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862) Freedom on my mind
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English
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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.
863) Black wings
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English
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A documentary on the first African American aviators, examining the achievements of Bessie Coleman, William Powell, James Herman Banning, Thomas C. Allen, and Marlon Green.
864) Out of obscurity
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English
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Details a little-known chapter in civil rights history. In 1939 five young men staged what is believed to be the nation's first sit-in at a public library just outside Washington, DC, to protest the "separate, but equal" treatment of African-Americans. Includes a dramatization of the 1939 sit-in and a look at the role of local civil rights activist Samuel Wilbert Taylor.
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." This illuminating program, filmed during a guided tour of civil rights landmarks, blends potent archival footage and photos with group discussion to sensitively explore race relations in the U.S. Visits to Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham, Memphis, Atlanta, Orangeburg, and other locations, combined with eyewitness accounts of key events by survivors of those years, steer the group's dialogue....
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A news report presenting an extended interview with Medgar Evers filmed a year before his murder. The NAACP field secretary, WWII veteran, father and civil rights crusader dedicated nine years of his life to fighting racism before he was killed in 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. Evers discusses his efforts at registering and organizing black voters, as well as the many death threats he and his family received while waging a campaign for civil rights...
869) Adam Clayton Powell
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English
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Highlighting both his remarkable achievements and his fatal flaws, this documentary is a dramatic portrait of Adam Clayton Powell, the flamboyant black Congressman and minister who became one of the most powerful, controversial politicians of his time.
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English
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Taped segments introduced by Chris Bury (ABC) with John Donvan (ABC), attorney Doug Jones, Birmingham resident Reverend Hosea Agee, jury consultant Andy Sheldon, Reverend John Cross, and reporter Jerry Mitchell in response to issues surrounding recent attempts to bring to justice individuals guilty of committing racially motivated hate crimes in the 1960s.
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"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. This stirring investigative documentary restores that bloody tragedy to the history of the Civil Rights Movement after years of official denial"--Container.
873) I am somebody
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English
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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.
874) This is your right
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English
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Produced on the order of 60-Minutes or 20/20, this project uses as the name of its show, Human Rights TV. The anchors and field reporters all have disabilities and the entire show is devoted to people with disabilities. This is a thoughtful, hard hitting and at times, irrevent look at where people with disabilities have been and where they want to be.
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Union activists' efforts to improve working conditions at a chicken-packing plant in Laurel, Mississippi, are counterpointed with the repressive activities of the United Racist Front, a coalition of the KKK, the American Nazis, and the States Rights Party. Reinforces the fact that the following of such groups is on the rise in the United States, and offers hope that counter organizations working for civil and economic rights will also continue to...
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English
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When the radical wing of the civil rights movement began equating redress with rebellion rather than nonviolent protest, "Black power" became the rallying cry. In this program, filmed in 1966, Mike Wallace explores public sentiment during that turbulent period by assessing the attitudes, opinions and reactions on both sides of the color line. Interviews with major figures of the movement discussing black militancy, economic power, fair housing, nonviolence,...
878) A place of rage
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English
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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.
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English
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When Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in 1968 Memphis--like Dallas in 1963--became a symbol of hope extinguished. This program examines the Civil Rights Movement and the last few years of Martin Luther King's life with emphasis on the sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee and the killing of America's greatest civil rights leader, its impact on Afro-Americans and the nation.
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"The civil rights movement in the United States is usually thought of in terms of its leadership, but often the catalysts for progress were people who fought from within a larger group or performed individual acts of heroism. Some were victims who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. These are some of those stories"--Container.