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... Summary: "In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the civil rights movement and its impact on present day social policies. In this documentary which covers the NAACP's early battles to end segregati ...

... Ernest Vandiver, and others. Narrated by Julian Bond, the documentary fills a significant void in civil rights history and the implications are profound, particularly in the midst of current policy conce ...

... aw school. From 1950 to 1956, Ward battled for admittance to UGA, with the help of prominent civil rights attorneys such as Austin Walden, Donald Hollowell, Constance Baker Motley and Atlanta University Pr ...

... rdisciplinary Qualitative Studies (1/01), will be shown at the National Association of Black Social Workers Conference (4/01), and has been shown at several community events."--2000 Peabody Awards entry form ...

... Summary: "In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the civil rights movement and its impact on present day social policies. In this documentary which covers the NAACP's early battles to end segregati ...

... Ernest Vandiver, and others. Narrated by Julian Bond, the documentary fills a significant void in civil rights history and the implications are profound, particularly in the midst of current policy conce ...

... aw school. From 1950 to 1956, Ward battled for admittance to UGA, with the help of prominent civil rights attorneys such as Austin Walden, Donald Hollowell, Constance Baker Motley and Atlanta University Pr ...

... rdisciplinary Qualitative Studies (1/01), will be shown at the National Association of Black Social Workers Conference (4/01), and has been shown at several community events."--2000 Peabody Awards entry form ...

... gaging students with the people and stories of early America, furnishing a context for the study of American history, introducing the tools of historical exploration, and helping teachers improve their histor ...

... in New Mexico and Canada, and have stretched in time from the early 1700's to the aftermath of the Civil War. We believe that the body of educational programming from Colonial Williamsburg is unique in t ...

... randfather, was courageously involved in the Civil Rights movement. The program tracks down the two Civil Rights workers whom Elmore once housed and worked alongside, returning with them to Mississippi where 40 years ear ...

... le weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's ...

... reedom Summer was marked by sustained and deadly violence, including the notorious murders of three civil rights workers, countless beatings, the burning of 35 churches and the bombing of 70 homes and community centers. < ...

... imed filmmaker Stanley Nelson, Freedom Summer highlights an overlooked but essential element of the civil rights movement: the patient and long-term efforts by outside activists and local citizens in Mississippi ...

... Summary: "2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the passage of one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in American history, the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The two-part special, MISSISSIPPI INFERNO ...

... nny Glover. This past November President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to slain civil rights activists James Cheney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, who the Ku Klux Klan murdered ...

... y the next three targets were not 'outside agitators,' but three black landowners who allowed civil rights workers to stay in their homes. This group of black landowners and independent farmers were willing ...

... who were otherwise committed to non-violence. Willing to risk it all, they changed the course of American history. Powerful southern white officials may have been worried more about African Americans using ...

... ion of the civil rights movement. When Martin Luther King, Jr. asked him to help boost morale among civil rights workers in Georgia or Alabama, Robinson took the next available flight. He stumped for politicians whom he ...

... my opinion is a bigot and a man who will attempt to prevent us from moving forward.' Later, as the civil rights movement he had once seemed to embody became more militant, its demands more strident, he was accus ...

... plex life and legacy of an American icon whose life-long battle for first class citizenship for all African Americans transcends even his remarkable athletic achievements. 'Jackie Robinson,' Martin Luther King Jr. onc ...

... Taking The Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America ...

... r in 1964, when Mississippi segregationists were arming themselves against the coming "invasion" of civil rights workers. American Experience examines how the forces assembled against the three civil rights workers were not just v ...

... cious, armed Klansmen but state legislators, who were passing repressive laws; a state funded, anti-civil rights spy agency; and police. Together these actors made it possible for a Klan mob to commit murder and ...

... ply with our audiences on social media, as the nation grappled with police brutality toward African Americans and their allies. The film drew hundreds of thousands of views on social media in its first few day ...

... inue today. Using moving testimony from those who lost loved ones to COVID-19 and frontline medical workers in overwhelmed hospitals, expert interviews and powerful data, the film exposes the devastating tol ...

... . The screening tour reached over 130 organizations, partnering with groups like the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association and engaging with medical and nursing schools ...

... Smithsonian Affiliates hosted screenings through this special initiative, including the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama; the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, CA; and Scie ...

... Summary: "STRUGGLES IN STEEL: A STORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN STEEL WORKERS is a moving tribute to the 100-year struggle of African-American steelworkers for equal rights in the mills. Through archival foota ...

... ive action programs and stimulus discussion about the interrelated issues of race, labor, and civil rights. Co-Director/Co-Producer Ray Harrison'himself a civil rights worker, former steelworker and head of ...

... aker Tony Buba (also Co-Director/Co-Producer) have made a key contribution to the historiography of American labor, recovering a long-ignored story of injustice and determination'one that remains eminently re ...

... James H. Gray, editor of Albany Herald newspaper, condemns local and national civil rights leaders in Albany for using children and students in demonstrations, disrespecting the law, and upsetting the community's ...

... peace. He specifically criticizes Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes footage of African American students attending a meeting in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church and approaching the Albany Carnegie Library. WSB notes indic ...

... 11-12-77
00:24:50 - 00:25:27
Train engine and caboose, soldiers march in uniform, with American flags, sergeant calls the march
 
23. Command Raise 11-12-77
00:25:30 - 00:27:02< ...

... g sermon.
 
30. Jesse Jackson 11-13-77
00:34:50 - 00:36:15
Protest of South African Gold Krugerrand as symbol of Apartheid.  Jesse Jackson and other black man having press conference. ...

...   Take the profit out of Apartheid, says Jackson, like they did in Birmingham during the civil rights movement.
 
31. Talmadge 11-13-77
00:36:17 - 00:36:52
Talmadge interviewed about medic ...

... eporter: Bjorkman, Ernie
 
38. Lockheed Strike 11-14-77
00:45:27 - 00:46:10
Workers picketing across entrance to Lockheed plant.  No voice over just the sound of cars on nearby road.< ...

... 17:53 - 00:19:35
Diane Bulger reports from patients’ room at veteran’s hospital. Unidentified African American patient said he can’t celebrate Independence day because he’s in the hospital. Unidentified white p ...

... atient weaves on a loom. Second unidentified African American is thankful that he is alive.
Reporter: Bulger, Diane

15. Fireworks 7-4-78
00:19:38 - 00:20:01
Fireworks finale aga ...

... /> Fire truck and police cars parked behind overturned tractor-trailer truck. Tow truck with cable rights the truck. Boxes have fallen out of hole in front of truck.

25. Prison Decision 7-5-78< ...

... er unidentified man is interviewed by Pickard and another reporter about the case, and mentions the Civil Service Board.
Reporter: Pickard, Marc

29. Four-Car Accident 7-6-78
00:38:2 ...

... 9 - 00:39:12
Don McClellan reports from scene of four-car accident. EMS workers and firemen load accident victim onto stretcher and into Dekalb County Fire Department ambulance.
Reporter: McClell ...

... President John F. Kennedy addresses what appears to be an OAS (Organization of American States) Conference on the need to protect democracy from communism, namely Cuba. Kennedy emphasizes American resolve to ...

... Newsfilm Clip From September 4, 1963 Shows The Bomb Damage Done To The Birmingham, Alabama Home Of African American Attorney Arthur Shores. The Clip Begins With African American Men And Women Outside The Home, Some ...

... he Bombing. Shores' House Had Also Been Bombed Two Weeks Earlier, On August 21. Shores Was The Only African American Lawyer In Birmingham During Part Of The 1930S And The 1940S. He Was Also One Of Few Africa ...

... n American Lawyers To Argue His Own Cases In Court During A Time When Most Turned Their Arguments Over To A White Attorney. In 1956 Shores Had Successfully Argued For The Admittance Of Autherine Lucy As The F ...

... ly Twenty Others Were Injured. Violent Segregationists In Birmingham Bombed Homes And Businesses Of Civil Rights Leaders So Frequently That The City Earned The Nickname "Bombingham." Another Bomb On September 15 ...

... 00:13:19
Natural sound video, radar images showing storms approaching Atlanta from northwest; workers inside WSB Weather Center looking at printed data, radar determining what to report about weather w ...

... es her reaction to situation; on camera, unidentified reporter describes flooding
 
16. Civil Defense 4-13-79
00:19:09 - 00:20:45
At Civil Defense headquarters, unidentified man iss ...

... /> 00:28:46 - 00:31:14
Natural sound ground level video of flooded neighborhood; unidentified African American reporter describes flooding on camera; two African American women comment on flood impact on their ...

... ior shots of building
 
39. Tyrone Brooks 4-16-79
00:42:54 - 00:43:45
Civil rights activist Tyrone Brooks distributes document at press conference; on camera, Brooks states that Dr. ...

... he message over footage of teletype machine printing a message.  A group calling themselves "United Americans" has taken twenty-eight Iranians hostage in New York, Illinois, California and Texas.  Reporter at h ...

... gested three black officers who were laid off during the cheating scandal be re-hired.  Interview - African American Patrolman's League.  Reporter stand-up in front of City Hall.
Reporter:  Pickard, Ma ...

... nally say they've experienced sexual harassment at work; employees can sue under Title Seven of the Civil Rights Act.  Interview - Black spokeswoman says female, as well as male employers, perpetrate sexual haras ...

... ffice where a woman types on a typewriter says victims can file a law suit under Title Seven of the Civil Rights Act.
Reporter:  Anzur, Terry

23. Firemen Class 12-5-79
00:28:52 - 00 ...

... lan, Don

40. Accident 12-6-79
00:53:09 - 00:54:05
Emergency Medical Service workers lift man on stretcher after accident of ambulance with passenger car at the corner of Woodfern Driv ...

... al rate from 15 cents to 20 cents by Feb or March of 1981, also the need to drop Saturday delivery. American Postal Workers Union’s Executive Vice President, David Johnston, says that the Union is against dro ...

... codes when he’s done, and that he would be done in a month. As reporter narrates, various shots of workers working on both the inside and outside of the house are shown.
Reporter: McClellan, Don
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...  
9.  NAACP News/Conf 4-21-1980
            00:15:14 - 00:16:56
Report on Civil Rights issues in Wrightsville, Georgia. Shot of Shen Hoster(?), director of the National Association for the Adva ...

... :39:31 - 00:40:04
Continuous shot of black-and-white photograph of unidentified missing young African American girl. No audio.
 
27.  Diplomat NBC 4-23-1980
            00:40:06 - 00: ...

... n injured woman on the ground, and several men with masks on holding guns (poor quality images); an American flag at half-mast; interview with Bernie May of the Summer Institute (natural sound); the outside o ...

... n's plan to cut the Black Lung Program; interview with Sam Church, the President of the United Mine Workers Union. Footage: Coal miners working in a mine; coal being shoveled; a report to Congress about the ...

... /> Voiceover: A report on Susan Lovell, a ballet teacher, and the ballet class that she teaches to African American girls in Atlanta. Footage: Young women in a ballet class (some natural sound); people watc ...

... ching; an unidentified male speaking at the University conference (natural sound); Joseph Lowery, a civil rights leader, speaking to the group at the rally (natural sound); people singing “We Shall Overcome” (nat ...

... (ABC News)

3. Budget Cut Plot 06-17-81 6
    00:03:24 - 00:04:48
Report on civil rights activists protesting budget cuts at the Chamber of Commerce. Footage of Hosea Williams protestors r ...

... ent to help investigate a crime in which no federal laws were broken.
Footage of a body of an African American person being carried into a plane; former Attorney General Griffin Bell, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jack ...

... uisiana on the bank of the Mississippi River; New Roads locals dancing and clapping in a diner; rig workers working at a natural gas well; shot of a plantation home; various shots of natural gas wells; excer ...

... olished building; various machines surrounding the building and destroying it; several construction workers and people on the street – natural sound.

6. Williams Indicted (Payne) 07-17-81 6
...

...  00:13:12 - 00:16:59
Voiceover: An overview of Bogalusa, Louisiana and its segregationist and civil rights history, including an African American self-defense group called the Deacons for Defense; interview ...

...  00:20:25 - 00:24:20
Voiceover: An overview of Philadelphia, Mississippi’s segregationist and civil rights history, including the freedom riders and the murders of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and M ...

... 1:22:50

Reporter voiceover of variable footage of GM auto assembly plant, Lakewood, and workers on production line with description of plant lay-offs and temporary closure at Hapeville Ford Assem ...

... ale crime victims meeting with crime victims' attorney Frank Strickland discussing lack of victims' rights compared to criminals. Closeups of individual black and white women describing crimes against them. ...

... ing Abraham Lincoln speaking to auditorium of school-children who are wearing costumes representing American history.
 
14. UAW Tenative 02-15-82 12
            00:21:25 – 00:22:33
Rep ...

...         00:27:00 – 00:28:26
Reporter voiceover of majority black congregation of Monroe First African Baptist Church gathering to protest official findings of investigation of black soldier’s death as ...

... Spec 4 Lynn Jackson whose body was earlier discovered hanging from a tree in Social Circle. Atlanta civil rights leader Hosea Williams at church podium speaks forcefully of racial injustice against black m ...

... estroyed building; man being detained at correctional facility - natural sound.

6.  So African Plant 12-20-82
00:04:11 – 00:04:32
Footage: South African landscape; security fence aro ...

... ng, Jerry

15.  ERA History 1-3-83
00:16:03 – 00:17:36
Voiceover: The Equal Rights Amendment failed to ratify, historians study the issue; interview with Ms. Scarr, of the American H ...

... istorical Association. Footage: crowd of protesters, musical performers; meeting of American Historical Association.
Reporter: Fleischer, Andrea

15a.  Not Listed – Trial 1-4-83
00:17: ...

... > Footage: people in line outside building; full waiting room with unemployment graph superimposed; workers in factory - silent.

20.  Elvis Day 1-8-83
00:23:00 – 00:23:32
Footage: cr ...

... – 00:26:28
Footage: flooded trailer park; men walk in muddy field - silent.

24.  Civil Rights 1-11-83
00:26:46 – 00:28:47
Voiceover: The Commission is concerned about violent ...

... r outside of the police department building. In 1984,  three Ku Klux Klan members were convicted of civil rights violations in the case.
Reporter: Sailor, Ron

7. Blizzard 2-11-83 6
00:07: ...

... . Footage: in Algiers, people climb onto a tank; unidentified man fires assault rifle into the air, civilians in the background; military truck drives down a road, displaying signs of victory; man hugs child; ...

... :30:45
Footage: Image of men working at construction site, onscreen text reads, “Construction Workers 19.7%”; image of man welding, onscreen text reads, “Factory Workers 13.3%”; image of African Americ ...

... . Legislature Black Caucus 2-15-83 6
00:02:11-00:02:57
Natural sound footage of various African American officials speaking on issues of civil rights and a call to action by the current elected officials. ...

... phones for the Gainesville area being temporarily knocked out.

16. Tornado Drill State Workers 3-2-83 6
00:20:27-00:22:28
Josh Littman reports (on-camera and in voiceover) on the tor ...

... University Professor Douglas McCabe on the future of unions in high technology. Footage of striking workers, telephone operators, and company officials and union representatives negotiating over table. On cam ...

... school superintendent of Lakeside School in DeKalb County, is put on trial regarding enrollment of African American students. Footage of students entering Lakeside, courtroom sketches. Voiceover narration. 

...          00:25:43 - 00:27:15
Reporter Al Walker details the situation in Beirut as French and American forces are attacked by Lebanese militia. Footage of combat, jet fighters, and US Marines taking cov ...