Mighty Ira (2020) on Netflix
NR20201h 39mDocumentary
Ira Glasser spent 23 years leading the American Civil Liberties Union, defending free speech for civil rights leaders and neo-Nazis alike. He grew up in Brooklyn, a fan of the Dodgers.
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Ira Glasser ran the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001. When he took over, the group was small and near bankruptcy; by the time he left it had grown into a national organization with offices around the country and a sizable endowment. The documentary traces his decades of work on free speech and racial justice, including the ACLU's decision to represent neo-Nazis who wanted to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, a Chicago suburb that was then home to many Holocaust survivors. Ben Stern, a 96-year-old survivor, explains why he thought that decision was wrong. It also returns to Glasser's Brooklyn childhood and the conversation with Senator Robert Kennedy that led to his first job with the ACLU.
Cast
- Roger Craveras Self
- Noam Dwormanas Self
- Cora Glasseras Self
- Trude Glasseras Self
- David Goldbergeras Self
- Sheila Suess Kennedyas Self
- Michael Kinsleyas Self(archive footage)
- Michael Meyersas Self
- Jay Nordlingeras Self
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mighty Ira (2020)
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- Mighty Ira began after director Nico Perrino met Ira Glasser in New York City in 2017, at the funeral of writer and jazz critic Nat Hentoff.
- The film's title comes from a line in "Ira at the Bat", a poem by one of Glasser's ACLU colleagues read at the end of the film, itself a play on Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat".
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