Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This silent 1968 footage documents civil unrest in ...
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1,479 viewsThe decades after the civil war saw Black Americans slowly gain more economic and political power in some parts of the country. Some bought land, started businesses and built schools. But in many plac...
1,325 viewsLand of the free? Justice for all? Artist/activist Michael D'Antuono's short film offers a different perspective, exposing the the deep-rooted racism permeating the criminal justice system i...
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911 viewsUnrest in the 1960's had created a situtation of high unemployment, this time driven by modernization, rather than economic depression. This time the target was . Here's an ABC News Speci...
1,690 viewsAl Jazeera presenter Tony Harris takes a personal look at Baltimore's inner city and an education system that has failed black Americans. Baltimore, Maryland has come to be known as 'C...
1,242 viewsBetween 1970 and 2012, the number of black elected officials rose from fewer than 1,500 to more than 10,000. How has this affected the black community? Jason Riley of The Manhattan Institute answers t...
2,182 viewsHuey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 -- August 22, 1989) was an African-American political and urban activist who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. About the book: h...
1,342 viewsThe Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that lasted up until the 1960s. About the book: ht...
1,198 viewsGreat panel discussion in the aftermath of the Watts uprising exploring the future of America, the successes and failures of the Civil Rights movement and the need for financial empowerment in additi...
1,152 viewsEdward Puchner (University of South Carolina) During the Second World War, the African American press featured scathing editorial cartoons to outline the paradoxical stance of African Americans withi...
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