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Born in Harlem, New York, in 1926. Between 1953 and 2005, William Greaves worked as a producer, writer, director, cinematographer, and editor on more than seventy films. In television, he served as the executive producer of the historic show “Black Journal”, for which he won an Emmy Award in 1969. Through documentary, narrative, and hybrid formats, his work tells the story of key figures in the fight for social justice and equality, in a filmography that constitutes a unique portrait of the United States and its checkered history. His films explore fierce civil rights battles, like “Nationtime” (1972) and “Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?” (1986), the achievements of inspiring leaders, with “Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice” (1989) and “Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey” (2001), and the uncategorizable “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm” films (1968, 2005), whose first volume was added to the U.S. National Film Registry. Greaves died in 2014.