When I Rise
- Year
- 2010
- Description
- Follows African American opera singer Barbara Smith Conrad, who was cast with a white student as the leads in a 1957 production of Dido and Aeneas at the University of Texas but was replaced when segregationist legislators threatened to pull the school's funding, and documents her success on the international stage.
- Director
- Hames, Mat
- Producer
- Moll, James; Rosen, Michael
- Production Team
- Allentown Productions, Alpheus Media, and Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin
- Genre
- Documentary
- Language
- English
- Media Format
- 1 DVD (74 min.)
- Type
- Color
- Production Notes
- Broadcast on the PBS television series Independent Lens on Feb. 8, 2011.
- Updated
- 03-03-2025
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