Independent Lens
Ratified
Ratified brings to life the push to add the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution through the legal battle in Virginia—the final state needed to ratify the amendment.
Shaker Heights: The Struggle for Integration
Documents a town's efforts to create an integrated community.
- Premiere Date
- November 27, 1997
- Length
- 60 minutes
- Funding Initiative
- Open Call
Producer
Stuart Math
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The Film
Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, is noted for its affluence, the quality of its public schools, and its success at racial integration. But an article in the local high school newspaper reporting wide racial disparity in the student test scores challenged the community's assumption of racial equality. The documentary examines the ideals and the realities of a community where black and white families have lived side by side for nearly 40 years.
