AFRICAN AMERICAN
PERSPECTIVES
The quintessential
video collection on African American life, history, literature and culture.
Please select from the History courses on the left or scroll
down.
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
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