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 ...
849 viewsAmerican 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...
747 viewsTo commemorate 45 years since the passing of civil and human rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, Monica Land, Mrs. Hamer’s great-niece and executive producer of FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMER...
1,178 viewsCivil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer is remembered by those who worked side by side with her in the struggle for voting rights. An African-American sharecropper from the Mississippi Delta, Hamer’s d...
1,282 viewsFor the family of Fannie Lou Hamer, she was a woman of power and presence as a civil and human rights activist. But to Jacqueline Hamer Flakes, Monica Land, and Jimmy Lee Lacey, she was also so much m...
1,278 viewsIn October of 2018, hundreds of young conservatives of color met up in Washington, DC, for the first ever Young Black Leadership Summit: a four-day conference that featured speeches from conservative ...
787 viewsFifty years ago, Stokely Carmichael first publicly uttered the phrase “Black Power” at a rally during the March Against Fear in Mississippi. Four months later, the Black Panther Party was founded ...
993 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...
1,143 viewsThe 1960s was the decade of the counterculture, which encouraged a revolution of social norms in clothing, music, drugs, dress, sexuality, formalities, and education. Some also describe the decade as ...
915 viewsA recently donated film to the Public Policy collections of the Mudd Manuscript Library, long thought lost has been digitized and is now viewable online. Segregation and the South,a film produced in 1...
957 viewsMamie Till-Mobley's activism extended far beyond what she did in regards to her son's death. However, since her son's death became symbolic for many of the lynchings going on i...
914 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...
1,846 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 ...
1,187 viewsAs people witness the protests continue across the country, as America is forced to face years of racial injustice, one can’t help but think of how history is somehow repeating itself. In the t...
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