Of Black America was a series of seven one-hour documentaries presented by CBS News in the summer of 1968, at the end of the Civil rights Movement and during a time of racial unrest (Martin Luther Kin...
67 viewsAdam Clayton Powell, Jr. (November 29, 1908 -- April 4, 1972) was an American politician and pastor who represented Harlem, New York City, in the United States House of Representatives (1945--71). Abo...
57 viewsIn this 1963 CBS News special, the late Harry Reasoner examines the economic and political scene in Harlem, a study in miniature of black leadership in conflict and crisis throughout America. Reaso...
55 viewsPeabody Award winning news report from 1963(co-hosted by Bob Teague) examining race and segregation in Chicago, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Maryland. From the Internet Archive. ##### Reelblack...
48 viewsMyrlie Evers, Medgar's widow and chair of the Medgar; Myrlie Evers Institute, heads a panel that also includes Julian Bond, former chairman of the NAACP, and Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter ...
99 viewsMedgar Evers was an activist in the American south that fought for equal rights. On June 12th, 1963, he was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith. In 1964, Beckwith was tried twice for the murder of Ev...
91 viewsTHE G-MAN INTERVIEWS: BARRY BRADFORD President’s Award Recipient and Acclaimed Historian Explains Why Every American Should Know About the Events **FAIR USE NOTICE** These Videos May Conta...
163 views"CBS News announced it would examine the myths and facts of Malcolm X in a news special, "Malcolm X: The Real Story," to be broadcast Thursday, Dec. ...
133 viewsBlack Natchez is about a genteel Southern town and two bombings a year and a half apart. The first bombing in August 1965 injured local NAACP president George Metcalfe. The second on February 27, 1967...
213 viewsThere is discrimination against black servicemen both on and off US military bases overseas, this month's Black Journal program concludes. Filmed on location in Vietnam, black servicemen are interview...
210 viewsGretchen Sorin, director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York and author of Driving While Black: African-American Travel and the Road to Civil rights; director Ric B...
124 viewsThe FBI investigates the nationally known case of the 1964 murders of three Civil rights workers in Philadelphia Mississippi amid the tension of the Civil rights movement. The FBI files are real FBI ...
192 viewsThis video explores the era of Reconstruction (1863-1877). After the divisive, destructive Civil War, Abraham Lincoln had a plan to reconcile the country and make it whole again. Then he got shot, ...
151 viewsThis video explores the era of Reconstruction (1863-1877). After the divisive, destructive Civil War, Abraham Lincoln had a plan to reconcile the country and make it whole again. Then he got shot, ...
255 viewsHAPI Talks with Shahrazad Ali about feminism and the plot to destroy the Black Family. Please visit www.hapifilm.com to get a copy of the Groundbreaking documentary film HAPI and all the latest HAP...
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