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Black Studies in Video brings together documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. Contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues. This collection is part of Academic Video Online.
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Find these videos and more in our Audiovisual Collection, located on the lower level of Plough Library.
Citizen King: 1963-1968 by PBS Home Video(DVD) This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 and comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose oratory is etched into the minds of millions of Americans, a civil rights activist whose words and image are more hotly contested, negotiated and sold than almost anyone else's in American history.
Call Number: 323 C58 2004
ISBN: 0793695058
Publication Date: 2004
Eyes on the Prize by PBS Home Video(DVD - 7 Discs) The Emmy Award-winning landmark civil rights series, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, produced by Blackside, tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today.
Call Number: 323.4 E94 2006
ISBN: 0793692628
Publication Date: 2006
Little Rock Central 50 Years Later by HBO Video(DVD) In 1957, Little Rock Central became a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement. African-American students were not allowed into the building. The film examines the racial equality, education, and class at the high school today.
The HistoryMakers is the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive. By recording the stories of both the well-known and unsung African Americans from diverse backgrounds, The HistoryMakers seeks to preserve and elevate the cultural equity of the African American community to the level of its historical record, as well as to increase the cultural understanding of present and future generations.
Contains millions of digital movies uploaded by Internet Archive users. Content ranges from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many videos are available for free download.