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Mighty Ira

I grew up in East Flatbush, a kind of a working-classwhite, Jewish neighborhood

[upbeat music playing] [Ira]
I grew up in East Flatbush, a kind of a working-class
white, Jewish neighborhood

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[Ira] I grew up in East Flatbush,
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a kind of a working-class white, Jewish neighborhood.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:22
Uploaded
May 26, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

Ira is one of America's unsung champions of civil rights and liberties. As his generation retires from the barricades, Ira reminisces on his life at the forefront of defending the rights of all Americans.
Growing up there, I spent a lot of time in the streets. - Mighty Ira 00:04
Growing up there, I spent a lot of time in the streets.
There was no supervised play, there were no adults anywhere, there were no little leagues, - Mighty Ira 00:08
There was no supervised play, there were no adults anywhere,...
You'd sing doo-wop on the street corners, a cappella stuff whoever was there. - Mighty Ira 00:05
You'd sing doo-wop on the street corners, a cappella st...
Uh, you'd play stickball, punchball on the streets. - Mighty Ira 00:05
Uh, you'd play stickball, punchball on the streets.
Your parents would give you a quarter and you go buy a Spalding, which was a pink ball. - Mighty Ira 00:06
Your parents would give you a quarter and you go buy a Spald...
And that Spalding was your summer activity. - Mighty Ira 00:05
And that Spalding was your summer activity.
And you would have to figure out: - Mighty Ira 00:12
And you would have to figure out:
Stickball in the open street, stickball against the wall where you have a strike zone. - Mighty Ira 00:06
Stickball in the open street, stickball against the wall whe...
That was where we learned how to mediate conflict and how to deal with bullies, - Mighty Ira 00:14
That was where we learned how to mediate conflict and how to...
Uh, king-queen, box ball, hit the penny-- - Mighty Ira 00:14
Uh, king-queen, box ball, hit the penny--
Uh, and the other thing growing up in Brooklyn, we had the Brooklyn Dodgers. - Mighty Ira 00:05
Uh, and the other thing growing up in Brooklyn, we had the B...
The Brooklyn Dodgers were, um, heroes to us and in my neighborhood, - Mighty Ira 00:12
The Brooklyn Dodgers were, um, heroes to us and in my neighb...
[man 10] The Brooklyn Dodgers, the Ebbets fielders, the Bums, - Mighty Ira 00:08
[man 10] The Brooklyn Dodgers, the Ebbets fielders, the Bums...
They were... they were really like alien and they were, uh, uh... at the time, - Mighty Ira 00:14
They were... they were really like alien and they were, uh, ...
[Norman Siegel] You know, I remember as a kid when I went on a Friday night - Mighty Ira 00:21
[Norman Siegel] You know, I remember as a kid when I went on...
Ah, I close my eyes, I still... I see it. - Mighty Ira 00:05
Ah, I close my eyes, I still... I see it.
[Ira] I had that kind of religious relationship with the Dodgers, - Mighty Ira 00:08
[Ira] I had that kind of religious relationship with the Dod...
Ebbets Field was a shrine to us and it was our cathedral. - Mighty Ira 00:06
Ebbets Field was a shrine to us and it was our cathedral.
[man 11] What other team could run the bases so nimbly, - Mighty Ira 00:08
[man 11] What other team could run the bases so nimbly,
The real genesis of my passion for... for baseball and my interest - Mighty Ira 00:08
The real genesis of my passion for... for baseball and my in...