The Brown Decision: A Family Legacy
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She is the daughter of Rev. Oliver Brown, who along with 12 other families, filed suit against a local board of education in Kansas. Their case made its way to the U. S. Supreme Court and on May 17, 1954 became the l...
On The Stump with Alex Haley
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What can Alex Haley tell us about the impact of ROOTS has had on Blacks and Whites?
Gold Is Also Black: The Story of a Black Quarterback
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Sandy Stephens was the first Black man to play quarterback for the storied University of Minnesota football team. In many ways, he was a forerunner of the athletic quarterbacks in the NFL today, scrambling to extend p...
Walk To Freedom
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June 23, 1963, in Detroit’s Cobo Hall, I intensely listened to Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, for what many historians claim was the first time. Dr. King was in Detroit for the “...
Will the India Model Work for America’s Have-Nots?
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There are organizations and academic institutions that are trying to close the Digital Divide between the have and the have-nots. Dr. Dolores Cross, president of Morris Brown College, and Michele Lezama, executive di...
Who Was Medgar Evers?
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As of 1984 when this documentary was made, no one had been convicted in the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP Field Director Medgar Evers. This legendary leader’s voter registration and economic boycott drives p...
From The Library of Black History: The Longest Struggle
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This 30-minute version of the story of Black America and the NAACP’s 75-year march to freedom and justice. (1307)
