African-American Lives : Listening to Our Past / Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Listening to our Past is a piecing together of the family histories of four of the series participants. The episode explores the post-World War I "Great Migration" of African-Americans from the South to northern cities like Detroit and Chicago, as well as those who stayed in the South during the per...
| Uniform Title: | Films on Demand.
African American lives. |
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2011], ©2005.
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| Series: | Films on Demand.
African American lives. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (54 min.) : sound, color, digital file. |
| Variant Title: |
Listening to Our Past |
| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Summary: |
Listening to our Past is a piecing together of the family histories of four of the series participants. The episode explores the post-World War I "Great Migration" of African-Americans from the South to northern cities like Detroit and Chicago, as well as those who stayed in the South during the period of Jim Crow segregation. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. also begins an intriguing examination of his own family's past, recounting the discovery of a box of photographs and heirlooms that sparked an obsession with his ancestry. |
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| Note: | Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 21, 2011. Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware. Electronic resource. |
| Interest Grade Level: |
9 & up. |
| System Details: | System requirements: FOD playback platform. |
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Title from distributor's description. |