Brown University; Diane Fujino, author of Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama; Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University; and Japanese American singer, songwriter, dancer, author and activist Nobuko Miyamoto.