Ruby Duncan in a film by Hazel Gurland-PoolerIn Association with Firelight Media and Black Public Media
Based on the book
Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
by Annelise Orleck
Edited by
Sunita Prasad
Produced by
Nazenet Habtezghi
Directed & Produced by
Hazel Gurland-Pooler
This film is dedicated to the Mothers of the Welfare Rights Movement,
and those in Las Vegas who supported the cause.
Written by
Hazel Gurland-Pooler and Sunita Prasad
Original Score by
Wendell Yohannes Hanes
Executive Producers
Lois Vossen
Sally Jo Fifer
Leslie Fields-Cruz
Supervising Producer
Michael Ehrenzweig
FEATURING (In Order of Appearance)
Ruby Duncan
Alversa Beals
Mary Wesley
Frances Fox Piven
Gloria Steinem
George Wiley
ADDITIONAL APPEARANCES BY
Jack Anderson
U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty
Mia Birdsong
Rudi Butler
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell
Roy Duncan Jr.
U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford
Mary Manning
Premilla Nadasen
Annelise Orleck
Brittney Phillips
David Phillips
Indie Noel Philips
Kenneth Phillips
LaTanya Phillips
Sanders Phillips
Sondra Phillips-Gilbert
Dorian Warren
Claytee White
CONSULTING PRODUCERS
Yoruba Richen
Jamila Wignot
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
Jarobi Moorhead
Dee Wisne
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Cristin Hughes
ARCHIVAL PRODUCER
Hazel Gurland-Pooler
ARCHIVAL RESEARCHER
Natalie Shmuel
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Vatsala Goel
CAMERA OPERATION
Samuel Russell
ADDITIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mecky Creus
Hazel Gurland
Zach Heinzerling
Alex Morelli
Shane Richter
Adam Stepan
Tim Wilson
ASSISTANT CAMERA
Thanos Panagiotaros
LOCATION SOUND
Nicholas Carrison
Jim Choi
Yvan Iturriaga
GAFFER
Alex Miller
Craig Smith
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Ruella Rouf
Brittany Shacham
Meranda Yslas
AFTER EFFECTS ANIMATOR
Isabel Lyndon
DIGITAL PHOTO RESTORATION
Tim Hodge
VISUAL EFFECTS
Chris King
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS
Athena Alboro
Farley Crawford Bliss
Amanda Dodge
Claudia Kastellanos
HAIR AND MAKEUP
Courtney LeFear
Scheherazade Pollins
RESEARCHERS
Lauren Anderson
Matthew Cesario
Roni Gurland
Claire Hoffert
DESIGN AND ANIMATION
PHLEA TV
LEGAL SERVICES
Fernando Ramirez, Esq.
PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT
Ameena Din
INSURANCE
Truman Van Dyke Company
POST-PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Bobby Johnson
COLOR GRADING/ONLINE FACILITY
Hell's Color Kitchen
SOUND FACILITY
String & Can
ARCHIVAL MATERIALS COURTESY OF
ABC News Videosource *Ancestry/Newspapers.com AP Archive Boston Herald, MediaNews Group, Inc. * Boston Public Library, Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue * Carson Entertainment Group * William J. Clinton Presidential Library * CriticalPast * C-SPAN * DC Public Library, Star Collection © Washington Post * Democracy Now! * Ruby Duncan, Personal Collection * Franciscan Communications Center * Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Photographs * Derek Van Gorder, Income Movement * Grandview Heights Public Library * Diana Mara Henry Photography * Kinolibrary * KLAS, Nextar Media Inc. * KPIX-TV KSNV-TV, Chesapeake Media I, LLC * Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University * Las Vegas News Bureau * Las Vegas Review-Journal * Las Vegas Sun * The Late Show With Stephen Colbert * LBJ Presidential Library * Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Archives * Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University * National Child Labor Committee Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division * Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas * NewspaperArchive * Glendora Parharm, Personal Collection * People’s World * Photos and Video imagery supplied by Getty Images/NBC News Archives * Pond5 * Raynor Memorial Library, Marquette University * Repairers of the Breach * Reuters News Footage Archive, Screenocean * Rhode Island Historical Society / WJAR-TV Collection * Rice University, Fondren Library * Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum * Ronald Reagan Presidential Library * Jack Rottier Collection, Special Collections, George Mason University * Images or Footage used under license from Shutterstock.com * Frances Fox Piven Collection/Papers, Smith College Special Collections * Guida West Collection/Papers, Smith College Special Collections * Jacinda Stampley * Third World Newsreel * Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries * Q. B. Bush Papers, UNLV Libraries Special Collections * Ruby Duncan Papers on Operation Life, UNLV Libraries Special Collections * Lloyd Gill Photograph Collection, UNLV Libraries Special Collections * Billie Milton Grace Photograph Collection, UNLV Libraries Special Collections * Mollie Gregory Collection, UNLV Libraries Special Collections * Alice Key Papers, UNLV Libraries Special Collections * League of Women Voters of Las Vegas Valley, UNLV Libraries Special Collections * Milton Norman Photograph Collection, UNLV Libraries Special Collections * North Las Vegas Library Photograph Collection on North Las Vegas, UNLV Library Special Collections * Sands Hotel Photograph Collection, UNLV Libraries Special Collections * Sands Hotel Public Relations Records, UNLV Libraries Special Collections * Don T. Walker Photograph Collection, UNLV Libraries Special Collections Clinton Wright Collection, UNLV Libraries Special Collections * Veritone Digital, Inc. / CBS News Archives * James Groppi Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society * George A. Wiley Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society * The WNET Group
MUSIC SUPERVISOR
Brittany Douziech
MUSIC MIXING
Wendell Yohannes Hanes
ADDITIONAL MUSIC/SINGERS
Nikita Sofonov
Dan Kramer
Allen Jones
Nathan Padgett
Oshea Hunter
Bridget Cady
“WE AIN’T GONNA TAKE IT”
Written and Produced by Wendell Hanes and Daniel Kramer
Performed by: Bridget Cady
“WE MUST FIGHT”
Written and Produced by Eugene Hanes and Wendell Hanes
Performed by: Bridget Cady, Jasmine Hanes and Wendell Hanes
“FIGHT ON!”
Written by Thomas Gatling
Performed by The Harlem Gospel Travelers
Published by Songs From Defend
Courtesy of Colemine Records by arrangement with Numero Group
FISCAL SPONSOR
Women Make Movies
PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY
Brown Girls Doc Mafia Feedback Loop
DOCNYC Only In NY
Field of Vision - IF/Then & Big Sky Pitch
Film Independent Documentary Lab
The Gotham Film & Media Institute
Women Make Movies Production Assistance Program
PRODUCTION SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Dr. Barry and Roni Gurland
STORMING CAESARS PALACE FUNDING PROVIDED BY
National Endowment for the Humanities
Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film
Fork Films, LLC
The Better Angels Society
FUNDING FOR INDEPENDENT LENS AND STORMING CAESARS PALACE PROVIDED BY
Ford Foundation
ORIGINAL SERIES FUNDING PROVIDED BY
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Acton Family Giving
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Wyncote Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
STORMING CAESARS PALACE is a co-production of Gurland Documentaries, LLC, Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Black Public Media (BPM), with funding provided by the CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (CPB) in association with Firelight Media.
This program was produced by GURLAND DOCUMENTARIES, LLC which is solely responsible for its content.
© 2022 GURLAND DOCUMENTARIES, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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