The high quality video resources in this collection are, themselves, testimony to the richness, diversity, dynamism and universality of the African American experience. They provide valuable historical, cultural, political and sociological chronicles about the people and events that have shaped America from slavery to present day. This comprehensive perspective provides a powerful context to understand current issues of race and prejudice.
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A biography of the labor, activist and pioneer civil rights leader who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters led the fight to desegregate the military and defense industries, and planted the seeds for the 1963 March on Washington. MORE...
During two eventful months in 1968, what began as a local labor dispute between African American sanitation workers and the white power structure of Memphis grew into the devastating tragedy of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a national struggle for racial and economic justice. It marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement MORE...
From 1860 to 1920 hundreds of US counties expelled all of their African American inhabitants. Banished visits three of these still all white towns today. Meanwhile the descendants of those displaced and disinherited seek redress. MORE...
VHS and DVD, 34 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette or DVD, 1969
In interviews, Huey P. Newton describes the origins of the Panthers, Minister of Information Eldridge Clear explains their appeal to the Black community and Chairman Bobby Seals explains their 10 Point Program. San Francisco State: On Strike recounts how a student strike succeeded in creating the first Ethnic Studies department on a college campus in America. MORE...
VHS and DVD, 86 minutes, 1998, Facilitator Guide Available
Archival footage and interviews trace the history of African American newspapers and journalism from the Antebellum period to the Civil Rights Movement. MORE...
This film documents the history of the leading figures, institutions and events that transformed the American stage in the wake of Civil Rights activism. It includes interviews with Ossie Davis, Amiri Baraka, James Earl Jones and Ntozake Shange, and clips from many landmark plays. MORE...
Brick by Brick Tracks the landmark case, U.S. vs Yonkers, which challenged housing and educational discrimination in the North and pushed for desegregation. MORE...
