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AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES

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


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Black Migration
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
The Language You Cry In: From 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia.
Family Across the Sea: African Americans' links to Africa
Goin' to Chicago
: The saga of the Black Migration
One Shot: the photographs of black American life.
Richard Wright : Black Boy
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues: The music, the women, the legacy

Civil Rights History
A. Philip Randolph - For Jobs and Freedom: A portrait of the unsung Civil Rights hero and labor leader
At the River I Stand: The '68 Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin: a controversial figure in the Civil Rights Movement
Black Panther: In their own words
The Black Press
: Soldiers Without Swords
Blacks & Jews: Exploring the racial divide
Color Adjustment: Blacks in prime time television
Ethnic Notions
: Black people in white minds
Freedom on My Mind
: The black freedom struggle in Mississippi
Goin' to Chicago
: The saga of the Black Migration
Homecoming
: A History of the Black Farmer
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
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
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 Road to Brown: The man who killed Jim Crow
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
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices
We Shall Overcome
: The song that moved a nation

Constitutional/Legal History
Freedom on My Mind: The black freedom struggle in Mississippi
Homecoming: A History of the Black Farmer
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 Road to Brown
: The man who killed Jim Crow
Struggles in Steel
: The fight for equal opportunity

Historiography
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
The Language You Cry In: From 18th century Sierra Leone to
the Gullah people of present-day Georgia.
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices

Intellectual History
Aimé Césaire: Une voix pour l'histoire (A Voice for History)
Black Athena: Did Ancient Greece start in Africa?
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
: The life and work of the post-colonial theorist
Lumumba: La mort du prophete (Lumumba: Death of a Prophet)

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices

Jim Crow / Southern History
A. Philip Randolph - For Jobs and Freedom: A portrait of the unsung Civil Rights hero and labor leader
At the River I Stand: The '68 Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Family Across the Sea: African Americans' links to Africa
Freedom on My Mind: The black freedom struggle in Mississippi
Goin' to Chicago: The saga of the Black Migration
Homecoming: A History of the Black Farmer
The Language You Cry In: From 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia.
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
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
Richard Wright
: Black Boy
The Road to Brown: The man who killed Jim Crow
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

Journalism History
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
One Shot: the photographs of black American life.
Race Against Prime Time: Constructing what's news

Labor History
A. Philip Randolph - For Jobs and Freedom: A portrait of the unsung Civil Rights hero and labor leader
At the River I Stand: The '68 Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Homecoming: A History of the Black Farmer
Miles of Smiles/Years of Struggle: The story of the Pullman Porters
Oh Freedom After While: The Saga of the 1939 Sharecroppers Strike
Struggles in Steel: The fight for equal opportunity


(see also our Media at Work collection)

Slavery
Family Across the Sea: African Americans' links to Africa
The Language You Cry In: From 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia.
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property: The significance of Nat Turner's revolt, how fictions and history collide.
A Son of Africa: The Slave Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African

Social and Cultural History
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
Color Adjustment: Blacks in prime time television
The Black Press
: Soldiers Without Swords
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Family Across the Sea
: African Americans' links to Africa
Freedom on My Mind: The black freedom struggle in Mississippi
Goin' to Chicago
: The saga of the Black Migration
Homecoming
: A History of the Black Farmer
The Language You Cry In: From 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia.

Miles of Smiles/Years of Struggle: The story of the Pullman Porters
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
Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
Richard Wright : Black Boy
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning: The travels of Gatemouth Moore
Struggles in Steel
: The fight for equal opportunity
Trouble Behind
: Racism up close and personal
We Shall Overcome: The song that moved a nation
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues: The music, the women, the legacy

(See also our The Sixties - on Video collection)

US History Since 1865
A. Philip Randolph - For Jobs and Freedom: A portrait of the unsung Civil Rights hero and labor leader
At the River I Stand: The '68 Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Color Adjustment
: Blacks in prime time television
Ethnic Notions: Black people in white minds
Goin' to Chicago: The saga of the Black Migration
Homecoming: A History of the Black Farmer
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 Road to Brown: The man who killed Jim Crow
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
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues: The music, the women, the legacy

(See also our The Sixties - on Video collection)

Urban History
At the River I Stand: The '68 Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Goin' to Chicago: The saga of the Black Migration
Homecoming: A History of the Black Farmer
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
Race Against Prime Time: Constructing what's news

The Strange Demise of Jim Crow
: An urban case study
Struggles in Steel
: The fight for equal opportunity