In this this archival documentary from PBS Wisconsin, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered on April 5, 1968, the day after his assassination. Combining studio interviews of community and civic lea...
537 viewsNarrated by Blair Underwood, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice is set in the strained and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided 1930's America, torn between boycotting Hitler's Olympics or partic...
791 viewsThere are few Chicago historical figures whose life and work speak to the current moment more than Ida B. Wells, the 19th century investigative journalist, civil rights leader, and passionate suffragi...
658 viewsDavid Susskind's historical, long and intimate interview with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Originally aired on June 9, 1963 by WPIX-TV New York. Among the subjects discussed were the current state of t...
578 viewsCentered on the relationship between black Republicans, the G.O.P., and civil rights during the 1950s and 1960s, Josh Farrington of the University of Kentucky contends that black Republicans prior ...
635 viewsBATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 10 —Two white deputy sheriffs and two young blacks were shot and killed and 31 persons were injured today in a wild exchange of gunfire that erupt ed when the police moved to ...
768 viewsThe 1967 Minneapolis riot was one of the 159 riots that swept across cities in the United States during the Long Hot Summer of 1967 On 20 July 1967, widespread violence erupted in North Minneapolis...
555 viewsAfter a white reporter was forcibly ejected from a “Blacks Only” rally, Miami police responded with five cars and a carbine unit, which exacerbated tensions. A white man in a car b...
495 viewsIn May 2004, after receiving an award at the celebration of the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling—a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that outlawed school racia...
766 viewsRead the book: COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Feder...
861 viewsThis 2-hour special, narrated by Deon Cole, gives a fresh perspective of the black movement in America, from Emancipation to the Civil Rights era. See more in this special. #StoriesfromtheRoadtoFre...
950 viewsWho killed Wharlest Jackson Sr.? In this feature-length documentary from FRONTLINE and Retro Report, an unsolved 1960s murder reveals an untold story of the civil rights movement and Black resistance....
698 viewsThe Mississippi Massacre (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories The FBI investigates the nationally known case of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia Mississippi amid th...
640 viewsThe Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) ...
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