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The quintissential video collection on African American life, history, literature and culture.

African American History
Distinguished videos on African American history.

A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom
At the River I Stand: The '68 Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black Panther: In their own words
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin: a controversial figure in the Civil Rights Movement
Color Adjustment: Blacks in prime time television
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Freedom on My Mind: The black freedom struggle in Mississippi
For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker
Goin' to Chicago: The saga of the Black Migration
Homecoming: A History of the Black Farmer
I Shall Not Be Removed: The life of Marlon Riggs
The Language You Cry In: From 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia.
Legacy: Breaking the cycle of welfare dependency.
Miles of Smiles/Years of Struggle: The story of the Pullman Porters
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property: The significance of Nat Turner's revolt, how fictions and history collide.
Oh Freedom After While: The Saga of the 1939 Sharecroppers Strike
One Shot: the photographs of black American life.
Out of Obscurity: A look at when freedom was overdue at the library. Actors recreate a historic sit-in in this documentary narrated by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: The definitive chronicle of segregation in America
The Road to Brown: The man who killed Jim Crow
San Francisco State: On Strike: The student strike that started the Ethnic Studies movement.
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning: The travels of Gatemouth Moore
A Son of Africa: The Slave Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African
The Strange Demise of Jim Crow: An urban case study
Strange Fruit: dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written.
Struggles in Steel: The fight for equal opportunity
Trouble Behind: Racism up close and personal
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices
We Shall Overcome: The song that moved a nation
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues: The music, the women, the legacy