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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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| Turning Points of the Civil Rights Movement |
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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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AT THE RIVER I STAND
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 56 minutes, 1993 |
| During two eventful months in 1968, what began as a local labor dispute between striking African American sanitation workers and the white power structure of Memphis grew into the devastating tragedy of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a national struggle for racial and economic justice. It marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement MORE... |
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BLACK PANTHER / SAN FRANCISCO STATE: ON STRIKE
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 34 minutes, 2 titles on 1 cassette or DVD, 1969 |
| In interviews, Huey P. Newton describes the origins of the Panthers, Minister of Information Eldridge Clear explains their appeal to the Black community and Chairman Bobby Seals explains their 10 Point Program. San Francisco State: On Strike recounts how a student strike succeeded in creating the first Ethnic Studies department on a college campus in America. 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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FEBRUARY ONE
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DVD and Educational Streaming, 61 minutes, 2004
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| In one remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course of American history. February One tells the inspiring story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that revitalized the Civil Rights Movement and set an example for student militancy of the coming decade. MORE... |
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FREEDOM ON MY MIND
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| DVD, 110 minutes, 1994 |
| This documentary reconstructs the story of the Mississippi freedom movement of the early 1960s and the voter registration drives, which led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. MORE... |
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HOXIE: THE FIRST STAND
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 56 minutes, 2003, |
| Documents the first battle to implement the Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision fought in the small, rural town of Hoxie, Arkansas. MORE... |
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JULY '64
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| DVD and Educational Streaming, 54 minutes, 2006, |
| Summer, 1964: Violence erupted on a hot July night in Rochester, New York. July '64 tells the story of an unrest that altered the course of history in Rochester, and predicted urban unrest throughout the American North. 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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NEGROES WITH GUNS: ROB WILLIAMS AND BLACK POWER
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DVD and Educational Streaming, 53 minutes, 2005,
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| Negroes with Guns is the story of a forgotten Civil Rights fighter who dared to advocate armed self-defense in the face of racist terrorism of the Jim Crow South. This remarkable film tells of the life and times of Robert F. Williams, the forefather of the Black Power movement, who broke dramatic new ground by internationalizing the African American struggle. MORE... |
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