Draft:Richard Leopold Wormser

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Not to be confused with novelist of westerns Richard Edward Wormser (1907–1977)

Richard Leopold Wormser (born 1933) is a documentary filmmaker, author, and professor in the United States. He made a PBS documentary about Jim Crow laws and wrote a companion book for it. He has written non-fiction books for young adults.

His documentary film subjects include the Elaine massacre, Communist Party in the United States, prison life, and 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. He is featured in Something about the Author Autobiography Series, Thomson Gale, Detroit, Michigan, Volume 26, 1998.

Writings

 * Pinkerton: America's First Private Eye, Walker (New York City) (1990)
 * Lifers: Learn the Truth at the Expense of Our Sorrow, Simon & Schuster, New York City (1991), about life in prison
 * Countdown to Crisis: A Look at the Middle East, Simon & Schuster, New York City (1992)
 * The Iron Horse: How Railroads Changed America (1993)
 * Three Faces of Vietnam, F. Watts, New York City, (1993)
 * Growing Up in the Great Depression (1994)
 * The Yellowlegs: The Story of the United States Cavalry (1966)
 * Hoboes: Wandering in America, 1870-1940 (1994)
 * Growing Up in the Great Depression
 * The Rise & Fall of Jim Crow: The African-American Struggle Against Discrimination, 1865-1954
 * The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, a companion to the PBS Television series
 * Lifers: Learn the Truth at the Expense of Our Sorrow
 * Juveniles in Trouble Simon & Schuster, New York City (1994)
 * American Islam: Growing up Muslim in America, Walker, New York City (1994)
 * The Titanic, Trumpet Club (1994)
 * American Childhoods: Three Centuries of Youth at Risk, Walker, New York City (1996)
 * To the Young Filmmaker: Conversations with Working Filmmakers, F. Watts, New York City (2002)
 * Defending the Accused: Stories from the Courtroom

Filmography

 * Toymakers (1963) about the children at Selinsgrove State School and Hospital in Pennsylvania
 * Liberation (1967)
 * The Seasons Change (1968), about the Democratic Party convention in Chicago
 * The Other Side of Victory (1976), co-writer
 * The Fight Ministers (1986)
 * Survival in the Sea (1968) a 29-minute documentary
 * The Fighting Ministers (1996)
 * Farmville: An American Story (1997)
 * The Rise & Fall of Jim Crow (2002), a four part PBS documentary
 * Elaine Riot: Tragedy and Triumph (2003), about a violent "race riot"
 * The Road to Removal (2004), about Cherokee removal
 * Hubert's World (2006), about a handicapped man
 * Lives in the Balance (2005–2007), about at-risk middle school students
 * Delta Blues (2008) about efforts to revitalize a town on the Mississippi River
 * American Reds: The Failed Revolution (2015) about the Communist Party in the U.S. New York University has a collection of interviews conducted for the film
 * Death for a Juvenile?