300 miles to freedom c2011
"On June 4, 1844, John W. Jones and four of his companions headed north. They were fugitive slaves who escaped bondage in Leesburg, Virginia. 300 miles to freedom chronicles John W. Jones' journey to freedom on the Underground Railroad and his remarkable life as a free man in Elmira, New York. The filmmakers traveled Jones' route to freedom, and tell his story through the voices they meet along the way...The film also celebrates those who quietly stood up to injustice by helping slaves escape on the Underground Railroad and by fighting for their freedom through the abolitionist movement."--Container. 1 videodisc (41 min.)
MEDIA 10-4301
4 little girls 1998
Spike Lee and Sam Pollard
The Birmingham Campaign was launched in 1963. 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. They marched alongside the adults and were taken to jail with them as well. The 16th St. Baptist Church was close to the downtown area, it was an ideal location to hold rallies and meetings. On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, dynamite planted by the Ku Klux Klan, exploded in the building...under the fallen debris the bodies of [four] girls were found--Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley died because of the color of their skin. 1 videocassette (102 min.) DVD
DANA MEDIA 1566 10-384
Adam Clayton Powell 2009
Richard Kilberg, Phyllis Garland, Yvonne Smith, Julian Bond, Channel Four Films (Firm), Cine Information, Inc, RKB Productions, Docurama (Firm), and New Video Group
A look at the most influential and flamboyant civil rights leader in America from the 1930s through the 1950s. From his emergence as a pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, to his riotous political climb and eventual ruin. He had an illustrious but controversial career. He had multiple marriages, taunted the white establishment, his desegregation of Congress, and his shameful smearing of Martin Luther King Jr. 1 videodisc (ca. 54 min.)
MEDIA 10-2040 2-1382
Black Panther miscellany 2001?
Four archival films from the late 1960s presenting the political leaders and activities of the Black Panther Party. 1 videodisc (60 min.)
MEDIA 10-4478
Black Panther San Francisco State: on strike 2004?
Black Panther: Interviews with founding members, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale, and documentary footage of the organization's meetings and marches reveal a pragmatic and still relevant outline for African American communities' self-determination and development. San Francisco State: on strike: Recounts how students of color led a six month long strike in the fall of 1968 at San Francisco State to make their university's curriculum and admission policies more relevant and succeeded in creating the establishment of the first Ethnic Studies department in America. 1 videodisc (35 min.)
MEDIA 10-4822
Black power mixtape 1967-1975 c2011
Göran Hugo Olsson, Annika Rogell, Joslyn Barnes, Danny Glover, Axel Arnö, Angela Y Davis, Stokely Carmichael , Story AB (Firm), Louverture Films (Firm), Sveriges television, and IFC Films
"THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television"--From mrqe.com. 1 videodisc (96 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3080
The Black press soldiers without swords 1998
Presents a history of African-American newspapers and journalism from the mid-19th century through the 20th century. Tells of the struggles against censorship and discrimination and for freedom of the press, with commentary by historians, journalists, and photojournalists. 1 videodisc (86 min.)
MEDIA 10-4119
CBS reports the Harlem temper 2002
Stephen Fleischman and Harry Reasoner
In this 1963 CBS News special, CBS reporter Harry Reasoner examines the economic and political scene in Harlem, a study in miniature of black leadership in conflict and crisis throughout America. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
DANA MEDIA 1865 10-1451
Charlotte Forten's mission experiment in freedom c2009
This is the story of a hero, perhaps not a traditional hero. Charlotte Forten was an extraordinary young woman. As a part of President Lincoln's 'great experiment, ' she journeyed south to Sea Island, where she sought to give newly freed black children a decent education and the chance for a better life. In many ways the story is as remarkable as the lady who lived it. 1 videodisc (113 min.)
MEDIA 10-4094
Death of a prophet 2009
Woodie King, Morgan Freeman, Yolanda King, Mansoor Najee-Ullah, Ossie Davis, National Black Touring Circuit, Inc, and Turn Up The Music, Inc
"Based on actual events, this film celebrates the lasting impact that Malcolm X had on American history"--Container. 1 videodisc (60 min.)
MEDIA 10-1825
Doing as they can 2006?
Joshua Brown, Stephen Brier, and American Social History Project
In this dramatized narrative illustrated with photographs and illustrations from nineteenth century books and periodicals, a fugitive woman slave describes life, work and day-to-day resistance to slavery on a cotton plantation in North Carolina during the 1840s and 1850s. She escapes to the North in the 1850s, only to discover that her former master's legal power extends even to the free city of New York. 1 videodisc (58 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3212
Dr. Toer's amazing magic lantern show 2006
Bret Eynon, Stephen Breir, and American Social History Project
"In the years following the Civil War, a company of players travels the South performing for audiences of African Americans recently freed from slavery. Dr. J.W. Toer's show presents the many meanings of freedom and the ways African Americans struggled to realize the promise of Emancipation in the face of growing violence and represssion"--Container. 1 videodisc (21 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3209
Duke Ellington's Washington c2004
Hedrick Smith, Stanley Nelson, Hedrick Smith Productions, South Carolina Educational Television Network, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Profiles the Uptown area of Washington, D.C., which was the cultural capital of black America in the early years of the 20th century. Centered around U Street, it nurtured many dynamic leaders, including Duke Ellington. Combines archival footage and photographs with interviews that describe the community's heyday, decline, and renewal. 1 videodisc (57 min.)
MEDIA 10-861
Eyes on the prize America's civil rights movement 2006
Henry Hampton, Judith Vecchione, Steve Fayer, Juan Williams, Orlando Bagwell, Callie Crossley, James A DeVinney, Madison Davis Lacy, Paul Jeffrey Stekler, Jacqueline Shearer, Sam Pollard, Sheila Curran Bernard, Terry Kay Rockefeller, Thomas Ott, Louis Massiah, Julian Bond, Blackside, Inc, PBS Video, and WGBH Video (Firm)
Vols. 1-3 tell the story of America's civil rights years from 1954 to 1965; vols. 4-7 examine the new America from 1966 to 1985, from community power to the human alienation of urban poverty. 7 videodiscs (120 min. each)
MEDIA MEDIA 10-809 v.1 - 10-809 v.7 2-4154 to 2-4167
Faubourg Tremé the untold story of Black New Orleans c2008
Dawn Logsdon, Lolis Eric Elie, Lucie Faulknor, JoNell Kennedy, Serendipity Films LLC, Louisiana Public Broadcasting, WYES-TV (Television station : New Orleans, La.), California Newsreel (Firm), Independent Television Service, and National Black Programming Consortium
Long ago during slavery, Faubourg Tremé was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South and a hotbed of political ferment. Here black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor co-habitated, collaborated, and clashed to create much of what defines New Orleans culture up to the present day. Founded as a suburb (or faubourg in French) of the original colonial city, the neighborhood developed during French rule and many families like the Trevignes kept speaking French as their first language until the late 1960s. 1 videodisc (68 min.)
MEDIA 10-1265
For love of liberty the story of America's black patriots : [a film] c2010
Halle Berry, Avery Brooks, Frank Martin, Colin L Powell, Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby, Danny Glover, John Travolta, and Eleventh Day Entertainment, Inc
Gain an unprecedented look at the experiences and accomplishments of African Americans in the military, and learn why such a group of heroic men and women would fight for the freedom of others that they themselves weren't able to enjoy. Hosted by Halle Berry with an introduction by Colin Powell, and features the voices of Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby, Danny Glover, John Travolta, and many more. 3 videodiscs (ca. 538 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2421
Freedom on my mind 2004
Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford, Michael Chandler, Rhonnie Lynn Washington, Mary Watkins, Clarity Educational Productions, and California Newsreel (Firm)
Revisits the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s when a handful of idealistic young activists believed they could change history -- and did. In 1964, organizers of the voter registration drive, fearing for their lives and hoping to attract the nation and federal government to their plight, recruited 1,000 mostly white college students from around the country to join them for Freedom Summer. Three students were murdered but the drive succeeded in signing up 80,000 members, mostly poverty-stricken sharecroppers, maids and day-laborers who confronted jail, beatings and even murder for the right to vote. 1 videodisc (110 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2316
Freedom's call c2006
Richard Breyer, George Kilpatrick, Dorothy Butler Gilliam, Ernest C Withers, Annette Adams-Brown, Filmakers Library, inc, and W & B Productions
"Two African-American journalists who covered the events of the Civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties return to the deep South where it all took place. The journalists are Dorothy Gilliam,who later became first female African American reporter at The Washington Post, and Ernest Withers, renowned photographer whose photos were published in the black press, The Washington Post, and The New York Times ... Photographs, newspaper clips and eyewitness accounts brings the heroic struggle alive, a struggle in which these two courageous journalists participated and recorded for posterity. "--Container. 1 videodisc (50 min.)
MEDIA 10-1679
Freedom summer 2014
In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over ten memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states, even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death. 1 videodisc (115 min.)
MEDIA 10-5036
Fundi the story of Ella Baker 1981
Shows the work of Ella Baker, a little-known organizer in the civil rights movement of the past fifty years. Documents the struggle of Black people for justice and equality. 1 videocassette (48 min.)
MEDIA 10-3556
Grace Lee Boggs c2007
Kae Halonen, University of Michigan--Dearborn, and Campus Media Services
Grace Lee Boggs was interviewed by Kae Halonen as part of the Motor City Voices Project. She was one of the most significant activist intellectuals to participate in the turbulent late 1960s in Detroit. She became an editor for the Correspondence, a publication exploring the limits of Marxist theory. She met Jimmy Boggs, a prolific political writer himself. They were married in 1953 and moved to Detroit where they collaborated on the Manifesto for a Black Revolutionary Party, which was presented at the National Black Economic Conference, and was an influential document for the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Convinced that it was not sufficient to organize only at the point of production, Boggs expanded the scope of her political work through groups like Gardening Angels, which works with inner-city youth in Detroit. Working together with members of the Boggs Center, she actively promotes alternative models for sustainable economies. 1 videodisc (90 min.)
MEDIA 10-4343
Hoxie the first stand 2003
David Appleby, Julian Bond, Michael Bacon, University of Memphis, and California Newsreel (Firm)
"How many people know that the first battle to implement the Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision was fought in the small, rural town of Hoxie, Arkansas? Or that it became a flashpoint because it offered a peaceful alternative to the bloody Massive Resistance campaigns of the next decade? Hoxie sparked the first deployment of federal agents in support of integration and the first court order overturning state segregation laws. But it also showed that unscrupulous politicians would fan unfounded fears into violent anti-government fury, all to reminiscent of similar movements today." -- Container. Includes interviews with civil rights figures, residents, and historians, and features archival footage and re-enactments of the events described in the film. 1 videodisc (56 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2281
I am somebody 199-?
Madeline Anderson, Moe Foner, American Foundation on Nonviolence, and First Run/Icarus Films
Focuses on the strike by Black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C., in 1969. Shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of union and civil rights groups. Highlights Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy, and Walter Reuther speaking and working in defense of the workers. 1 videodisc (30 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2608
"I have a dream ..." the life of Martin Luther King, Jr 2009
"This documentary, originally produced for CBS News, includes portions of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's most famous speech as it tells the story of this dedicated man's life and the forces that brought him to leadership of his people. Using news footage from the civil rights movement of the 1950's and '60's, 'I have a dream' illustrates a watershed era of U.S. history and highlights the philosophies and ideals that Dr. King came to exemplify."--Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 33 min.)
MEDIA 10-5139
July '64 2006?
Carvin Eison, ImageWordSound (Firm), Independent Television Service, WXXI (Television station : Rochester, N.Y.), California Newsreel (Firm), and National Black Programming Consortium
In the summer of 1964, a three-night riot erupted in two predominantly black neighborhoods in downtown Rochester, New York--the culmination of decades of poverty, joblessness and racial discrimination and a significant event in the Civil Rights era. Using archival footage and interviews with those who were present, the film explores the genesis and outcome of these three nights. 1 videodisc (54 min)
MEDIA 10-753
The language you cry in the story of a Mende song 1998
Alvaro Toepke, Angel Serrano, and California Newsreel (Firm)
Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and in the 1990s scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone. Dramatically demonstrates how African Americans retained links with their African past, and concludes with the visit of the Gullah family which had preserved the song to the Mende village, where villagers re-enact the ancient burial rites for them. 1 videodisc (52 min.)
MEDIA DANA 10-755 1299
Liberators fighting on two fronts in World War II c2006
Tells the unknown story of African-American battalions, focusing on the heroic actions of the 761st, which spearheaded General Patton's Third Army and helped liberate the concentration camps at Buchenwald, Dachau and Lambach. 1 videodisc (84 min.)
MEDIA 10-4862
Mountains that take wing Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama : a conversation on life, struggles & liberation 2009
C. A Griffith, H. L. T Quan, Angela Y Davis, Yuri Kochiyama, Quad Productions, and Women Make Movies (Firm)
Internationally renowned scholar, professor and writer Angela Davis, and 89-year-old grassroots organizer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Yuri Kochiyama share intimate conversations about personal histories and influences that shaped them and their shared experiences in some of the most important social movements in 20th century United States"--Container. 1 videodisc (97 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3573
Negroes to hire Slave life and culture on Missouri farms c2004
Gary Jenkins and Life Documentaries
As the land wore out in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, settlers moved west to Missouri bringing the system of slavery with them. Hear directly from the mouths of former slaves about their lives via recreated recordings of the Missouri Slave Narratives by the Federal Writers Project. 1 videodisc (57 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2274
Neshoba the price of freedom 2010
Micki Dickoff, Tony Pagano, and First-Run Features (Firm)
Neshoba: the price of freedom tells the story of a Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, an event dramatized in the Oscar-winning film Mississippi Burning. Although Klansmen bragged about what they did in 1964, no one was held accountable until 2005, when the State indicted preacher Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old notorious racist and mastermind of the murders. Through exclusive interviews with Killen, intimate interviews with the victims' families, and candid interviews with black and white Neshoba county citizens still struggling with their town's violent past, the film explores whether the prosecution of one unrepentant Klansman constitutes justice and whether healing and reconciliation are possible without telling the unvarnished truth--Container. 1 videodisc (87 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3488
Night catches us 2010
Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Jamie Hector, Wendell Pierce, Seán Costello, Jason Orans, Ron Simons, Tanya Hamilton, Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm), Magnolia Pictures (Firm), SimonSays Entertainment (Firm), and Gigantic Pictures
In 1976, complex political and emotional forces are set in motion when a young man returns to the race-torn Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age during the Black Power movement. 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2399
Nightjohn c2005, 1996
Charles Burnett, Dennis Stuart Murphy, Beau Bridges, Carl Lumbly, Lorraine Toussaint, Allison Jones, Gary Paulsen, Hallmark Entertainment (Firm), Sarabande Productions, Disney Channel (Firm), Echo Bridge Home Entertainment (Firm), and Signboard Hill Productions
The story of a young slave girl and the man who, at great risk to each other, teaches her to read, opening up a whole new world for her. 1 videodisc (96 min.)
MEDIA 10-1443
Panther 1997
Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles, Preston Holmes, Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Joe Don Baker, Courtney B Vance , Tyrin Turner, Marcus Chong, Anthony Griffith, Bobby Brown, Nefertiti, James Russo, Jenifer Lewis, Chris Rock, Roger Guenveur Smith, Melvin Van Peebles, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Firm), Working Title Films, Tribeca Productions, MVP Films, and PolyGram Video (Firm)
A dramatization of the clash between the Black Panthers, led by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, and the FBI, in Oakland, California in 1968. 1 videodisc (123 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3606
Passin' it on the Black Panthers' search for justice c2006
Dhoruba Bin Wahad, John Valedez, Peter Miller, Susanne Rostock, Docurama (Firm), and New Video Group
"The story of one man in search of justice who is wronged by the nation with which he is at odds. Part indictment, part redemption tale, this film offers startling insight [into] the Black Panther Party's role in a social revolution, and the New York Police Department and the FBI's devious targeting of one of the organization's most fervent leaders--Dhoruba Bin Wahad (born Richard Moore)"--Container. 1 videodisc (102 min.)
MEDIA 10-1894
A place of rage 200-?
Prominent black women comment upon experiences of African American women, upon racial discrimination and its effects upon the American culture and make suggestions which they hope will improve the future. Includes historical footage of civil rights movement in the 1960s. 1 videodisc (52 min.)
MEDIA 10-4289
A place out of time the Bordentown School 2010
Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards, Ruby Dee, Hudson West Productions, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), and PBS Home Video
The little-known story of the last all-black, publicly funded, coeducational boarding school north of the Mason-Dixon Line. In a segregated society, the Bordentown School was an educational utopia and cultural oasis for black citizens in the northeast and beyond for more than 70 years. Founded in 1886, and forced to close in 1955 after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the story of Bordentown is also the story of black education in America across three centuries. 1 videodisc (57 min.)
MEDIA 10-1850
Rebel hearts Sarah & Angelina Grimke and the anti-slavery movement 2011
Betsy Newman, Terese Svoboda, and South Carolina Educational Television Network
"Rebel Hearts is a captivating documentary about the abolitionists Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the anti-slavery movement of the early 19th Century. Daughters of a wealthy slave-holding family from Charleston, SC, the Grimke sisters astonished everyone-family, friends and abolitionists-when they left the south to become the first female agents of the anti-slavery movement. Their passionate rhetoric and fiery speaking style led them to the front ranks of the abolitionist movement and set the stage for the establishment of the women's rights' movement. A combination of interviews -- including one with historian Gerda Lerner -- dramatic performances and rare archival footage creates a lively portrait of these extraordinary women and their contribution to American history"--Publisher's website. 1 videodisc (NTSC, 60 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3659
Rosewood 2007
John Singleton, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Gregory Poirier, Jon Peters, Warner Bros, Peters Entertainment (Firm), New Deal Productions, and Warner Home Video (Firm)
The true story of the 1923 razing of a black town in Florida, many of its people murdered over a lie. But some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people. 1 videodisc (131 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3409
Scarred justice the Orangeburg Massacre 1968 c2009
Bestor Cram, Judy Richardson, Charles Scott, John DeLancey, John Kusiak, P. Andrew Willis, Northern Light Productions, Independent Television Service, National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and California Newsreel (Firm)
"Everyone remembers the four white students slain at Kent State University in 1970, but most have never heard of the three black students killed in Orangeburg, South Carolina two years earlier ... When police and student demonstrators clashed at a segregated bowling alley, South Carolina officials called in the State Police and National Guard. More than 500 law enforcement officers were soon on the scene and tanks had cordoned off the black schools of South Carolina State College and Clafin University. Suddenly gunshots rang out. When the smoke cleared, three black students lay dead, twenty-eight more were wounded, mostly in the back and side. Though officers claimed self-defense, the FBI found no evidence of any students shooting from State's campus. Interviews with survivors of the Massacre, as well as journalists, the governor and a patrolman who had fired at the students reconstruct the horror of that night. Although the Justice Department charged nine officers with abuse of power, all were acquitted by a South Carolina jury. Forty years later no one has been held accountable"--Container. 1 videodisc (57 min.)
MEDIA 10-1901
Slavery by another name c2012
Sam Pollard, Sheila Curran Bernard, Laurence Fishburne, Douglas A Blackmon, TPT National Productions, Two Dollars and a Dream (Firm), and PBS Home Video
Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force. 1 videodisc (86 min.) :
MEDIA 10-3421
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 20: Black power, Black education and Pan Africanism 2011
Natalie Bullock Brown, Joseph Brandon Johnson, Courtland Cox, Geri Augusto, Greg E Carr, Sylvia Saverson Hill, SNCC Legacy Project, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), 50th Anniversary Conference, Ascension Productions, and California Newsreel (Firm)
Conference prodeedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement. Volume 20: Throughout the ten years of its formal organizational existence, SNCC did a variety of things it felt necessary: sit-ins, freedom rides, campaigns aimed at the desegregation of public facilities, voter registration drives and the organizing of political parties. Doing what is necessary is a tradition of Black struggle. Pan Africanism, independent Black education and empowerment are all foundations of the Black struggle. In this context of deep political and cultural currents, we look at SNCC in relation to the political struggles of the 1960s. In addition, we look at the institutions beyond U.S. borders which SNCC's ideas helped inform. 1 videodisc (89 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2700
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 23: The Black church and black struggle 2011
Natalie Bullock Brown, Bernard LaFayette, Nelson Johnson, David Forbes, SNCC Legacy Project, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), 50th Anniversary Conference, Ascension Productions, and California Newsreel (Firm)
Conference prodeedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement. Volume 23: The Black church was born in struggle in the midst of slavery, and despite laws and vigilante actions targeting it for destruction the church has not only survived, but has played a sustained and central role over more than 300 years of Black struggle in America. This panel of Black churchmen, with very active audience participation, reflects and examines the historical role of the church, its specific role in the Movement of the 1960s, and the lessons of that struggle for today . 1 videodisc (89 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2703
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 33: Special program: Dick Gregory, "They're asking different questions today" 2011
Natalie Bullock Brown, Dick Gregory, SNCC Legacy Project, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), 50th Anniversary Conference, Ascension Productions, and California Newsreel (Firm)
Conference proceedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement. Volume 33: "When you finally get a Black President you get a nice, polite, well-behaved educated one who ain't mad." Gregory was one of a handful of prominent entertainers who consistently supported SNCC. And he was one of the very few of this handful who regularly put his own life on the line. As he explains it: "I made all the money I needed to make, then I bumped into y'all and found out that there's another bank." Dick Gregory acknowledges recent progress in modern politics while addressing continuing problems. 1 videodisc (67 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2713
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 4: SNCC builds an organization 2011
Natalie Bullock Brown, Betty Garman Robinson, Judy Richardson, Margaret Lauren Herring, Tamio Wakayama, SNCC Legacy Project, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), 50th Anniversary Conference, Ascension Productions, and California Newsreel (Firm)
Conference prodeedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement. Volume 4: This session presents a behind-the-scenes look at the people and elements that kept SNCC running as an organization. The panelists, former SNCC staffers (many of whom also worked "in the field" as well), represent some of the glue that held SNCC together as an organization. Their work was vital in addressing communications to transportation and the provision of other resources for SNCC members. 1 videodisc (77 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2684
Stokely Carmichael, Roundhouse, London, 22 July 1967 2013?
In July 1967, Stokely Carmichael attended the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation, an international gathering of leftwing activists and intellectuals held at the Roundhouse in London. At this historically important event, Carmichael gave two speeches and fielded questions from an often antagonistic audience, addressing black power, civil rights, black nationalism and post-colonialism. During the first, he shares the stage with Allen Ginsberg. In between, a gathering of young white teens discuss their own opinions on what occurred during his first speech. 1 videodisc (59 min.)
MEDIA 10-4477
Traces of the trade a story from the deep north 2008
Katrina Browne, Alla Kovgan, Ebb Pod Productions, and California Newsreel (Firm)
"Filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain a powerful new perspective on the black/white divide" -- Container. 1 videodisc (86 min.)
MEDIA 10-1367
Tuskegee c1998 2004
Between the years of 1932 and 1971, the U.S. government used approximately 600 African Americans from Macon County, Alabama, as human guinea pigs for syphilis research under the guise of treatment for "bad blood." This program includes an interview with one of the last surviving participants, Herman Shaw; explains the role of Nurse Rivers; and presents the medical establishment's justification for disguising racism as legitimate medical research. 1 videodisc (23 min.)
MEDIA 10-4045
The Tuskegee airmen 1995
Robert Markowitz, William C Carraro, Paris Quallos, Trey Ellis, Roy Hutchinson, Robert Williams, T. S Cook, Larry Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B Vance, Andre Braugher, Chris McDonald, John Lithgow, and Cuba Gooding
A celebration of the "Fighting 99th", the first squadron of black combat fighters in World War II, who battled prejudice in training at Tuskegee, Ala., the Axis in North Africa and Europe, bigotted officers assigned to oversee them, and a U.S. congressman out to prove they were unfit to serve. 1 videocassette (106 min.)
DANA MEDIA 1051 10-171
Unchained memories readings from the slave narratives c2003
Jacqueline Glover, Thomas Lennon, Mark Jonathan Harris, Ed Bell, Angela Bassett, Michael Boatman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Don Cheadle, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Robert Guillaume, Jasmine Guy, C. C. H Pounder, Roger Guenveur Smith, Courtney B Vance, Vanessa Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Alfre Woodard, Whoopi Goldberg, Juliet Weber, HBO Documentary Films, Library of Congress, and HBO Video (Firm)
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930's, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. In the midst of the Great Depression, journalists and writers traveled the country to record the memories of the last generation of African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historical record. 1 videodisc (75 min.)
DANA. MEDIA 22 10-405
An unlikely friendship c2002
Diane Bloom, Florence Gray Soltys, Lewis Lipsitz, Ann Atwater, C. P Ellis, and In-Focus (Firm)
In July 1971, as the Southern city of Durham, N.C., struggled to cope with the racial upheaval of desegregation, community leaders gathered to discuss civic and school conditions. The 10-day meeting was co-chaired by Ann Atwater, an activist representing the Black community, and C.P. Ellis, who was one of the 10 Exalted Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). By the end of the congress, Ellis had publicly destroyed his KKK membership card, and he and Atwater -- who had disliked him on sight -- had forged a friendship that endures to this day. 1 videodisc (45 min.)
MEDIA 10-1883
Up south c1998
Andrea Ades Vasquez, Pennee Bender, Joshua Brown, American Social History Project, and American Social History Productions, Inc
Between 1916 and 1921, 500,000 African-Americans moved from the south to cities in the North. Mississipians chose Chicago as their destination in the great migration. This is their story. 1 videodisc (30 min.)
MEDIA 10-694
The witness from the balcony of room 306 2009
Samuel Billy Kyles, Adam Pertofsky, Steve Yedlin, Sarah Bleakley, David Brodie, and National Civil Rights Museum
The film chronicles the final days and hours of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as told through the eyes of his contemporary, Reverend Samuel Billy Kyles, who stood on the balcony with Dr. King when he was slain that fateful day at the Lorraine Motel in 1968. It follows Dr. King's efforts to gain community support for the striking sanitation workers in 1968 and the famous marches through Memphis. It contains stirring details about conversations with Dr. King moments before his passing. The 32-minute documentary short includes exclusive, never before seen commentary and interviews with Reverend Samuel Billy Kyles, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Civil Rights Leader and former Executive Director of the NAACP, Mrs. Maxine Smith, Executive Secretary, NAACP Memphis Branch and Taylor Rodgers, one of the original sanitation workers who marched alongside King and Kyles, among others. 1 videodisc (32 min.)
MEDIA 10-1999
10,000 black men named George 2003
Michelle Mundy, Cyrus Nowrasteh, Robert Townsend, Andre Braugher, Karen Eyo, Charles S Dutton, Mario Van Peebles, Ardon Bess, Carla Brothers, Kedar Brown, Amanda Brugel, Joel Gordon, Fredrick McKissack, Dufferin Gate Productions (Firm), Paramount Television, and Paramount Pictures Corporation
A dramatization of the true story of the formation of the first black-controlled union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Asa Philip Randolph, a black journalist establishes a voice for the forgotten workers of the Pullman Rail Company, where all black porters were simply named "George", after George Pullman, the first person to employ emancipated slaves. 1 videodisc (95 min.)
DANA 58
4 little girls 1998
Spike Lee and Sam Pollard
The Birmingham Campaign was launched in 1963. 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. They marched alongside the adults and were taken to jail with them as well. The 16th St. Baptist Church was close to the downtown area, it was an ideal location to hold rallies and meetings. On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, dynamite planted by the Ku Klux Klan, exploded in the building...under the fallen debris the bodies of [four] girls were found--Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley died because of the color of their skin. 1 videocassette (102 min.) DVD
DANA MEDIA 1566 10-384
African American life 1996
Irene Bedard, Rhonda Fabian, and Jerry Baber
Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. 1 videocassette (25 min.)
DANA 1811
African Americans 1993
Jerry Baber and Hollis Payer
Celebrates the heritage of African Americans showing the unique traditions they brought with them and who they are today. Discusses the history of their emigration and who the important African American leaders are in North America today. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 1815
African-Americans in WWII 1995
OnDeck Home Entertainment (Firm)
Documentary combining interviews and news and movie footage. Tells not only the story of the Tuskegee Airmen but also an overview of how the unit came into existence. "Jubilee : strictly G.I." is footage taped during the broadcast of a radio show that was shipped overseas to the Armed Forces Radio Network. 1 videocassette (46 min.)
DANA 3034
The African burial ground an American discovery 1994
Christopher Moore, David Kutz, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis
Explores the history and archeological excavation of a burial ground for African slaves discovered in lower Manhattan Island, New York, during construction of Federal office building in the summer of 1991. Relates also the effect of the discovery on understanding the role of Afro-Americans in colonial American life. 1 videocassette (118 min.)
MEDIA DANA 2-5751 643
African contributions to U.S. history 1998
Richard Arsenault and David House
In this video discover the far-reaching influence of Africans throughout U.S. history. 1 videocassette (21 min.)
DANA 1810
Ain't gonna shuffle no more, 1964-1972 1989
Julian Bond, Sam Polland, and Sheila Curran Bernard
This video illustrates the pervasiveness of the black consciousness movement throughout the country in the mid-1960s and early 1970s. Describes the student movement at Howard University for black studies and explores the "coming of age" of black politicians and political activists through a description of the National Black Political Convention at Gary, Indiana. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4158
America's black warriors two wars to win 1998
Mort Zimmerman, Norman Stahl, Don Horan, Fritz Weaver, and Colin L Powell
The video features numerous African-American WWII veterans, who speak with brutal honesty about the prejudice they encountered and the battles they fought. 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.)
DANA 1812
An angry man? the trial of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin 2002
Ted Koppel and Andrew Young
This program examines the murder case in the context of who Al-Amin was and who he has been since changing his name and beliefs while in prison. In the 1960s, H. Rap Brown was a vocal civil rights activist who scared white America with a fiery rhetoric of violence. Now Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former Black Panther since converted to Islam, is back in the spotlight, accused of killing a deputy sheriff in Atlanta. This program examines the murder case in the context of who Al-Amin was and who he has been since changing his name and beliefs while in prison. 1 videocassette (23 min.)
DANA 1879
The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr 1993
Denis Mueller, James Lawson, Wayne Chastain, Athan G Theoharis, and Samuel Billy Kyles
Documetary film which examines the involvement of FBI's counter intelligence programs in Dr. King's assissination; investigates the conviction of James Earl Ray; interviews James Lawson, Wayne Chastain, Athan Theoharris and Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles for their viewpoints. 1 videocassette (ca. 85 min.)
DANA 1097
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 1994, 1973
Ernest J Gaines, Robert Christiansen, Rick Rosenberg, Tracy Keenan Wynn, John Korty, Cicely Tyson, Richard Dysart, and Katherine Helmond
Presents the story of the long life of Miss Jane Pittman, who began her life as a slave in the South and who marched for her civil rights in the 20th century at the age of 110. 1 videocassette (106 min.)
DANA 1033
The Bicycle Corps America's black army on wheels c2000
Gus Chambers, James Woodill, Montana PBS, University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.), Broadcast Media Center, and PBS Video
In 1897, the 25th Infantry established a Bicycle Corps to test the overall practicality of military cycling to test the Army's theory that bicycles could replace the horse as a means of troop transport. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)
MEDIA DANA 2-4402 3029
Black American conservatism an exploration of ideas 1992
M. Zach Richter, Robin Downes, and Clarence Page
Using archival photos, rare footage, and historical narratives, Clarence Page reviews the history of Black American conservatism and explains the enterprising concepts of black entrepreneurs and industrialists from the late 1800s to the present. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
DANA 722
Black history lost, stolen or strayed? 2002
Bill Cosby, Andrew A Rooney, Perry Wolff, and Vern Diamond
"'Significant.' 'Moving.' 'Devastating.' These are words that were used to describe this news report on African-American history when it aired in July of 1968 ... Featured segments spotlight the changing image of black Americans through film and TV clips ranging from The birth of a nation, to Amos 'n' Andy, to Guess who's coming to dinner; Freedom Day School in Philadelphia, where African-American children were taught about their heritage and racial identity; and some of America's less familiar black. heroes, including Daniel Hale Williams, the first doctor to perform open heart surgery in America"--Container. 1 videocassette (55 min.)
DANA 1888
Black Natchez 1966?
Edward Pincus and David Neuman
A behind the scenes look at the struggle of the Black population of Natchez, Mississippi, during the civil rights protests of 1965. Portrays the friction between the White and Black communities as well as the factionalism within the Black community itself. 1 videocassette (55 min.)
MEDIA D-128
Black Panther San Francisco State: on strike 1998
Huey P Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale
Black Panther features interviews with founding members, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale. Documentary footage of the organization's meetings and marches reveal a pragmatic and still relevant outline for African American communities' self-determination and development. San Francisco State: on strike recounts how students of color led a six month long strike in the fall of 1968 at San Francisco State to make their university's curriculum and admission policies more relevant and succeeded in creating the establishment of the first Ethnic Studies department in America. 1 videocassette (35 min.)
MEDIA 2-5028
The Black press soldiers without swords 1998
Stanley Nelson and Joe Morton
"Too long have others spoken for us". A History of African-American newspapers and journalism from the mid-19th century through the 20th century. With commentary by historians, newspaper cartoonists, journalists, and photojournalists, tells of the struggles against censorship, discrimination and for freedom of the press. 1 videocassette (86 min.)
MEDIA 2-3705
Blacks & Jews 1997
Bari Scott, Deborah Kaufman, and Alan Snitow
Early in the 20th century black and Jewish Americans joined forces against bigotry and for civil rights but in the late 1960's each group turned inward and the coalition fell apart. This film examines the history of this collaboration and recent racial conflicts between Afro-Americans and Jews and attempts at understanding and reconciliation, with particular emphasis on events in New York City and Oakland, California. 1 videocassette (85 min.)
DANA 861
Bloody island c1998
Thomas Gibson and Filmakers Library, inc
In the early part of the century, thousands of African Americans migrated from the rural South in search of a better life in the northern industrial cities. This black migration was an important event in U.S. history. It fueled the factories of the North, but hurt an already weakened southern economy. In East St. Louis, Ill., trouble was brewing as black workers were being hired to replace striking white workers. It all came to a head on the night of July 1, 1917. 1 videocassette (42 min.)
MEDIA 2-6889
Booker 1997, 1983
Shelley Duvall, LeVar Burton, Shavar Ross, C. C. H Pounder, Judge Reinhold, Whitney Green, Avon Kirkland, Charles Johnson, John Allman, and Stan Lathan
Set in the 1860's South, Booker is the impassioned story of the boy who struggled "up from slavery" to found the Tuskegee Institute. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
DANA 1027
Bridge to freedom, 1965 1995
James A DeVinney, Callie Crossley, and Julian Bond
Presents the freedom march of 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. During the drive to make voting rights a national issue, ideological differences within the civil rights movement surface. As the movement splinters into factions, the Voting Rights Act becomes law. 1 videocasette (ca. 60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4167
The Brooks family 1981
Tom Raynor and Carol Martin
The story of Afro-Americans is told through an overview of their history, a survey of the development of Afro-American communities in the United States through a century of change, and the experiences of several generations of the Brooks family. 1 filmstrip ([130] fr.)
DANA 100
Buffalo soldiers West Black soldiers in the frontier army 1996
Bill Gwaltney
Filmed tour of the exhibit: "Buffalo soldiers West" which was presented by the Colorado Historical Society in 1995-96. The tape expands the scope of the exhibit and examines the Black experience in our frontier military. It also details the outstanding performance and the many contributions that the Buffalo soldiers brought to the military, the West, and the United states. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 1136
CBS reports the Harlem temper 2002
Stephen Fleischman and Harry Reasoner
In this 1963 CBS News special, CBS reporter Harry Reasoner examines the economic and political scene in Harlem, a study in miniature of black leadership in conflict and crisis throughout America. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
DANA MEDIA 1865 10-1451
Charles Drew determined to succeed 1995
Rex Barnett and Clairmont Barnes
This documentary chronicles the life of Dr. Drew, an African- American physician who discovered a method for preserving the plasma portion of blood for use in blood transfusions. He was also assistant director of the national program for blood procurement for the American Red Cross, where he fought racism. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 1258
Charlotte Forten's mission experiment in freedom 1996
Samm-Art Williams, Barry Crane, Yanna Brandt, Melba Moore, Mary Alice, Ned Beatty, Past America Inc, South Carolina Educational Television Network, and Monterey Home Video (Firm)
During the Civil War, 21-year-old Charlotte Forten proposed a unique experiment to President Lincoln: allow 8,000 freed slaves on South Carolina's Sea Islands to demonstrate their equality to the nation . 1 videocassette (113 min.)
MEDIA 2-6555
The Civil War era 1993
John Simmons and Eugene Williams
Dr. Simmons' lecture explores the Civil War era in American religious history and closely looks at the separate religious traditions that African-Americans formed during this time. 1 videocassette (55 min.)
DANA 1455
Critical thinking in nursing lessons from Tuskegee 1993
Christine Campbell and Harry Wade
This program investigates nurse Eunice River's involvement in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and how it may be interpreted today in the context of critical thinking. 1 videocassette (43 min.)
DANA. DANA 400 400 guide
David Halberstam's the fifties. Volume 6, The rage within. The road to the sixtiesh[videorecording] 1997
David Halberstam, Tracy Dahlby, Alex Gibney, Nancy Button, and Edward Herrmann
The rage within: America in the fifties is finally forced to examine issues of racial discrimination. The road to the sixties: Shows American involvement with fast cars, fast food, the space race, the rise of Fidel Castro in Cuba and a rising restlessness as the country moves toward the next decade. 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.)
MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3632 2-6175
Death of a prophet 2009
Woodie King, Morgan Freeman, Yolanda King, Mansoor Najee-Ullah, Ossie Davis, National Black Touring Circuit, Inc, and Turn Up The Music, Inc
"Based on actual events, this film celebrates the lasting impact that Malcolm X had on American history"--Container. 1 videodisc (60 min.)
MEDIA 10-1825
The Depression years, 1930-1940 1990, 1989
William Miles, Clayton Riley, and Adolph Caesar
Covers Harlem's ethnic heritage, the music and show business tradition, Father Divine and Joe Louis. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-1375
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr a historical perspective c2002, 1994
Martin Luther King, S. Leigh Savidge, Thomas Friedman, Arthur Berghardt, and Xenon Pictures
Historical overview of the struggle for racial equality in America. Focuses on the extraordinary life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. using rare and largely unseen film footage and photographs. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.)
DANA 131
The dream keepers 1999
Tracy Heather Strain and Vanessa Williams
From 1940-1965 racial barriers were steadily being broken and a stunning series of African-American firsts in all fields helped with racial inequities. Some fields, however, still remained closed. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4293
Duke Ellington's Washington c2004
Hedrick Smith, Stanley Nelson, Hedrick Smith Productions, South Carolina Educational Television Network, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Profiles the Uptown area of Washington, D.C., which was the cultural capital of black America in the early years of the 20th century. Centered around U Street, it nurtured many dynamic leaders, including Duke Ellington. Combines archival footage and photographs with interviews that describe the community's heyday, decline, and renewal. 1 videodisc (57 min.)
MEDIA 10-861
The Early years, 1600-1930 1991, 1990
William Miles, Clayton Riley, and Adolph Caesar
Covers Harlem's growth from fishing village to Dutch farming community, wealthy New York suburb, and finally to burgeoning black neighborhood. Also covers the career of Marcus Garvey and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-1374
Ethnic notions 1986
Marlon T Riggs, Deborah Hoffmann, and Esther Rolle
Presents a history of the racist images and caricatures of Blacks in American culture. 1 videocassette (VHS) (58 min.)
DANA. DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 59 59 2-568 2-741 D-374
Eyes on the prize America's civil rights movement 2006
Henry Hampton, Judith Vecchione, Steve Fayer, Juan Williams, Orlando Bagwell, Callie Crossley, James A DeVinney, Madison Davis Lacy, Paul Jeffrey Stekler, Jacqueline Shearer, Sam Pollard, Sheila Curran Bernard, Terry Kay Rockefeller, Thomas Ott, Louis Massiah, Julian Bond, Blackside, Inc, PBS Video, and WGBH Video (Firm)
Vols. 1-3 tell the story of America's civil rights years from 1954 to 1965; vols. 4-7 examine the new America from 1966 to 1985, from community power to the human alienation of urban poverty. 7 videodiscs (120 min. each)
MEDIA MEDIA 10-809 v.1 - 10-809 v.7 2-4154 to 2-4167
Fatal flood 2001
Chana Gazit, Liev Schreiber, and John M Barry
"In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys-- and the Percys against themselves."--Container. 1 videocasette (60 min.)
DANA, MEDIA 1773, 2-4351
February one c2004
Rebecca Cerese, South Carolina Educational Television Network, Video Dialog Inc, and California Newsreel (Firm)
Tells the inspiring story of four remarkable young men who initiated the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, NC on February 1, 1960. 1 videocassette (57 min.)
DANA MEDIA 3035 2-6909
Feel it in my bones 1993
Sheila Cooper
Two African-American burial grounds, one in New York City and the other in Dallas, Texas were uncovered during recent construction raising questions about the proper commemoration of these remains. 1 videocassette (40 min.)
DANA 613
Finally got the news-- 2003?
Stewart Bird, League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Black Star Productions, and First Run/Icarus Films
A documentary presenting the workers' view of working conditions inside Detroit's auto factories. It focuses on the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in their efforts to build an independent African American labor organization. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-7673
Flyers in search of a dream 1986
Tanya Hart, Philip Hart, and Barbara Barrow-Murray
The intriguing story of America's pioneering black aviators during the golden era of aviation in the 1920's and 1930's. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-4171
For us, the living the story of Medgar Evers 1995
Howard E Rollins, Irene Cara, Larry Fishburne, J. Kenneth Rotcop, and Michael Schultz
Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi from 1954-1963, worked to help black people politically by encouraging them to register to vote. A sniper shot and killed him on June 12, 1963 . 1 videocassette (88 min.)
DANA 1173
Fort Mose a new chapter in American history 1992
Bill Suchy
Tells the story of the first legally sanctioned settlement for free Africans in America, providing important evidence that African-American colonial history extended far beyond slavery and oppression. This program traces the kidnapping of Africans, their sale as slaves in the "New World" and their escape to Spanish Florida and freedom. 1 videocassette (16 min.)
DANA 1056
A fragile freedom African American historic sites 2002
James Oliver Horton and Judy Richardson
From stops on the Underground Railroad to the sites where the grand drama of the Civil Rights Movement played out, this video tours the nation to tell the story of Black America. The eight stops take us from New York City to Jacksonville, Florida, visiting famous landmarks and overlooked sites, and exploring the significance of each with the help of local experts and other scholars. What emerges is a fascinating tapestry of the African-American experience from the 18th century to the present day. 1 videocassette (50 min.)
DANA 1841
Frederick Douglass when the lion wrote history 1994
Orlando Bagwell, Charles S Dutton, and Alfre Woodard
Archival materials and autobiographical writings are used to present the life story of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave whose freedom was bought by supporters he met on a speaking tour in England, who became a journalist, publisher, diplomat and a passionate leader in the early fight for civil rights. 1 videocassette (90 min.)
MEDIA DANA 2-2741 2-4169 cassette 2 2-4170 cassette 3 2-4168 cassette 1 1557
Freedom bags 1990
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Stanley Nelson, and Carmen Lattimore
The story of African-American women who migrated from the rural south during the first 3 decades of the 20th century. Most could find jobs only as houseworkers. 1 videocassette (34 min.)
MEDIA 2-1624
Freedom on my mind 1994
Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford, Michael Chandler, and Rhonnie Lynn Washington
Documentary of the civil rights movement and the events surrounding the Mississippi Voter Registration Project of the early 1960's. Combines archival footage with contemporary interviews. 1 videocassette (110 min.)
MEDIA 2-5022
Freedom's call c2006
Richard Breyer, George Kilpatrick, Dorothy Butler Gilliam, Ernest C Withers, Annette Adams-Brown, Filmakers Library, inc, and W & B Productions
"Two African-American journalists who covered the events of the Civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties return to the deep South where it all took place. The journalists are Dorothy Gilliam,who later became first female African American reporter at The Washington Post, and Ernest Withers, renowned photographer whose photos were published in the black press, The Washington Post, and The New York Times ... Photographs, newspaper clips and eyewitness accounts brings the heroic struggle alive, a struggle in which these two courageous journalists participated and recorded for posterity. "--Container. 1 videodisc (50 min.)
MEDIA 10-1679
From dreams to reality a tribute to minority inventors 1986?
Vicki Kodama
Recognizes minority inventors, their place in American history, and the obstacles they have had to overcome. 1 videocassette (26 min.)
MEDIA 2-874
From swastika to Jim Crow 1999
Lori Cheatle, Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher, Martin D Toub, Luc Sante, Pacific Street Film Projects, Inc, Independent Television Service, and Cinema Guild
This is a story of two cultures, each sharing a burden of oppression, brought together by the tragic circumstances of war. 1 videocassette (57 min.)
MEDIA 2-6778
Fundi the story of Ella Baker 1981
Joanne Grant
Shows the work of Ella Baker, a little-known organizer in the civil rights movement of the past fifty years. Documents the struggle of Black people for justice and equality. 1 videocassette (48 min.)
MEDIA 2-3031
The Garrett Augustus Morgan story 1996
W. Stinson McClendon and Rodney M Thompson
Chronicles the life of Garrett Morgan, son of a ex-slave, who beame the inventor of the gas mask and the traffic light. 1 videocassette (41 min.)
DANA 1082
George Wallace settin' the woods on fire 2000
Daniel McCabe, Paul Jeffrey Stekler, Randy Quaid, David G McCullough, Dan T Carter, Dan T Carter, and Steve Fayer
Four times governor of Alabama, four times a candidate for president, George Wallace was a fierce defender of Southern pride. This film through extensive archive footage and interviews presents the life of a man central to the civil rights years in the South, a lightening rod for controversy, a liberal judge who betrayed his principles for power, a politician who harnessed the anger lurking beneath American society to create a lasting conservative movement and a man ultimately reborn through suffering. 2 videocassettes (180 min.)
MEDIA. MEDIA 2-5086 cassette 1 2-5087 cassette 2
Goin' to Chicago 1994
George King
A group of longtime Chicago residents returns to Greenville, Mississippi for a reunion with family and friends. Participants talk about their lives and their reasons for moving north. Includes historical footage of Mississippi and Chicago. 1 videocassette (70 min.)
DANA 371
A great day in Harlem 1999
Jean Bach, Matthew Seig, Susan Peehl, Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Hinton, Jonah Jones, BWE Video (Firm), Castle Hill Productions, and Image Entertainment (Firm)
A great day in Harlem tells the story of Art Kane's famous 1958 group photograph of the jazz greats of the period. Includes home movie footage of that day of the musicians arriving and greeting each other the morning of the shoot. Also includes conversations with musicians and archival performance footage. The spitball story is a short film about Dizzy Gillespie's antics as a performer in Cab Calloway's band. Includes interviews with Milt Hinton, Dizzy Gillespie, and Jonah Jones, as well as archival performance footage. 1 videodisc (81 min.)
DANA 73
Heritage of African-American worship 1999
Schuyler Sackett
The dramatic story of the African-American church in America, from Boston's African Meeting House in 1804, to Birmingham and Montgomery in the 1960s. 1 videocassette (46 min.)
DANA 1458
A history of slavery in America 1994
Rhonda Fabian, Jerry Baber, and John O'Neal
This program explores the institution of slavery in North America from the 1600's to the early days of Reconstruction. From the auction block to the Underground Railroad, the program seeks to dispel the myth that slavery was a passive state. Slave rebellions and abolitionists like Frederick Douglass demonstrate that there was an ongoing and persistent attempt to end slavery in America. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 1859
Homecoming sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirt and clay 1999
Charlene Gilbert, Marsha J. Tyson Darling, Pete Daniel, Warren James, Ralph Paige, Clifford M Hardin, Robert Browne, Fannie Lou Hamer, Shirley Sherrod, James Lynmore, and Neal Leonard
A documentary film exploring the history of ownership of farm lands by African Americans from Reconstruction to the present day. Their struggle for land of their own pitted them against both the Southern white power structure and the federal agencies responsible for helping them. As part of Reconstruction, Congress alloted 45 million acres of land to former slaves but little land was ever actually distributed. Despite formidable obstacles one million African Americans, mostly former sharecroppers, managed to purchase over 15 million acres of land by 1910. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
MEDIA 2-5030
Huey! ; Black panthers Le Panthers Noir 1995
Huey P Newton, Bobby Seale, and Agnčs Varda
Huey!: Original uncut international documentary directed by French filmmaker Agnes Varda of the "Free Huey" rally held at the Oakland Auditorium on February 17th 1968. Black Panthers: Alternative clip that provides a chilling look at California's racial environment in 1968, including demonstration scenes outside the Alameda County Jail. Features a rare in-jail interview with Huey P. Newton, with Eldridge Cleaver and Bobby Seale also offering their perspectives on the Panthers and police brutality. 1 videocassette (46 min.)
MEDIA 2-3170
I have a dream 1986
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963. 1 videocassette (ca. 28 min.)
DANA 1038
I is a long memoried woman 1990
Grace Nichols, Frances-Anne Solomon, Ingrid Lewis, Eusebia, Malisha Odlum, and Steve Wright
A reading of poems written by Grace Nichols concerning the history of the Black woman, accompanied by music and dance. 1 videocassette (50 min.)
MEDIA 2-1692
I remember Harlem 1991
William Miles, Clayton Riley, and Adolph Caesar
"This special one-hour condensed version of the 'I remember Harlem' series covers the progression of Harlem from fishing village to wealthy New York suburb, to international synonym for Black America, to Harlem's future. It spotlights some of Harlem's most famous residents, including Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Paul Robeson, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X"--Container. 1 videocassette (55 min.)
MEDIA 2-2977
Ida B. Wells 1993
Rex Barnett, Clairmont Barnes, and Barbara Faison
Profiles the life and work of African-American journalist Ida B. Wells, who worked to stop lynchings and violence against Blacks. 1 videocassette (27 min.)
DANA 1257
Ida B. Wells a passion for justice 1991
Toni Morrison and Al Freeman
Born into slavery in Mississippi at the end of the Civil War, Wells became a school teacher and journalist. Her personal sense of integrity and justice carried her into a lifelong crusade against racism, sexism, and lynching. 1 videocassette (ca. 55 min.) ;
DANA MEDIA 187 2-860
In medical science presents Black achievements in medicine and science 1997
Rex Barnett
"Bill Jenkins, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Walter Williams, M.D., M.P.H. discuss their duties at CDC and their academic and professional training that has led to their current professions. They talk about key aspects of their professions for an insight into epidemiology."--Container. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 1256
In remembrance of Martin 1986
Kell Kearns, Lori Kearns, Dave Marquis, and Richard Johnson
This tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. is composed of testimonies by his family, associates, and government leaders, and includes documentary footage. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA DANA 2-4192 1848
In search of the American dream origins, a story of the African-American experience 1991
Robert E Frye, Haskell Ward, and C. Eric Lincoln
This program begins with the arrival of 20 Africans forcibly brought to Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 and examines the impact of slavery on African Americans. Dr. C. Eric Lincoln explains the importance of African roots for African Americans and shows how the African cultural heritage--music, dance, art, storytelling--is manifested in American life. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
DANA 856
The intolerable burden 2003
Chea Prince, Constance Curry, Constance Curry, Public Domain Inc, University of Mississippi, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Blue Stream Productions, and First Run/Icarus Films
Documentary film of how Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter enrolled the youngest eight of their thirteen children in the public schools of Drew, Mississippi in 1965, which were all white. Examines the conditions of segregation prior to 1965. 1 videocassette (57 min.)
MEDIA 2-6902
John Henrik Clarke a great and mighty walk 1996
John Henrik Clarke and St. Clair Bourne
John Henrik Clarke discusses the history of Afro-Americans, placing it within the context of the history of Africa and Africans and their relationship with non-African civilizations such as Greek, Roman, European, Christian, and Islamic. 1 videocassette (94 min.)
DANA 1298
July '64 2006?
Carvin Eison, ImageWordSound (Firm), Independent Television Service, WXXI (Television station : Rochester, N.Y.), California Newsreel (Firm), and National Black Programming Consortium
In the summer of 1964, a three-night riot erupted in two predominantly black neighborhoods in downtown Rochester, New York--the culmination of decades of poverty, joblessness and racial discrimination and a significant event in the Civil Rights era. Using archival footage and interviews with those who were present, the film explores the genesis and outcome of these three nights. 1 videodisc (54 min)
MEDIA 10-753
The killing floor 1997, 1984
Elsa Rassbach, Leslie Lee, George Manasse, Bill Duke, Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, and Clarence Felder
Frank Custer is a young black man from rural Mississippi who, in 1917, came north to make his fortune at the beginning of World War I. There, the only job he can get is at one of Chicago's meat-packing plants, working in the slaughtering area called the killing floor, where he is caught up in a war between the "packers" and those trying to form a labor union. 1 videocassette (118 min.)
MEDIA 2-3441
King, Montgomery to Memphis 1988
Dramatic account of the struggle for equality and justice waged by both black and white Americans from 1955 to 1968. Records the fiery and triumphant battle of Martin Luther King, Jr. and depicts his philosophy of non-violence. 1 videocassette (103 min,)
MEDIA 2-533
LaLee's kin the legacy of cotton 2006
Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson, Albert Maysles, Maysles Films, Home Box Office (Firm), and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
"For generations, the legacy of the cotton industry for African-Americans in the Mississippi Delta has been hardscrabble poverty and virtual illiteracy. This compelling program focuses on the family unit in crisis and the urgent need for education reform through the stories of two remarkable individuals."--Container. 1 videodisc (90 min.)
DANA 435
The language you cry in the story of a Mende song 1998
Alvaro Toepke, Angel Serrano, and California Newsreel (Firm)
Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and in the 1990s scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone. Dramatically demonstrates how African Americans retained links with their African past, and concludes with the visit of the Gullah family which had preserved the song to the Mende village, where villagers re-enact the ancient burial rites for them. 1 videodisc (52 min.)
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Legacy of a dream 1990,1974
Richard Kaplan and James Earl Jones
Describes the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 1002
Liberators fighting on two fronts in World War II 1992
Denzel Washington, Louis Gossett, William Miles, Nina Rosenblum, and Daniel V Allentuck
The experiences of African-American soldiers during World War II reflected the racial climate of 1940s America, a society marked by strict segregation and frequent acts of violence. Black combat battalions existed but were only used toward the end of the war, when manpower grew short in Europe. 1 videocassette (90 min.)
DANA. MEDIA 280 2-2106
The life and legend of Sojourner Truth 2001
Lynn C Spangler and Olive Gilbert
Traces the life and legend of the former slave who could neither read nor write, yet earned a reputation as one of the most articulate and outspoken antislavery and women's rights activists in the United States. 1 videocassette (57 min.)
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Lift every voice 1999
Sam Pollard, Betty Ciccarelli, Sheila Curran Bernard, and Vanessa Williams
Looks at the trials and tribulations of the first generation of African-Americans born into freedom, focusing on the contributions of this generation to the arts. Presents biographies of Bert Williams and George Walker in vaudeville and Oscar Micheaux in film. Video also discusses the birth of jazz. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4290
A lynching in Marion 1994
Nolan Lehman and Joanne Garrett
In August, 1930, a 16-year-old African-American named James Cameron survived a lynching in Marion, Indiana. Now, 65 years later, Cameron tells his compelling story in vivid detail. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
MEDIA 2-4258
Malcolm X 1993
Marvin Worth, Arnold Perl, Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Jr Freeman, and Delroy Lindo
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader. 2 videocassettes (201 min.)
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Malcolm X death of a prophet 1992
Malcolm X, Woodie King, Morgan Freeman, Yolanda King, and Ossie Davis
A documentary showing the life of Malcolm X, his leadership in the Black Muslim movement, and his influence on black Americans and African nations. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
DANA 1133
Marcus Garvey look for me in the whirlwind 2001
Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith, and Carl Lumbly
Uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest black mass movement in world history. 1 videocassette (90 min.)
MEDIA DANA 2-4003a 1772
Martin Luther King commemorative collection 1996
Martin Luther King, Kell Kearns, Lori Kearns, Dave Marquis, and Darrell Moore
Presents two stirring documentaries on the work and life of Martin Luther King. "In remembrance of Martin" is composed of testimonies by his family, associates, and government leaders, and includes documentary footage. "The Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr." contains all of his major speeches. 1 videocassette (115 min.)
DANA 1007
Martin Luther King Jr 1990
Martin Luther King and Darrell W Moore
Presents a collection of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s major speeches and minor asides, tracing the development of his oratorical style. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-1199
Mary McLeod Bethune the spirit of a champion 1996
Rex Barnett and Steve Coulter
Chronicles the life of Mary McLeod Bethune, one of the major pioneers of Black education in the U.S. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 1254
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry 1991
Jacqueline Shearer, Leslie Lee, David G McCullough, and Morgan Freeman
The story of the first officially sanctioned regiment of northern Black soldiers formed in Boston during the Civil War. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
DANA 1771
Material witness race, identity and the politics of gangsta rap 1995
Michael Eric Dyson and Sut Jhally
Dyson talks about the important issues of essentialism and notions of identity within the context of race, and discusses hip hop culture and the conflicts around gangsta rap. 1 videocassette (42 min.)
MEDIA 2-2628
Men of bronze c2001
William Miles, Adolph Caesar, Direct Cinema Ltd, Men of Bronze, Inc, and WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Photographs, interviews with veterans, and film from the French and American National Archives are used to recount the saga of the black American soldiers of the 369th combat regiment, known as the "Harlem Hellfighters," who served with the French Army in World War I. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-6672
The middle passage 2003
Djimon Hounsou, Guy Deslauriers, and Walter Mosely
The story of an African slave who was sold into slavery by the King of Dahomey, shackled and transported on a journey shared with some six hundred others. A journey barely half would survive. 1 videocassette (76 min.)
DANA 1839
Miles of smiles, years of struggles the untold story of the Black Pullman Porter 1983
Jack Santini, Paul Wagner, and Rosina Tucker
Chronicles the organizing of the first black trade union--the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This inspiring story of the Pullman porters provides the most in-depth account on film of African-American working life between the Civil War and World War II. 1 videocassette (59 min., 30 sec.)
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Mississippi, America 1995
Judith McCray, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee
Through an examination of historical events of 1964, this program gives testimony to persistence and courage in the face of oppression, as citizens and the lawyers who volunteered to help them, confront violence, murder and government repression in Mississippi in order to win the right to vote for Afro-American citizens. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4206
Mississippi is this America?, 1962-1964 1995
Orlando Bagwell and Julian Bond
Reviews the struggle of the civil rights movement in Mississippi as the state becomes a testing ground for the constitutional principles of voting rights. 1 videocasette (ca. 60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4166
Mississippi summer the unfinished journey 1993
Tanya Hart, Cheryl Bond-Nelms, Bill Lawler, Charles Thanas, and Ron Massa
Examines the history of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi during the 1960s using documentary film footage and interviews with some of the participants. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-2679
The murder of Emmett Till 2003
Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith, and Andre Braugher
The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)
DANA MEDIA 1802 2-4379
Nat Turner a troublesome property c2002
Frank Christopher, Kenneth S Greenberg, Charles Burnett, Alfre Woodard, Subpix (Firm), KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.), and California Newsreel (Firm)
A chronicle about the multiple ways the Nat Turner slave revolt has been remembered and interpreted by historians, novelists, dramatists, and artists. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-6463
A Nation of law? 1968-1971 1990
Terry Kay Rockefeller, Thomas Ott, Louis Massiah, and Julian Bond
By the late 1960's, the anger in the poorer urban areas over charges of police brutality was smoldering. In Chicago, Fred Hampton formed a Black Panther Party chapter. During this same period, inmates at New York's Attica Prison took over the prison in an effort to publicize intolerable conditions. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4159
The Negro soldier 1990
Frank Capra and Stuart Heisler
Traces the role of the Negro soldier in American history from 1776 to 1944. Shows the accomplishments of Negro troops. 1 videocassette (49 min.)
MEDIA 2-1294
The night Tulsa burned c2002
Sean P Geary, Mark Montgomery, David Ackroyd, Weller/Grossman Productions, Arts and Entertainment Network, and History Channel (Television network)
Recalls the race riot of May 31, 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, OK. 1 videodisc (ca. 50 mins.)
DANA 312
Nightfighters the true story of the 332nd fighter group : the Tuskegee Airmen 1996
Jeremy Bugler, Madonna Benajamin, and Arthur Burghardt
The 332nd Fighter group has a unique place in the annals of WWII air force fighter groups. The group was completely Black. It confounded the expectations and prejudices held by white Americans in the 1930's and 1940's. The group excelled as pilots and became a crack unit, accomplishing goals others couldn't. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
DANA 1048
Nightjohn c2005, 1996
Charles Burnett, Dennis Stuart Murphy, Beau Bridges, Carl Lumbly, Lorraine Toussaint, Allison Jones, Gary Paulsen, Hallmark Entertainment (Firm), Sarabande Productions, Disney Channel (Firm), Echo Bridge Home Entertainment (Firm), and Signboard Hill Productions
The story of a young slave girl and the man who, at great risk to each other, teaches her to read, opening up a whole new world for her. 1 videodisc (96 min.)
MEDIA 10-1443
Not a rhyme time 1999
Sheila Curran Bernard, Denise A Greene, and Vanessa Williams
Between 1963 and 1986, a cultural revolution began as black artists challenged mainstream aesthetics, identity and power, and ultimately defied the very notion of a mainstream. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4294
Oh freedom after while 1999
Steven John Ross, Candace O'Connor, Lynn Rubright, Julian Bond, Joneal Joplin, and T. C Sharpe
In January 1939, Missouri Bootheel sharecroppers--black and white--staged a dramatic roadside protest to call attention to unjust treatment by local plantation owners. Their demonstration spurred the U.S. government to develop new housing for displaced sharecroppers. Some demonstrators also established a remarkable farming community--and learned how to make lasting change in their lives. 1 videocassette (57 min.)
MEDIA 2-5023
One doctor Daniel Hale Williams 1997
Rex Barnett and Rex Barnett
"This is the first video biography on the Black surgeon who was the first person to successfully perform an operation on the human heart, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. 'One doctor' covers his life and career and his heart operation that gave him international acclaim in 1893."--Container. 1 videocassette (45 min.)
DANA 1261
Panther 1995
Melvin Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles, Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Joe Don Baker, and Melvin Van Peebles
A dramatization of the clash between the Black Panthers, led by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, and the FBI, in Oakland, California in 1968. 1 videocassette (123 min.)
DANA 943
Paul Robeson, the tallest tree in our forest 1993
Gil Nobil and Paul Robeson
A documentary on the life of Paul Robeson, begun shortly before his death in 1976, from information held in the Paul Robeson Archives. Robeson is shown as a man of convictions, and he discusses how he came to be a singer from his start as an actor. 1 videocassette (90 min.)
DANA 474
A. Philip Randolph for jobs & freedom 1996, 1995
Lynne Thigpen and Dante J James
Biography of the African American labor leader, journalist, and civil rights activist, A. Philip Randolph. Randolph won the first national labor agreement for a black union, The Sleeping Car porters. His threat of a protest march on Washington forced President Roosevelt to ban segregation in the federal government and defense industries at the onset of WWII and later he forced Truman to integrate the military. Finally with the 1963 March on Washington, Randolph succeeded in placing civil rights at the forefront of the nation's legislative agenda as he passed the torch to Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes music of the labor and civil rights movements. 1 videocassette (87:10 min.)
DANA 871
A Place of rage 1991
T. Minh-Ha Trinh, June Jordan, Angela Yvonne Davis, Alice Walker, and Pratibha Parmar
Prominent black women comment upon experiences of Afro-American women, upon racial discrimination and its effects upon the American culture and make suggestions which they hope will improve the future. Includes historical footage of civil rights movement in the 1960's. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
MEDIA 2-2570
A place out of time the Bordentown School 2010
Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards, Ruby Dee, Hudson West Productions, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), and PBS Home Video
The little-known story of the last all-black, publicly funded, coeducational boarding school north of the Mason-Dixon Line. In a segregated society, the Bordentown School was an educational utopia and cultural oasis for black citizens in the northeast and beyond for more than 70 years. Founded in 1886, and forced to close in 1955 after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the story of Bordentown is also the story of black education in America across three centuries. 1 videodisc (57 min.)
MEDIA 10-1850
The Promised land 1995
Morgan Freeman and Nicholas Lemann
Documents the migration of rural Southern blacks from the segregated South to Chicago. Cultural and political gains become offset by overcrowding and increasing ghettoization, as Northern politicians ignore resentment that explodes in the Sixties. 3 videocassettes (245 min.)
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Proudly we served the men of the USS Mason c1995
Mary Pat Kelly, Oshunyomi Mugwana, Onikwa Bill Wallace, Ossie Davis, and Bluejacket Enterprises
Tells the story of the African-American crew of the USS Mason which escorted six convoys across the perilous North Atlantic, from the weeks leading up to the D-Day invasions until V-E day in 1945. Their service as members of the "Hunter-Killer Groups" helped win the Battle of the Atlantic by defeating the German U-boat Wolfpacks. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-7282
Race and politics in America's cities c2008
Gail Ablow, Wayne Palmer, Bill D Moyers, Cory Booker, Fred Harris, Kathi Black, Michael Bacon, Robin Seidman, Public Affairs Television (Firm), WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
On the 40th anniversary of the landmark Kerner Commission Report on civil unrest, this edition of the Journal spotlights former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, one of the last living members of the original Commission, who discusses the root causes of the 1960s riots that rocked Newark, Detroit, and other U.S. cities. Harris reflects on his ongoing commitment to the cause of reducing racism and deep poverty in inner cities. Bill Moyers then interviews Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker, a dynamic voice for urban reform who shares the lessons he has learned and his vision for a brighter future for his city. 1 videodisc (58 min.)
DANA 428
Reconstruction & segregation (1865-1910) c1996
Dana Palermo, Henry Nevison, Catherine Samson, Charles Hardy, Hollis Payer, InVision Communications, and Schlessinger Video Productions
Assassination of Lincoln; Congressional Reconstruction; the Reconstruction Amendments; the Freedman's Bureau; Republican rule; the rise of the Ku Klux Klan; racial caste system and segregation; sharecropping; Jim Crow laws; "separate but equal.". 1 videocassette (ca. 35 min.)
MEDIA 2-6604
The riot makers the technology of social demolition 197-
Norman Bishop, Eugene H Methvin, and Spectrum of Washington, D.C., Inc
Presents the thesis that the late 1960's riots, particulary in Watts and Newark, were the result of outside agitators who had Marxist-Leninist backgrounds. 1 videocassette (27 min.)
MEDIA D-188
The rise and fall of Jim Crow 2002
Sam Pollard, Bill Jersey, Richard Wormser, and Richard Roundtree
This four-part series offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. Documents the context in which the laws of segregation known as the "Jim Crow" system originated and developed. 4 videocassettes (224 min.)
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The Road to Brown the untold story of the man who killed Jim Crow 1990
Steven Anthony Jones, Mykola Kulish, Larry Adelman, and Darryl Cox
Documentary on segregation in the South and the legal campaign against it. Profiles black lawyer Charles Houston, whose work in attacking the segregation laws ("Jim Crow") ultimately led to the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case. 1 videocassette (ca. 58 min.)
DANA. MEDIA 408 2-2619
Roots 1992
Alex Haley, Marvin Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, LeVar Burton, John Amos, Ben Vereen, Cicely Tyson, Gilbert Mores, Stan Margulies, and William Blinn
An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed. 6 videocassettes (591 min.) ;
MEDIA. DANA 2-2177 to 2-2182 cassette 688 v.1 to v.6
The Second American revolution 1988
Bill D Moyers, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, David Dowe, Mert Koplin, Charles Grinker, and Sanford H Fisher
Hosts Bill Moyers, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis examine the search of Blacks for racial equality in twentieth-century America. Includes archival film and still photographs of the great personalities and events of the freedom movement. 2 videocassettes (120 min.)
MEDIA. MEDIA 2-4093 2-4094
Shackles of memory the Atlantic slave trade c1994
Michel Moreau, Filmakers Library, inc, Université de Nantes, and Anneaux de la mémoire (Organization)
From the port of Nantes, located on the French Atlantic coast, more than 1800 slave ships plied their human cargo during the 18th and 19th centuries. These French ships circled the coast of Africa, exchanging trade merchandise for black captives whom they later sold to the colonies being established in the New World. 1 videocassette (55 min.)
MEDIA 2-7471
Ships of slaves the middle passage 1997
Christen Harty Schaefer, Stu Schreiberg, and Debbie Allen
Details the trials and tribulations of the slaves on their voyage from Africa to the Americas on slave ships. This transatlantic slave trade which lasted 300 years was known in history as the black holocaust. 1 videocassette (50 min.)
DANA 1838
Slave Island New York's hidden history c2004
Ian Potts, Julian Richards, Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), British Broadcasting Corporation, and Learning Channel (Firm)
Examines the excavation of an 18th century slave cemetery in downtown Manhattan. Scholars and leading experts conduct archaeological and forensic analyses of the remains of nearly 400 African Americans slaves who were forced to serve either the Dutch West India Company or English masters. Uses dramatic reenactments, early maps, and documents from slave traders to piece together the history of slavery in the city of New York. 1 videodisc (49 min.)
DANA 150
Slave ship c2001
Richard Rivera, Noah Morowitz, Alfre Woodard, Matter/Rivera Productions, Discovery Channel (Firm), Films for the Humanities (Firm), Discovery Channel University, and Raitre/Format (Firm)
"Over 150 documented mutinies occurred aboard slave ships between 1699 and 1845; only once, in the case of the Amistad, did slaves successfully return to Africa. Using that remarkable and anomalous incident as a focus, this program takes an in-depth look at the slave trade"--Container. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
MEDIA DANA 2-6810 1094
Slavery and the making of America c2005
Dante J James, Gail Pellett, Chana Gazit, Leslie D Farrell, Morgan Freeman, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), and Ambrose Video Publishing
This program examines the history of slavery in the United States and the role it played in shaping the new country's development. 4 videodiscs (240 min.)
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Sojourner Truth ain't I a woman 1989
Judy Chaikin, Loren Stephens, Gloria Goldsmith, Valeria Parker, Julie Harris, Roscoe Lee Browne, Rose Marie Perfect, and James Gosa
In the middle 1800's, at the age of 46, Sojourner Truth set out across New England, speaking at prayer meetings and gatherings. Although she was plain-spoken and uneducated, audiences were moved. She became known for her persuasive ability to speak about politics, religion, slavery and women's rights. 1 videocassette (26 min.)
MEDIA 2-3838
Solomon Northup's odyssey 1984
Yanna Brandt, Gordon Parks, Samm-Art Williams, Lou Potter, Solomon Northup, Avery Brooks, Mason Adams, Kent Broadhurst, Lee Bryant, Rhetta Greene, Janet League, Petronia Paley, J. C Quinn, John Saxon, Joe Seneca, and Michael J Tolan
Focuses on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free Black man from Saratoga, N.Y., who was kidnapped in 1841 and forced into slavery in Louisiana for twelve years. 1 videocassette (113 min.)
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A Son of Africa 1995
Olaudah Equiano, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Frederick Annan, Cathy Tyson, Hugh Williams, Alrick Riley, and Danny Padmore
A docudrama based on the book, "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oloudah Equiano", or "Gustavus Vaasa the African", which was the first influential slave autobiography. When it was published in 1789, it fueled a growing anti-slavery movement in the U.S. and England. This production employs dramatic reconstruction, archival material and interviews with scholars. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
MEDIA 2-2906
Still revolutionaries 2000
Sienna McLean, Katherine Campbell, and Madalynn Carol Rucker
This compelling documentary explores the lives of two women who were in the Black Panther Party between 1969 and 1975. Katherine Campbell and Madalynn Rucker reflect on the reasons and events that led to their joining the Black Panthers, the type of work they did within the Party, and the challenges they faced as they chose to leave it and reconstruct their lives. 1 videocassette (16 min.)
DANA 1424
The story of slavery 2000
Richard Arsenault and David House
Traces the history of slavery in the United States. 1 videocassette
DANA 1805
The strange demise of Jim Crow 1998
Thomas R Cole, David Berman, Tom Curtis, Bill Howze, and Lorenzo Thomas
Told by the participants themselves, this documentary reveals the behind-the-scenes compromises, negotiations, and the controversial news black-outs which helped bring about the quiet desegregation of commercial establishments in Houston, Texas. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
MEDIA 2-5855
Struggles in steel a story of African-American steelworkers 1996
Tony Buba, Ray Henderson, and Dennis C Dickerson
Interviews with more than 70 retired black steelworkers who tell of struggles with the company, the union and white co-workers to break out of the black job ghetto. Film traces a century of black industrial history--the use of blacks as strikebreakers against the all-white union during the 1892 Homestead Strike, the Great Migration of fieldworkers to the North in World War I, the racial divisions between workers during the Great Steel Strike of 1919 and the ultimate success of the CIO organizing drives of the 1930s. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA DANA 2-2994 872
Then I'll be free to travel home c1999
Eric V Tait, Ann S Hayward, Raymond A Peterson, Lena Horne, Gail Lumet Buckley, EVT Educational Productions, Inc, and Cinema Guild
The story of the discovery of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan and the fight throughout the 1990's to preserve it is told in the context of the history of African-Americans in New York during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. 2 videocassettes (142 min.)
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This house of power Notre Chatman and Hosea Sanders
A tribute to the role of the church in the African-American experience, this documentary traces the development of the church from its origins as an "invisible institution" among the slaves to its present-day role as a major force for social change. 1 videocassette (64 min.)
DANA 1130
A time for justice 2001
Charles Guggenheim
Depicts the major events of the American civil rights movement up until the passage of the 1964 Voting Rights Act with eyewitness accounts and original footage. 1 videocassette (38 min.)
MEDIA 2-6119
To be somebody 199-?
Stephen Stept and Joe Morton
Many Americans, struggling to survive the Great Depression, were determined to help build a better America through direct action in the courts, in the Congress and in everyday life. Black heavy-weight champion Joe Louis became a symbol of national strength at a time when lynchings, segregation, and anti-semitism were commonplace. In different ways both Louis and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt challenged America to live up to its promise of justice and opportunity for people of every race and faith. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
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To serve my country, to serve my race 1997
Lawrence E Walker, Cathleen Wiggins, Arnette Phipps, and Brenda L Moore
Using interviews and archival footage, the program shows the contribution black women in the military made to World War II and the discrimination they encountered. 1 videocassette (59 min.)
MEDIA 2-6037
Too close to heaven the story of gospel music c1997
Alan Lewens, Leo St. Clair, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Films for the Humanities (Firm), CTVC (Firm), International Broadcasting Trust, Channel Four (Great Britain), and Jerusalem Productions
Using narration and performance footage, this film traces the 200 year history of gospel music from black churches, to the civil rights movement, to its influence on modern jazz, blues, and rock and roll. 3 videocassettes (51 min. each)
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Toward a New Day, 1965-1980 1991
William Miles, Clayton Riley, and Adolph Caesar
Covers Harlem's decline and rebirth, the Harlem churches and some predictions for the future. Features James Farmer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-1377
Toward freedom, 1940-1965 1991, 1990
William Miles, Clayton Riley, and Adolph Caesar
Covers Harlem's politics of protest, World War II, the emergence of uptown gangs and social growth in the 1960's, the Apollo Theater, the emergence of Malcolm X. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-1376
Traces of the trade a story from the deep north 2008
Katrina Browne, Alla Kovgan, Ebb Pod Productions, and California Newsreel (Firm)
"Filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain a powerful new perspective on the black/white divide" -- Container. 1 videodisc (86 min.)
MEDIA 10-1367
Trial by television 1993
Bill Kurtis, Bob Harris, Paul Gallagher, and Caroline Sommers
From sensational television news coverage and "movies-of-the-week" to cameras in every courtroom in America, the effect of mass audience participation during law enforcement process poses serious questions about the outcome of criminal proceedings. 1 videocassette (50 min.)
DANA 1246
The truth about slavery in history 1998
Richard Arsenault
Explores the history of slavery throughout the world with a concentration on the American slave trade. 1 videocassette (22 min.)
DANA 1846
"Tryin' to get home" a history of African American song 1993
Kerrigan Black, Larry Cross, and Ellison Horne
A performance by Kerrigan Black of seventeen songs, from slavery's spirituals to contemporary rap, placed in historical context through the use of still photographs, film footage, and documented monologues. The performances are followed by a brief biographical sketch of Kerrigan Black. 1 videocassette (55 min.)
MUSIC 290
The Tuskegee airmen 1995
Robert Markowitz, William C Carraro, Paris Quallos, Trey Ellis, Roy Hutchinson, Robert Williams, T. S Cook, Larry Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B Vance, Andre Braugher, Chris McDonald, John Lithgow, and Cuba Gooding
A celebration of the "Fighting 99th", the first squadron of black combat fighters in World War II, who battled prejudice in training at Tuskegee, Ala., the Axis in North Africa and Europe, bigotted officers assigned to oversee them, and a U.S. congressman out to prove they were unfit to serve. 1 videocassette (106 min.)
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The Tuskegee airmen 2003
W. Drew Perkins, Bill Reifenberger, Ossie Davis, Rubicon Film Productions, and PBS Home Video
A history of the pilots who faced discrimination in their effort to fly combat aircraaft for their country. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)
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Unchained memories readings from the slave narratives c2003
Jacqueline Glover, Thomas Lennon, Mark Jonathan Harris, Ed Bell, Angela Bassett, Michael Boatman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Don Cheadle, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Robert Guillaume, Jasmine Guy, C. C. H Pounder, Roger Guenveur Smith, Courtney B Vance, Vanessa Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Alfre Woodard, Whoopi Goldberg, Juliet Weber, HBO Documentary Films, Library of Congress, and HBO Video (Firm)
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930's, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. In the midst of the Great Depression, journalists and writers traveled the country to record the memories of the last generation of African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historical record. 1 videodisc (75 min.)
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Underground Railroad 1999
Alfre Woodard and Susan Michaels
Tells the story of the struggle to break the bonds of slavery in the American South: a story of secret codes, hidden way-stations and clandenstine "conductors." A story not of a railway, but of a loosely organized network of runaway slaves, freed blacks and anti-slavery whites, all willing to risk their lives in the name of liberty. Presenting dramatic re-creations of escapes, this documentary also chronicles the achievements of abolitionist figures Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman and William Lloyd Garrison. 1 videocassette (100 min.)
DANA 1820
Unearthing the slave trade 1994
John Rhys-Davies, Joe Wiecha, Tom Naughton, and Nicolas Valeor
On the eve of the American Revolution, New York City had the largest number of enslaved Africans of any colonial settlement outside Charleston. Though this has seldom been acknowledged, African labor was essential in the building of New York. Today, archeological excavation of sites on both sides of the Atlantic is bringing to light aspects of the slave trade long buried in the liberal minds of those north of the Mason-Dixon line. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
DANA. DANA. MEDIA 611 611 2-3336
An unlikely friendship c2002
Diane Bloom, Florence Gray Soltys, Lewis Lipsitz, Ann Atwater, C. P Ellis, and In-Focus (Firm)
In July 1971, as the Southern city of Durham, N.C., struggled to cope with the racial upheaval of desegregation, community leaders gathered to discuss civic and school conditions. The 10-day meeting was co-chaired by Ann Atwater, an activist representing the Black community, and C.P. Ellis, who was one of the 10 Exalted Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). By the end of the congress, Ellis had publicly destroyed his KKK membership card, and he and Atwater -- who had disliked him on sight -- had forged a friendship that endures to this day. 1 videodisc (45 min.)
MEDIA 10-1883
Up south c1998
Andrea Ades Vasquez, Pennee Bender, Joshua Brown, American Social History Project, and American Social History Productions, Inc
Between 1916 and 1921, 500,000 African-Americans moved from the south to cities in the North. Mississipians chose Chicago as their destination in the great migration. This is their story. 1 videodisc (30 min.)
MEDIA 10-694
The voyage of La Amistad a quest for freedom 1998
Alfre Woodard, Charles Durning, Brock Peters, H. D Motyl, and Warneke J Smith
Chronicle of the story of the abducted Africans and their battles for freedom, first on the Amistad and then as they stood trial in a strange land, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court with various abolitionists and former president John Quincy Adams leading the way. 1 videocassette (70 min.)
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W.E.B. Du Bois a biography in four voices 1995
Louis Massiah, Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis , Toni Cade Bambara, and Imamu Amiri Baraka
In this film, four prominent African American writers, Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara and Amiri Baraka each narrate a period of his life and describe his impact on their work. 1 videocassette (116 min.)
MEDIA 2-2904
W.E.B. DuBois of Great Barrington 1992
Lillian Baulding
Traces the life of W.E.B. DuBois from his birth in Great Barrington, Massachusetts through his years in Ghana, Africa. This biographical program examines his life through archival footage, photographs, and interviews with people who knew him. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
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We can change the world 1991
David Hoffman and Carol Rissman
Examines the heady idealism of the 1960's when it seemed posible that youth could change the world ; when more teenagers entered college than ever before ; when John F. Kennedy inspired social and political activism on both the left and the right ; and when the civil rights movement reached a peak of influence, involvement, and momentum. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-1236
We shall overcome the song that moved a nation 1989
Jim Brown, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Guy Carawan, Taj Mahal, and Harry Belafonte
Originally a black religious song, then a union organizing song, "We shall overcome" gradually became the protest anthem that set America marching towards racial equality. By tracing the sources of one song, the film uncovers the diverse strands of social history which flowed together to form the Civil Rights movement. Julian Bond, Andrew Young and others reminisce about what this song meant during the sit-ins, voter registration drives and protest marches of the sixties. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
MEDIA 2-2030
Without fear or shame 1999
Sam Pollard and Betty Ciccarelli
This program discusses the lives of African-American leaders W.E.B Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph, and Marcus Garvey; the Harlem Renaissance and its major figures, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes.Examines the conflicts which arose over what art should express when community leaders seek to use it in the struggle for racial justice. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)
DANA. MEDIA 1349 2-4291
A woman called Moses c2001
Paul Wendkos, Ike Jones, Michael Jaffe, Cicely Tyson, Orson Welles, Will Geer, Robert Hooks, James Wainwright, Marcy Heidish, Xenon Pictures, Henry Jaffe Enterprises, and I.K.E. Productions
This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War. 1 videodisc (200 min.)
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Wrapped in pride the story of kente in America 2002
Kindra Orr and Ann Duquesnay
"Once reserved for African royalty, kente cloth has become a familiar pattern in American culture. [This] half-hour documentary ... looks at how this tradition textile crossed the Atlantic from the West African Republic of Ghana and made its way into everyday American life."--Container. 1 videocassette (27 min.)
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