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Go tell it on the mountain

"To be Black in America. To seek both salvation and understanding in the journey of a family from the rural South to 'big city' Harlem. To be a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather."

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  • "James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain"
  • "James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain"@en
  • "American Playhouse black history collection I"

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  • ""To be Black in America. To seek both salvation and understanding in the journey of a family from the rural South to 'big city' Harlem. To be a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.""@en
  • ""To be Black in America. To seek both salvation and understanding in the journey of a family from the rural South to 'big city' Harlem. To be a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.""
  • "A story of violence and desire, of tenderness and compassion, so gripping and moving, which lays bare the trials and sufferings, the yearings and aspirations of three generations of an African American family. The journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Herlem, seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather."@en
  • "Story of John Grimes, a young man living in Harlem in the 1930's. His relationship with his strict preacher-father, Gabriel, who had moved from the South to escape his past, is the central focus of this compelling drama."@en
  • "Set in Harlem in the 1930's, this film follows the difficult relationship between John Grimes, a young African-American man and his strict father Gabriel, a preacher who moved from the South to escape his past."
  • ""Story of John Grimes, a young man living in Harlem in the 1930s. His relationship with his strict preacher-father, Gabriel, who had moved from the South to escape his past, is the central focus of the this compelling drama"--Container."@en
  • "Dramatization of James Baldwin's partly autobiographical first novel, of a young Harlem man growing up in a strict family in the 1930's."@en
  • "A young black boy in the 1930's tries to win the respect of his stepfather."@en
  • "Follows the difficult passage to manhood of the son of an angry storefront preacher and a stoically courageous mother amid the family's troubled past from the Deep South to Depression-era Harlem."@en
  • "A story of the struggles of three generations of an Afro-American family, dramatizing family members' experiences from the Deep South to Depression-era Harlem."
  • "The story is told through the eyes of the oldest son of a black family living in Harlem in the 1920s. The boy comes to terms with his minister father who is intent on making his son a preacher."
  • "The story is told through the eyes of the oldest son of a black family living in Harlem in the 1920s. The boy comes to terms with his minister father who is intent on making his son a preacher."@en
  • ""A moving adaptation of James Baldwin's first novel, an autobiographical family saga that migrates from the rural South at the turn of the century to Harlem in the 1930s. The story, told partly in flashbacks, is dominated by Gabriel Grimes, an embittered preacher who is tormented by his profligate past. He has two sons, John, a sensitive, intelligent youth anxious to please his father, and Roy, an unruly boy who seems destined for trouble. They bear the brunt of their father's misplaced anger"--TV guide, January 14, 1985."@en
  • "A dramatization of James Baldwin's autobiographical first novel. It tells the story of a young black boy growing up in Harlem in the 1930's, torn between his father's world of the church and the secular world beyond Harlem."
  • "Told through the eyes of the oldest son of a black family living in Harlem in the 1920s. The boy comes to terms with his minister stepfather who is intent on making his son a preacher."
  • "Told through the eyes of the oldest son of a black family living in Harlem in the 1920s. The boy comes to terms with his minister stepfather who is intent on making his son a preacher."@en

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  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Family"@en
  • "Family"
  • "Made for TV movies"@en
  • "Downloadable video collection"@en
  • "Downloadable video collection"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Television adaptations"@en
  • "Downloadable video"
  • "Made-for-TV movies"@en
  • "Videocassettes"@en
  • "Religious television programs"@en
  • "Television programs for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Social problem television programs"@en
  • "Fiction television programs"@en
  • "Television programs"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Melodrama"@en
  • "Melodrama"
  • "Black films and programs"@en
  • "History"@en

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  • "Go Tell It on the Mountain"
  • "Go tell it on the Mountain"
  • "American playhouse : Go tell it on the mountain"
  • "Go tell it on the mountain"
  • "Go tell it on the mountain"@en
  • "Go Tell It On The Mountain"@en

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