Limited. "...They recall that after World War II increasingly self-assertive and prosperous blacks led a bitterly resisted struggle to open up fair housing opportunities outside the ghetto. After 50 years, it is a stark reminder of the steps that still need to be made toward equality. BR563.N4 T56 2003 VideoDVD : Documents the African-American religious experience during the last three centuries from the early African slaves, through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Era, and into the 21st century. [United States] : PBS Distribution, 2010. The director, Asia Norris, lives in Baltimore and is studying electronic media and film at Towson University. Since Afro Americans were not always welcome in white movie theatres and were badly represented in white movies, they made their own movies. Covers his life and career and his heart operation that gave him critical acclaim in 1893. An electronic book, also known as an e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. After Ten Years : the Court and the Schools / CBS News ; producers, Philip Scheffler, William Peters ; directed by Norman Gorin. PS3562.O75 Z655 1996 Videocassette : Audre Lorde, poet and lesbian-feminist talks about being lesbian and black in New York in the 1950s. Shows the dedication of the King memorial in Selma, Ala. Martin Luther King : the Legacy / Thames Television ; produced and directed by Rex Bloomstein ; executive producer, Ian Martin ; script by Piers Brendon and Rex Bloomstein. : Great Lakes Video Service, 1980? That's two and a half times the number that were brought to the United States from Africa. 1 DVD videodisc (71 min.) The Kings of Flint : A Documentary About Urban Farming / Michigan State University, College of Communications Arts & Sciences presents. F334.M79 B69 2001 VideoDVD : When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, the Reverend Martin Luther King was but a modest young Baptist minister suddenly thrust into the leadership of local bus boycott. Nickcole’s mother, a high school dropout, moves in fits and starts to find a meaningful job. ; 1932) / A. Burton Russell presents ; director, writer, Oscar Micheaux ; Within our gates (73 min. Viewers can watch as one of America's most exciting cultural movements evolves before their eyes and ears. Ethnic Notions by Marlon Riggs and Esther Rolle, directed by Marlon Riggs (California Newsreel, 1987) 57:46 mins. Trailer. Streaming video from the Filmakers Library : This documentary explores the Greensboro Massacre of 1979 and its aftermath. From joining the British in the Revolutionary War, to fleeing to Canada, to joining rebel communities in the U.S., the slaves sought freedom in many ways, ultimately having a far-reaching effect on the new hemisphere they were forced to inhabit. HQ77.8.G75 M35 2016 VideoDVD : "A documentary film exploring the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years. / a film by Oscar Michaeux ; Eleven P.M. (66 min.) At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was exploding, creating enormous international demand for cotton clothing. 60 min.) 2013. [United States] : PBS Distribution, c2012. He has little tolerance for "white oppressors" and little patience for blacks who neglect their own heritage....The film takes us to St. Paul's retreat where a group of men recall with tears and anger the pain of growing up neglected by their fathers. Endgame: AIDS in Black America / produced, directed and written by Renata Simone. To them Rochester was the ideal small city; it had low unemployment and thousands of high paying, skilled manufacturing jobs in ‘clean’ companies like Kodak, Bausch and Lomb and the future Xerox. 1 VHS videocassette (43 min.) It wasn't until 1970 that the high school was integrated; even then, nearly 40 more years passed before the senior prom was allowed to follow suit. 1 DVD videodisc (100 min.) Kent, CT : Creative Arts Television, 2000. ...Schmidt and Opala then went to Georgia where they found Amelia Dawley's daughter, Mary Moran, age 69, who remembered her mother singing the song. Declaration of Independence into an electronic document in 1971, Project Gutenberg was launched to create electronic copies of more texts, especially books. E185.61 .E947 1986 Videocassette : Highlights the 1957 collison between states' rights loyalists and federal authorities over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and James Meredith's 1962 challenge to the white-only enrollment policy of the University of Mississippi. Le Mozart Noir: Reviving a Legend / Media Headquarters Film & Television Inc. 2006. Richard Wright : Native Son, Author, and Activist. Out of Control : Aids in Black and White / ABC News ; produced by Elizabeth Arledge. He obtained a fellowship for her to document the disappearing folklore of the rural South. E185.61 .F743 2011 VideoDVD (Also available as part of the ROVI Film Collection): Part of the American Experience series by PBS. Also available as streaming video via Kanopy. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. Full-length preview. The final score wasn’t even close. Within the context of the civil rights, Black power and feminist movements, the trio reassess how women such as Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionized American society. ...Collateral damage: "In the Marshall Islands, local populations have been displaced from their traditional way of life by the American military presence and globalization. Her father, a Baptist preacher, carpenter and three times mayor, reminded Zora every Sunday morning that ordinary black people could be powerful poets. These dads talk openly about their experiences and the value systems they employ to raise their own families. Pioneers of African-American Cinema / Kino Classics ; Library of Congress ; curated by Charles Musser and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart ; executive producer, Paul D. Miller ; producer, Bret Wood. October – The US appeals court sides with Google instead of the Authors' Guild, declaring that Google did not violate copyright law in its book scanning project. Despite her many accomplishments, few people have heard of Willa Brown. Suspended from amateur athletics for cutting short a European tour, Owens returned to a racially divided U.S. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. E185.615 .S736 1989 Videocassette pt.1 : Presents two stories to show how young people and their families can make a difference when a racist incident takes place in their communities. The film is punctuated with the music of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and other masters of that era. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists were soon jailed, but it was the participation of the children that advanced the momentum of the Birmingham movement. West was tasered, pepper sprayed and beaten; he died in handcuffs. Love & Diane / producer/director, Jennifer Dworkin ; executive producer, Jennifer Fox ; produced by Chilmark Productions, AMIP and ARTE France. Jeffrey Wright (Basquiat) is excellent as King, capturing his charisma and rousing speeches while grounding his heroism in human vulnerability and fear, but Boycott reminds us that he was only one of the thousands of ordinary people roused into extraordinary action in the name of equality and social justice. As he said himself, "Don't call me a legend. The Celtics might be world champs, but the Rens – with jazz in their blood, and the moves to prove it – had an impressive win record....Harlem expected a slaughter against their white opponents, and they got one: in reverse. 40 min.) 1 VHS videocassette (58 min.) : J. C. Faulk describes how some neighborhoods in Baltimore have been boarded up since the riots in 1968. E185.97.R63 P385 2009 VideoDVD : Redefining race relations through public discourse helped make a legend of multitalented performer, writer, athlete and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. Rise up and call their names / produced, directed and written by Leslie D Farrell, edited by Gina H. Sohn. 3 VHS videocassettes (174 min.) E185.97.B214 F96 1986 Videocassette : Shows the work of Ella Baker, a little-known organizer in the civil rights movement of the past fifty years. As minister of Harlem's Abysinnian Baptist Church, Powell used his charismatic power in the battle for equal employment. This Far by Faith : African-American Spiritual Journeys / Blackside, Inc., The Faith Project, Inc., [in association with the Independent Television Service]. Wells & Fannie Lous Hammer, Fannie Lou Hamer : Voting Rights Activist, Faubourg Tremé : the untold story of Black New Orleans, The FBI's War on Black America : A Documentary, For Colored Boys Who've Considered Homicide, Framing an execution : ABC News & the case of Mumia Abu Jamal, Frederick Douglass : when the lion wrote history, Freedom Flyers of Tuskegee : The Tuskegee Airmen, Freedom Never Dies - The Legacy of Harry T. Moore, Furious flower I : conversations with African American poets, 1960-1995, Ghosts of Amistad : in the footsteps of the rebels, Gloria Naylor : a conversation with Gloria Naylor, Guts, Gumption, and Go-Ahead : Annie Mae Hunt Remembers, I am a man : Black masculinity in America, Identity, voice & community among new African immigrants to Kansas, longer (151 minute) 6 VHS videocassette set, In Search of the American Dream : a Story of the African-American Experience, Issues in counseling African American clients, John Henrik Clarke - A Great and Mighty Walk, John Wideman : a conversation with John Wideman, The Journey of the African-American Athlete, Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement, Jump Back, Honey : the Poetry and Performance of Herbert Woodward Martin, Keep on Walking - Joshua Nelson: The Jewish Gospel Singer, King : Go Beyond the Dream to Discover the Man, The Kings of Flint : A Documentary About Urban Farming, Leaving Cleaver : Henry Louis Gates Jr. Not ready to retire to the loneliness of senior citizens' housing, she has forged a new career in the powder room of one of Chicago's night spots....A spirited, enterprising woman who has rebounded from life's hard knocks, Ms. Williams takes pride in her profession. One of them made an astonishing claim: he was a prince of an African kingdom larger and more developed than the newly formed United States. Black Inventors: Black Men and Iron Horses directed by Bill Buckley (Rediscovery Productions, 2011) 18:21 mins. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Senator and President-Elect Barack Obama, President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney also appear. He pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood....The documentary features revealing interviews about masculinity and sexism with rappers such as Mos Def, Fat Joe, Chuck D, Jadakiss, and Busta Rhymes, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, and cultural commentators such as Michael Eric Dyson and Beverly Guy-Sheftall....Critically acclaimed for its fearless engagement with issues of race, gender violence, and the corporate exploitation of youth culture. Agitators. She served in the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, often when women were not always given equal status within these organizations. 1 DVD videodisc (ca. : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. 1 DVD videodisc (ca. For Love of Liberty : The Story of America's Black Patriots (2010) / Frank Martin, producer and director. When African Americans came to Paris / six videos by Joanne Burke ; a Blue Lion Films release in partnership with Walking the Spirit Tours. Travel to West Africa and Virginia to see the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. [San Francisco, Cal.] : Janson Media, c2004. Featuring : Kara Walker, Rza, Barbara Harris, Tyler Perry, Patrick Robinson, Valerie Montgomery-Rice, Deval Patrick, Suzanne De Passe, T. D. Jakes, Maya Rudolph, Melvin Van Peebles, Majora Carter, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Davis, Charley Pride. Access limited to the MSU community and other subscribers. Black writers were expected to confront their white readers with the injustice of racism as exemplified in Richard Wright's seminal novel Native Son. Ethnic Notions (1986) / producer, director, writer, Marlon T. Riggs. [Birmingham, Ala.] : Coker, c2005 1 DVD videodisc (31 min.) Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. The variety of cultures from which the slaves originated provided the budding states with a multitude of skills that had a dramatic effect on the diverse communities. 1 streaming video file (27 min.). It combines interviews, historical stills and unique film footage including scenes from Harlem's famous Cotton Club. We Shall Overcome / producers, Jim Brown ... [et al.] For Robeson, this propensity ultimately cost him his career, leading to his blacklisting during the McCarthy era. Streaming video from Filmakers Library : This engaging film is a vibrant portrait of pluralistic 21st-century Jewish identities across the globe. 27 minutes. : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. E185.97.B34 M379 2009 VideoDVD : American history is filled with notable African American women. In part 6 John Widemen candidly discusses th dilemma of the committed African American intellectual torn between the urban underclass and a predominantly white, middle class literary audience. What policies and investment decisions create living environments that harm, or enhance, the health of residents? E185.97.L5 M3533 1992 Videocassette : A documentary showing the life of Malcolm X, his leadership in the Black Muslim movement, and his influence on black Americans and African nations. In the context of the Harlem Renaissance and segregationist America, Cab Calloway: Sketches explores the jazz legend’s beginnings and musical milestones, using archival footage, animation based on caricatures, and interviews. 1 DVD videodisc (ca. Practiced and performed by both women and men, it is still a game where women shine. Solomon Northup's Odyssey : Twelve Years As A Slave / Past America, Inc. ; producer, Yanna Kroyt Brandt ; writers, Lou Potter, Samm-Art Williams ; director, Gordon Parks. [3] By the early 2010s, e-books had begun to overtake hardcover by overall publication figures in the U.S.[4], The main reasons for people buying e-books are possibly lower prices, increased comfort (as they can buy from home or on the go with mobile devices) and a larger selection of titles. 1 VHS videocassette (ca. Though transformed in plantation culture to a children's rhyme, there was also continuity since the song was passed down by women on both sides. 3. He titled it The Readies, playing off the idea of the "talkie". Identity, voice & community among new African immigrants to Kansas / a project of the Kansas African Studies Center with support of the Kansas Humanities Council. (75 min. Nonetheless, he makes a convincing case as to who the perpetrators were and why they weren't brought to justice. 27 min.) KF4153.36 .S45 1993 Videocassette 1 videocassette, 1 poster, 1 sheet : Docudrama recounts the remarkable legal strategy and social struggle that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. [San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, c2008. Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2008] 1 DVD videodisc (60 min.) In 1961, segregation seemed to have an overwhelming grip on American society. : sd. It also shows how he went to school in Franklin County, not as a student, but to carry books for one of James Burrough's daughters. 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