US 1969, D, E Madeline Anderson, P Madeline Anderson, American Foundation of Non-Violence, Cast Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy, Leon Davis, Andrew Young, Print colour, 16mm, 28 min, English OV with electronic German SUB, Icarus Film

In 1969, Madeline Anderson was commissioned by the Hospital Workers Union Local 1199 to record a strike at the Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina in Charleston. The striking employees, who aimed to receive union recognition and a fair wage, numbered over 400, all but 12 of them women and all of them black. The resulting documentary film, I Am Somebody (1969), has the distinction of being the first half-hour documentary film directed by an African-American, unionized, female director. (Stacey Doyle, Black Film Center/Archive: Madeline Anderson & I Am Somebody, 2013)