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Until September 2012, DVDs from our African American Perspectives collection are available for up to 75% OFF their list prices Colleges, Universities and Government Agencies can buy 10 or more titles for ONLY $49.95* each. High schools, public libraries, HBCUs and Qualifying Community Organization can purchase titles for $24.95* each. Choose from over 50 documentaries spanning centuries of African American history, literature and culture and titles addressing racial justice themes
*The following titles are exempt from these special offers: Freedom on My Mind, Have You Heard from Johannesburg?, No!, Skin Deep, and W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices. |
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| Foundations of the Freedom Struggle |
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A. PHILIP RANDOLPH: FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM
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DVD, 86 minutes, 1996,  |
| A biography of the labor, activist and pioneer civil rights leader who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters led the fight to desegregate the military and defense industries, and planted the seeds for the 1963 March on Washington. MORE... |
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THE BLACK PRESS: SOLDIERS WITHOUT SWORDS
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DVD, 86 minutes, 1998,
Facilitator Guide Available |
| Archival footage and interviews trace the history of African American newspapers and journalism from the Antebellum period to the Civil Rights Movement. MORE... |
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BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN
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DVD, 83 minutes, 2002,
Facilitator Guide Available |
| Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. Bayard Rustin's activism for peace, racial equality, economic justice and human rights, and how he navigated through his life and career as an openly gay man are the themes of this portrait. MORE... |
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GOIN' TO CHICAGO
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DVD, 71 minutes, 1994
Facilitator Guide Available |
| The migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North and West during and after World War II is retold through personal stories of a group of Chicagoans born in the Mississippi Delta. MORE... |
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HOMECOMING
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DVD, 56 minutes, 1999
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| The rural roots of African American life are explored through the Black farmer's story from Reconstruction through the agricultural crisis of the '20s and '30s and, eventually, to the system of federal farm loans and subsidies on which all farmers depend today. MORE... |
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IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE
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| DVD, 53 minutes, 1989 |
| Documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. MORE... |
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MILES OF SMILES, YEARS OF STRUGGLE
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 58 minutes, 1989 |
| The story of the organizing of the first black trade union - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - provides an account of African American working life between the Civil War and World War II. MORE... |
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OH FREEDOM AFTER WHILE
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 56 minutes, 1999 |
| The story of the 1939 Missouri sharecroppers strike reveals the complex issues of cotton farming in the early 1930s and what it was like to be a sharecropper in that time. MORE... |
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RALPH BUNCHE: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY
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| DVD, 117 minutes, 2001 |
| Ralph Bunche was a statesman, peace negotiator, and the first person of color to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Bunche overcame racial prejudice and poverty in America to become Undersecretary General of the United Nations. MORE... |
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RALPH ELLISON: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY
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DVD, 87 minutes, 2002,
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| An introduction to the complex author of Invisible Man including the first-ever dramatized scenes from that book. MORE... |
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