The venerable series. Provides an excellent narrative outline of the movement.
Title: Awakenings [videorecording] : 1954-1956
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [1999?]
Description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Tells the story of two events that helped to focus the nation's attention on the rights of Black Americans to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: the 1955 lynching in Mississippi of 14-year old Emmett Till and the 1955-56 Montgomery, Ala. boycott. Also shows southern race relations at mid-century and witnesses the awakening of individuals to their own courage and power.
E185.61.E94 1999 no.1Title: Fighting back: 1957-1962 videorecording.
Imprint: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1986.
Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (57 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Examines the law both as a tool for change and resistance to change, particularly as it relates to education. Covers the court cases of the late 1940's that led to the 1954 Supreme Court Brown vs. Board of Education decision, the nine black teenagers who integrated Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, and James Meredith's enrollment at the University of Mississippi.
E185.61.E94 no.2Title: Ain't scared of your jails: 1960-1961 videorecording
Imprint: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1986.
Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Depicts the changing focus of black protest during the early 1960's from legal challenges to specific laws to personal and group challenges to a broad range of racial and economic inequities. Links four stories of the period: the lunch counter sit-ins, the formation of SNCC by the students who led the sit-ins, the impact of the sit-ins on the 1960 presidential campaign, and the freedom rides.
E185.61.E94 no.3Title: No easy walk [videorecording] : 1961-1963
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [1999?]
Description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Retells the stories of three cities involved in the civil rights movement. The Albany, Ga. police chief and Martin Luther King, Jr. each tested out the strategy of nonviolence in their own way. In Birmingham, Ala., children marched against fire water hoses, and in Washington, D.C., Black and White, young and old, North and South came together to march on the nation's capital.
E185.61.E94 1999 no.4Title: Mississippi [videorecording] : is this America? : 1962-1964
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [1999?]
Description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Focuses on the right to vote. Tells how the Black citizens who had been denied the right to vote stepped forward and demanded a place in the political process. Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and others, died trying to help them. Shows the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge the 1964 Democratic Party Convention.
E185.61.E94 1999 no.5Title: Bridge to freedom [videorecording] : 1965
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [1999?]
Description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Ten years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus and nearly twenty years after the Supreme Court decreed that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional, Black Americans were still fighting for equality. But millions had now joined the movement and in Selma, Ala. thousands of Blacks and Whites came together to march fifty miles for freedom.
E185.61.E94 1999 no.6
Title: The Time has come: 1964-1966 videorecording
Description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide.
Summary: In this program, the sense of urgency and anger in the black communities in the North is articulated by Malcolm X, a minister of the Nation of Islam. It shows his influence both within the civil rights movement and outside and the the influence of his philosophy on the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as they organize and issue the call for "Black power" in 1966 in Mississippi.
E185.61.E945 1990 no.1Title: Two societies, 1965-1968 videorecording
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va] : PBS Video, c1990.
Description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: This program explores the civil rights movement's first attempt at organizing in the North, as Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference go to Chicago. Their strategies come up against the powerful political machinery of Mayor Richard Daley. Also looks at the 1967 uprising in Detroit as blacks and the police clash on city streets.
E185.61.E945 1990 no.2Title: Power! 1967-1968 videorecording
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, c1990.
Description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Out of the ashes of the urban rebellions, blacks look for new ways to take control of their communities. This program explores the political path to power for Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major city in the United States. It also describes the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Calif. and the struggle of black and Hispanic parents in Brooklyn, N.Y. to improve their children's education through community control of the schools.
E185.61.E945 1990 no.3Title: The Promised land: 1967-1968 videorecording
Imprint: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1990
Description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide
Summary: In the final year of Martin Luther King's life, the movement turned its attention to the economic issues confronting the nation and the ramblings of a far off war in Vietnam. Moved by the increasing level of poverty, King and his followers organized the Poor People's Campaign, a march of the poor to Washington, D.C. where they would build Resurrection City. After King's assassination in Memphis in 1968, his followers struggled to maintain the campaign.
E185.61.E945 1990 no.4Title: Ain't gonna shuffle no more (1964-1972) videorecording
Imprint: Alexandria, VA : PBS Video, c1990.
Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2in.
Summary: Covers the black consciousness movement throughout the country through the mid 1960's and early 1970's. Discusses Muhammad Ali's political battle over the Vietnam War. Explores the rise of black politicians and activists.
E185.61.E945 1990 no.5Title: A Nation of law? 1968-1971 [videorecording]
Imprint: [Alexandria, VA] : PBS Video, c1990.
Description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. & b&w. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: By the late 1960's, the anger in the poorer urban areas over charges of police brutality was smoldering. In Chicago, Fred Hampton formed a Black Panther Party chapter. During this same period, inmates at New York's Attica prison took over the prison in an effort to publicize intolerable conditions.
E185.61.E945 1990 no.6Title: The Keys to the kingdom, 1974-1980 videorecording
Description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. & b&w. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Examines the relationship between law and popular struggle. In Boston, black parents organized to improve their children's education. In Atlanta, Mayor Maynard Jackson, the city's first black mayor, tries to guarantee black involvement in the construction of Atlanta's airport. Also looks at Allan Bakke's challenge to affirmative action programs.
E185.61.E945 1990 no.7Title: Back to the movement, 1979-1983 videorecording
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, c1990.
Description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Examines two cities, one in the south the other in the north. In Miami, Florida, viewers witness the destruction of a black community. In the North, we see how Harold Washington gets elected as a Chicago's first black mayor.
E185.61.E945 1990 no.8