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Subject: Civil Rights Movement
 
America Beyond the Color Line, Episodes 1 & 2
South: The Black Belt & Chicago: Streets of Heaven
Subject: African-American Studies, Civil Rights Movement
Category: Cultural Studies , American History
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. travels to four different parts of America - the East Coast, the deep South, inner-city Chicago and Hollywood. He explores this rich and diverse landscape, social as well as geo...

 

America Beyond the Color Line, Episodes 3 & 4
East Coast: Ebony Towers & Los Angeles: Black Hollywood
Subject: African-American Studies, Civil Rights Movement
Category: Cultural Studies , American History
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. travels to four different parts of America - the East Coast, the deep South, inner-city Chicago and Hollywood. He explores this rich and diverse landscape, social as well as geo...

 

Citizen King
Series: American Experience
Subject: African-American Studies, Civil Rights Movement
Category: Cultural Studies , American History
Citizen King pushes past the myths that have obscured King's story to reclaim the history of a people's leader. Using the personal recollections, diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts of friends, ...

 

Class Divided
Series: Frontline
Subject: Ethical Issues, Civil Rights Movement
Category: Current Issues , American History
One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is th...

 

In Remembrance of Martin
Subject: Civil Rights Movement, Revolutionaries
Category: American History , Biography
Personal comments from family, friends, and advisors fill this remarkable documentary honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Coretta Scott King joins the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Julian Bond, Jimmy Car...

 

Marcus Garvey
Series: American Experience
Subject: African-American Studies, Civil Rights Movement
Category: Cultural Studies , American History
He was both a visionary and a manipulator, a brilliant orator and a pompous autocrat. In just ten years following his emigration to the United States as a laborer in 1917, Marcus Garvey rose to lead t...

 

Matters of Race, Episodes 1 & 2
The Divide & Race Is/Race Ain't
Subject: African-American Studies, Civil Rights Movement
Category: Cultural Studies , American History
Part 1: Ten years ago, Siler City, North Carolina, was a black and white town of segregated communities with a shared geography and an unsettled history. This quiet, rural southern town is a 'laborato...

 

Matters of Race, Episodes 3 & 4
We're Still Here & Tomorrow's America
Subject: African-American Studies, Civil Rights Movement
Category: Cultural Studies , American History
Episode 3: This program a contemporary look at two communities often overlooked in the race dialogue: American Indians and Native Hawaiians.Through the stories of three families the film considers the...

 

Murder of Emmitt Till
Series: American Experience
Subject: African-American Studies, Civil Rights Movement
Category: Cultural Studies , American History
In August 1955, a black boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South...

 

Terry Sanford & The New South
Subject: Civil Rights Movement
Category: American History
By February of 1960, Terry Sanford had been working for the better part of a decade to win the governorship of North Carolina. But when four young black men sat down at a Woolworth counter in the city...