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 The American Experience

 The American Experience – Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind (2001)

Director: Stanley Nelson

Genre:  Documentary
Language: English
Subtitles: None

Rated: NR

The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1993)

Format: VHS

Director: Not Available
Genre:  Documentary
Language: English

Subtitles: None

Rated: NR

In August 1963, against the iconic backdrop of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech and transformed the civil rights movement in America. The eloquence and poeticism of the speech still echoes down through the generations, as reflected in this disc. A few years later, King (who had predicted his own martyrdom in the speech) was slain on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tenn.

The Buffalo Soldiers (1997) VHS

Director: Charles Haid

Genre:  Documentary
Language: English
Subtitles: None

Rated: NR

This turner Network Televison movie tells the true story of the black cavalry corps known as the 'Buffalo Soldiers.' These troops patrolled America's wild west after the civil war. In addition to keeping the peace, these men had to fight the racism of their commanders and other white corps soldiers.

Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History (1994) 

Format: VHS

Director: Orlando Bagwell

Genre:  Documentary
Language: English
Subtitles: None

Rated: NR

Available: www.amazon.com

A century before Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X, there was Frederick Douglass, arguably the most important and the earliest African American activist in United States history. This informative, inspiring documentary traces Douglass's heroic life and work. Born into slavery, Douglass was separated from his mother as a small child and forced into field labor on one of the largest plantations in the American South. There he witnessed such horrific brutality to his fellow slaves that by the age of 8 he wished that he had never been born. He was then sent to Baltimore to live as a house slave, an event he would later consider an act of divine providence. It was there that young Frederick learned to read and write, setting him on the path to become a powerful writer, orator, and agitator.

Douglass tried to organize his fellow slaves but was forced to escape north to Massachusetts. Celebrated antislavery activist William Lloyd Garrison asked him to speak at the Abolitionist Convention, leading to a career as a full-time lecturer and spokesman for the African American experience. Douglass broke with Garrison, feeling that the antislavery movement needed a black leader himself. He provided such pivotal leadership through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and afterwards, an incessant gadfly to white leaders (including President Lincoln) unwilling to go far enough to assure African American rights. To learn Douglass's fascinating life story is to discover the history of the African American struggle for freedom.

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 Promised Land

Promised Land (1995) VHS

Director: Not Available (Discovery Communication)

Genre:  Documentary
Language: English
Subtitles: None

Rated: NR

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This program documents the migration of rural Southern blacks from the segregated South to Chicago. Cultural and political gains become offset by overcrowding and increasing ghettoization, as Northern politicians ignore resentment that explodes in the Sixties. Finally, Chicago gets its first African-American mayor; many families move out of the ghetto to middle-class success; many others remain mired in a growing "underclass". Includes historical footage and personal interviews. The program has three parts: (1) Take me to Chicago; (2) A dream deferred; (3) Strong men keep a-comin' on.

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 Underground RR

Underground Railroad (1999)  

Director: Not Available
Genre:  Documentary
Language: English

Subtitles: None

Rated: NR

Actress Alfre Woodard hosts this program produced by the History Channel that looks at the 200-year struggle to end slavery in the American South. This moving production contains dramatic re-creations of daring escapes and in-depth looks at the lives and achievements of such influential figures as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman and William Lloyd Garrison.