Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

4/1/1980 - 10/31/1980

Funding Totals

$20,000.00 (approved)
$20,000.00 (awarded)


THE AMISTAD AFFAIR

FAIN: GN-*0491-80

Rainbow Television Workshop, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA 90028-6607)
Topper Carew (Project Director: November 1979 to October 1990)

To support planning for a four-part television series about the mutiny in 1839 by African slaves aboard the Spanish vessel, Amistad. The series will dramatize the incident and the subsequent trial of the slaves before the U.S. Supreme Court.