Black history : a retrospective / Cine-O-Matic, Inc.

Features the life, culture, and accomplishments of some of the most influential African Americans in history from the United States. From the oppression and hardship during the time of the Civil War to civil rights movements that paved the way to this country's first African-American president. A de...

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Corporate Authors: Cine-O-Matic, Inc
Mill Creek Entertainment
Language:English
Published: [Golden Valley, Minn.] : Mill Creek Entertainment, [2009], ©2009.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials.
Subjects:
African Americans > History.
African Americans > Biography.
African American athletes > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
United States > Armed Forces > African Americans.
African American leadership.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
History.
African American athletes.
African American civil rights workers.
African Americans.
Armed Forces > African Americans.
United States.
Genre:
Biography.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
History.
Physical Description:3 videodiscs (approximately 888 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
Contents:
  • Disc 1: The plantation system in southern life
  • Henry Browne: farmer
  • The Civil War
  • Frederick Douglass: an American life
  • Jan Matzeliger
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Booker T. Washington: the life and legacy
  • Scott Joplin
  • Larry Lebby and Stone lithography
  • The life of Maggie Lena Walker
  • Highlights of 1936 Olympics Berlin
  • Carl Lewis on his career
  • The negro soldier
  • Negro colleges in war time
  • Black wings: the American black in aviation
  • The negro sailor.
  • Disc 2: African Americans in World War II
  • To do battle in the land
  • We work again
  • W.C. Handy
  • What about prejudice?
  • Martin Luther King: civil rights roundtable
  • Malcolm X: nationalist or humanist
  • Newsreel: the Black Panthers
  • The open mind: New negro with Martin Luther King
  • March in Washington
  • Poverty in America
  • Integration report
  • The negro in entertainment
  • The negro in industry.
  • Disc 3: The negro in sports
  • Lou Stovall
  • The Brown Bomber
  • The Longines chronoscope: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Paul Robeson: the tallest tree in our forest
  • African burial ground vol. 1
  • African burial ground vol. 2
  • African burial ground vol. 3
  • African burial ground vol. 4
  • Barack Obama: the power of hope.