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AT THE RIVER I STAND
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 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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BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES
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| DVD, 118 minutes, 1990 |
| This now-famous college town came to symbolize the era that shaped a generation and forever changed this country. Interweaving footage and music from the time with insightful recollections from 15 former leading political and cultural activists this remains the outstanding examination of the late 1960s. MORE... |
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BLACK PANTHER / SAN FRANCISCO STATE: ON STRIKE
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 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 Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 61 minutes, 2004
Facilitator Guide Available |
| 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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FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK
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| DVD and and 35mm, 52 minutes, United Kingdom, 1996, in English and French with English subtitles |
| Dramatization and documentary trace Fanon's intellectual development. Cultural critics position his pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on the colonized and colonizer alike. 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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JAMES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET
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| DVD, 87 minutes, 1990 |
| Film biography of the life of James Baldwin includes excerpts from his work . Writers Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed and William Styron discuss Baldwin's influence. MORE... |
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JULY '64
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 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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REVOLUTION '67
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DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 90 minute version and 83 minute PBS version on one DVD, 2007, closed caption (PBS version only)
Facilitator Guide Available |
| An illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history - the Black urban rebellions of the 1960's. Focusing on the six-day Newark, N.J. outbreak on July 12, 1967, the film reveals how the disturbance began as spontaneous revolts against poverty and police brutality and ended as fateful milestones in America's struggles over race and economic justice. MORE... |
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