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.
Download a PDF of our latest African American Perspectives print catalog here.
DVD, 7 episodes: 1x56mins, 6x26mins, 2008, dual language disc - Menus, Audio and Subtitles in English and Spanish, Spanish on the Second Audio Channel Facilitator Guide Available
UNNATURAL CAUSES, for the first time on film, sounds the alarm about our disturbing socioeconomic and racial inequities in health - and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. There's much more to our health than bad habits, healthcare or unlucky genes. The social conditions in which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our well-being and longevity. 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...
Documents the first battle to implement the Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision fought in the small, rural town of Hoxie, Arkansas. MORE...
VHS and DVD, 3 episodes - 56 minutes each, 2003, Facilitator Guide Available
An eye-opening three-part series confronting our myths and misconceptions about race through the distinct lenses of science, history and social institutions. MORE...
Emancipation ended slavery but only to replace it an American form of apartheid, euphemistically known as Jim Crow, used to keep African Americans as second class citizens. This four-part series constitutes a major cinematic achievement covering the years between Reconstruction and Civil Rights. MORE...
The history of segregation sanctioned by the 1898 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, and the visionary legal campaign against it that led to the triumph of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. 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...
This documentary reconstructs the story of the Mississippi freedom movement of the early 1960s and the voter registration drives, which led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. MORE...
dual language disc - Menus, Audio and Subtitles in English and Spanish, Spanish on the Second Audio Channel
