Academic Search Ultimate from EBSCO offers academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos covering virtually every discipline from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
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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.
Over 500 videos on African American Studies topics from the Films on Demand database.
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.
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Digital Collections
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African-American Migration ExperienceFrom the New York Public Library Schomburg Center, offers essays, books, articles, and manuscripts, 8,300 illustrations, 100 lesson plans, and 60 maps to aid in understanding peoples, places, and events that shaped African America's migration over the past four hundred years. (Some map animations no longer work due to outdated Flash technology.)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Civil Rights Digital LibraryThis major collection includes a digital video archive of historical news film, connections to related digital collections on a national scale, encyclopedia articles, and more.
HistoryMakersNational archive of 3,000+ video oral histories of African Americans.
North American Slave NarrativesBooks, memoirs, and articles providing autobiographical account of slavery. Accounts are from published works up until 1920.