American short documentary film about the Birmingham, Alabama civil rights marches in the 1960's, highlighting the bravery of young activists involved in Children's Crusade (1963). In 20...
728 viewsNew 16mm restoration (thanks to a grant from the National Preservation Foundation)! A documentary presentation from the point of view of the Vice Lords, a group of boys on Chicago's West Side,...
917 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...
847 viewsHistory-making moments in the Civil Rights struggle of the last decade pass in review. This documentary, narrated by Ossie Davis, traces the impact of the new Negro militancy on both Negro and white A...
997 views1 hour program, produced in 1963 by WGBH, originally shot on film. Although most northern whites profess liberality and fair play, when the Negro advances in the direction of his pocketbook, his re...
1,006 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...
1,324 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...
1,356 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 repo...
1,846 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...
1,785 viewsW.E.B. DuBois Speaks! Socialism and the American Negro. The venerable W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963), historian and activist, gives an address to the Wisconsin Socialist Club in Madison on socialism and ...
1,158 views#MartinLutherKingJr #Interview #BlackLivesMatter Five years before his assassination and just as the civil rights movement began to move into full swing, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sits down with ...
2,008 viewsEven as the inspiring words of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech rang out from the Lincoln Memorial during the historic March on Washington in August of 1963, racial relati...
1,241 viewsTelevision became the primary source by which people were kept informed of events surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. In fact, television started to come of age before the assassination....
1,767 viewsPart eleven of a 15-part series of documentaries produced by the American Broadcasting Company on the 20th century and the rise of the United States as a superpower. After the assassination of John...
1,204 viewsPart ten of a 15-part series of documentaries produced by the American Broadcasting Company on the 20th century and the rise of the United States as a superpower. The first few years of the 1960s p...
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