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Banished
directed by Marco Williams, 1956- (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2007), 1 hour 24 mins
Banished vividly recovers the too-quickly forgotten history of racial cleansing in America when thousands of African Americans were driven from their homes and communities by violent, racist mobs. The film places these events in the context of present day race relations by following three concrete cases where blac...
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directed by Marco Williams, 1956- (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2007), 1 hour 24 mins
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Banished vividly recovers the too-quickly forgotten history of racial cleansing in America when thousands of African Americans were driven from their homes and communities by violent, racist mobs. The film places these events in the context of present day race relations by following three concrete cases where black and white citizens warily explore if there is common ground for reconciliation over these expulsions. Banished raises this larger que...
Banished vividly recovers the too-quickly forgotten history of racial cleansing in America when thousands of African Americans were driven from their homes and communities by violent, racist mobs. The film places these events in the context of present day race relations by following three concrete cases where black and white citizens warily explore if there is common ground for reconciliation over these expulsions. Banished raises this larger question: will the United States ever make meaningful reparations for the human rights abuses suffered, then and now, against its African American citizens? Can reconciliation between the races be possible without them?
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Marco Williams, 1956-
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
California Newsreel
Topic / Theme
Communities, Race relations, Black Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012. Used by permission of California Newsreel. All rights reserved.
Subject
Communities, Race relations
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How To Become Sheriff... when born poor and black in segregated Mississippi
directed by Donald Blank (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002), 53 mins
For two centuries, Mississippi blacks have had to endure slavery, poverty, discrimination, and violence. Finally in the 1960's, the civil rights campaign in the South brought real change. Mississippi now has thirteen elected black sheriffs. This film tells the story of one of them: Sheriff Frank Davis and how he g...
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directed by Donald Blank (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2002), 53 mins
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For two centuries, Mississippi blacks have had to endure slavery, poverty, discrimination, and violence. Finally in the 1960's, the civil rights campaign in the South brought real change. Mississippi now has thirteen elected black sheriffs. This film tells the story of one of them: Sheriff Frank Davis and how he gained acceptance by the community of Port Gibson as its major law enforcer. Frank was one of eleven children of Mary Triplett, whose mo...
For two centuries, Mississippi blacks have had to endure slavery, poverty, discrimination, and violence. Finally in the 1960's, the civil rights campaign in the South brought real change. Mississippi now has thirteen elected black sheriffs. This film tells the story of one of them: Sheriff Frank Davis and how he gained acceptance by the community of Port Gibson as its major law enforcer. Frank was one of eleven children of Mary Triplett, whose mother and grandmother had been victims of Jim Crow. Mary could not vote or eat in a restaurant of work as a clerk in a store. His father was a mechanic and although they never missed a meal, the Tripletts were very poor, attended segregated schools and lived in shabby houses on unpaved streets. In 1965, the Port Gibson branch of the NAACP organized the first non-violent civil rights marches and boycotts there. When young Frank attended the first civil rights rally, he was immediately fired from his job in a white-owned supermarket. Frank was drafted and sent to Korea. On his return, he was hired as Deputy Sheriff by Port Gibson's white sheriff, with one piece of advice, "Be fair." He was then elected to the office, becoming one of the first three black sheriffs elected in Mississippi since Reconstruction. Thanks to Federal civil rights legislation and enforcement, along with the brave efforts of its black citizenry, this town has come a long way. College Adult
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Biography
Author / Creator
Donald Blank
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Person Discussed
Frank Davis
Topic / Theme
Race and culture, Communities, Elections, Law enforcement, U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-, Ethnic Studies, Black Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2002. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
Subject
Race and culture, Communities, Elections, Law enforcement
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Trouble Behind
directed by Robby Henson; produced by Robby Henson (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1990), 54 mins
Trouble Behind shows how present and past are tied in a fearful knot as it searches for the origins of today's racism in the past brutality of a seemingly typical American town - Corbin, Kentucky, home of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Like many industrial centers, Corbin attracted African American sharecroppers looking...
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directed by Robby Henson; produced by Robby Henson (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1990), 54 mins
Description
Trouble Behind shows how present and past are tied in a fearful knot as it searches for the origins of today's racism in the past brutality of a seemingly typical American town - Corbin, Kentucky, home of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Like many industrial centers, Corbin attracted African American sharecroppers looking for better paying jobs during World War I. But when white veterans returned from the war, the found their close-knit community changed...
Trouble Behind shows how present and past are tied in a fearful knot as it searches for the origins of today's racism in the past brutality of a seemingly typical American town - Corbin, Kentucky, home of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Like many industrial centers, Corbin attracted African American sharecroppers looking for better paying jobs during World War I. But when white veterans returned from the war, the found their close-knit community changed and economic competition heated up. One October night in 1919, an armed white mob rounded up 200 black railroad workers, locked them into box cars, beat many of them, and then literally railroaded them out of town.
Interviews with eyewitnesses, scholars, newsreel clips and photos reconstruct events in Corbin and place that night in the national context of a resurgent Ku Klux Klan, the triumph of Jim Crow and 28 major race riots.
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Field of Study
Black History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Robby Henson
Author / Creator
Robby Henson
Date Published / Released
1990
Publisher
California Newsreel
Topic / Theme
Communities, Race relations, Black Studies
Copyright Message
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Subject
Communities, Race relations
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American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till, Part 1, Interview with Ben Hampton, Mississippi resident, 1 of 2
directed by Stanley Nelson, 1955-; produced by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, Firelight Media and WGBH Boston; interview by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, in American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till, Part 1 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 7 mins
This video contains an interview with Mississippi resident Ben Hampton about Emmett Till, an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
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directed by Stanley Nelson, 1955-; produced by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, Firelight Media and WGBH Boston; interview by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, in American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till, Part 1 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 7 mins
Description
This video contains an interview with Mississippi resident Ben Hampton about Emmett Till, an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Stanley Nelson, 1955-, Firelight Media, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Stanley Nelson, 1955-
Date Published / Released
2003, 2017
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till
Person Discussed
Ben Hampton, 1939-, Emmett Till, 1941-1955
Topic / Theme
Lynching, Racism, Communities, Race relations, U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-, Emmett Till, Killed, Greenwood, MS, August 28, 1955, War and Violence, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, Post-war Era (1945–1960), Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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© 2003-2017 WGBH Educational Foundation
Subject
Lynching, Racism, Communities, Race relations
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American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till, Part 2, Interview with Bill Minor, 2 of 2
directed by Stanley Nelson, 1955-; produced by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, WGBH Boston and Firelight Media; interview by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, in American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till, Part 2 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 10 mins
Bill Minor (continued) interview about Emmett Till, an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
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directed by Stanley Nelson, 1955-; produced by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, WGBH Boston and Firelight Media; interview by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, in American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till, Part 2 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 10 mins
Description
Bill Minor (continued) interview about Emmett Till, an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Stanley Nelson, 1955-, WGBH Boston, Firelight Media
Author / Creator
Stanley Nelson, 1955-
Date Published / Released
2003, 2017
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till
Person Discussed
Bill Minor, 1922-2017, Emmett Till, 1941-1955
Topic / Theme
Lynching, Prejudice, Communities, Trials and litigation, Journalists, Emmett Till, Killed, Greenwood, MS, August 28, 1955, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, War and Violence, Post-war Era (1945–1960), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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© 2003-2017 WGBH Educational Foundation
Subject
Lynching, Prejudice, Communities, Trials and litigation, Journalists
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Black Is...Black Ain't
directed by Marlon Riggs, 1957-1994; produced by Marlon Riggs, 1957-1994 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1995), 1 hour 27 mins
The final film by filmmaker Marlon Riggs, Black Is...Black Ain't, jumps into the middle of explosive debates over Black identity. Black Is...Black Ain't is a film every African American should see, ponder and discuss.
White Americans have always stereotyped African Americans. But the rigid definitions of "Blacknes...
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directed by Marlon Riggs, 1957-1994; produced by Marlon Riggs, 1957-1994 (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1995), 1 hour 27 mins
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The final film by filmmaker Marlon Riggs, Black Is...Black Ain't, jumps into the middle of explosive debates over Black identity. Black Is...Black Ain't is a film every African American should see, ponder and discuss.
White Americans have always stereotyped African Americans. But the rigid definitions of "Blackness" that African Americans impose on each other, Riggs claims, have also been devastating. Is there an essential Black identity? Is ther...
The final film by filmmaker Marlon Riggs, Black Is...Black Ain't, jumps into the middle of explosive debates over Black identity. Black Is...Black Ain't is a film every African American should see, ponder and discuss.
White Americans have always stereotyped African Americans. But the rigid definitions of "Blackness" that African Americans impose on each other, Riggs claims, have also been devastating. Is there an essential Black identity? Is there a litmus test defining the real Black man and true Black woman?
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Marlon Riggs, 1957-1994
Author / Creator
Marlon Riggs, 1957-1994
Date Published / Released
1995
Publisher
California Newsreel
Topic / Theme
Communities, Homosexuality, Race and culture, Racial identity, African-Americans, Black Studies, African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012. Used by permission of California Newsreel. All rights reserved.
Subject
Communities, Homosexuality, Race and culture, Racial identity, African-Americans
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Say Brother, Dissmissing Some Myths About Chinese-Americans
directed by Conrad White, fl. 1974; produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray, fl. 1979, WGBH Boston; interview by Barbara Barrow-Murray, fl. 1979, in Say Brother (Boston, MA: WGBH Boston, 1976), 29 mins
Host Barbara Barrow speaks with May Ling Tong, Director of the Chinese American Civic Association in Boston, about the history of Chinese people in Boston and the 'myths' held by non-Chinese Americans about the mental health and social service needs of the Chinese community. Additional segments include the 'Say Br...
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directed by Conrad White, fl. 1974; produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray, fl. 1979, WGBH Boston; interview by Barbara Barrow-Murray, fl. 1979, in Say Brother (Boston, MA: WGBH Boston, 1976), 29 mins
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Host Barbara Barrow speaks with May Ling Tong, Director of the Chinese American Civic Association in Boston, about the history of Chinese people in Boston and the 'myths' held by non-Chinese Americans about the mental health and social service needs of the Chinese community. Additional segments include the 'Say Brother News' with Eric Sampedro and Leah Fletcher, the 'Third World Connection' (about the genealogical connection between the Africans...
Host Barbara Barrow speaks with May Ling Tong, Director of the Chinese American Civic Association in Boston, about the history of Chinese people in Boston and the 'myths' held by non-Chinese Americans about the mental health and social service needs of the Chinese community. Additional segments include the 'Say Brother News' with Eric Sampedro and Leah Fletcher, the 'Third World Connection' (about the genealogical connection between the Africans and Chinese), a film review of Pipe Dreams by arts critic Tanya Hart, and the 'Community Calendar.'
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Barbara Barrow-Murray, fl. 1979, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Conrad White, fl. 1974, Barbara Barrow-Murray, fl. 1979
Date Published / Released
1976-12-03
Publisher
WGBH Boston
Series
Say Brother
Speaker / Narrator
Tanya Hart, fl. 1977, Leah Fletcher, fl. 1976, Eric Sampedro, fl. 1976
Person Discussed
Tanya Hart, fl. 1977, Leah Fletcher, fl. 1976, Eric Sampedro, fl. 1976, Tong May Ling, fl. 1976
Topic / Theme
Asian ethnic groups, Communities, Chinese people, Chinese, African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1976 by WGBH Boston Video
Subject
Asian ethnic groups, Communities, Chinese people
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Virginia African American Historic Sites Database
written by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2018),
Source: www.aahistoricsitesva.org
Source: www.aahistoricsitesva.org
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written by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2018),
Source: www.aahistoricsitesva.org
Source: www.aahistoricsitesva.org
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
General reference website
Author / Creator
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Topic / Theme
Communities, Historical research and historiography
Subject
Communities, Historical research and historiography
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American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till, Season 15, Episode 6, Interview with Richard Gardner
directed by Stanley Nelson, 1955-; produced by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, Firelight Media and WGBH Boston; interview by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, in American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till, Season 15, Episode 6 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 36 mins
Richard Gardner Interview about Emmett Till, an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
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American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till, Season 15, Episode 6, Interview with Richard Gardner
directed by Stanley Nelson, 1955-; produced by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, Firelight Media and WGBH Boston; interview by Stanley Nelson, 1955-, in American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till, Season 15, Episode 6 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 36 mins
Description
Richard Gardner Interview about Emmett Till, an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Stanley Nelson, 1955-, Firelight Media, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Stanley Nelson, 1955-
Date Published / Released
2003, 2017
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till
Person Discussed
Richard Gardner, fl. 1955, Emmett Till, 1941-1955, Clarence Strider, 1904-1970
Topic / Theme
Race relations, Racism, Lynching, Sharecropping, Communities, Trials and litigation, U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-, Emmett Till, Killed, Greenwood, MS, August 28, 1955, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, War and Violence, Post-war Era (1945–1960), African Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
© 2003-2017 WGBH Educational Foundation
Subject
Race relations, Racism, Lynching, Sharecropping, Communities, Trials and litigation
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Race Against Prime Time
directed by David Shulman; produced by David Shulman (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1985), 1 hour
Race Against Prime Time is the only film to scrutinize how television news represents African Americans. This hard-hitting documentary takes us behind the scenes at the newsrooms of the three network affiliates during the Liberty City uprising in Miami which left 18 dead. It provides a classic case study of how th...
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directed by David Shulman; produced by David Shulman (San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1985), 1 hour
Description
Race Against Prime Time is the only film to scrutinize how television news represents African Americans. This hard-hitting documentary takes us behind the scenes at the newsrooms of the three network affiliates during the Liberty City uprising in Miami which left 18 dead. It provides a classic case study of how the news gets made: what we see - and what we don't.
Race Against Prime Time documents how local television newsmen anoint black communi...
Race Against Prime Time is the only film to scrutinize how television news represents African Americans. This hard-hitting documentary takes us behind the scenes at the newsrooms of the three network affiliates during the Liberty City uprising in Miami which left 18 dead. It provides a classic case study of how the news gets made: what we see - and what we don't.
Race Against Prime Time documents how local television newsmen anoint black community spokespersons, characterize whites as victims and blacks as rioters and fail to place the disturbances within the context of and decades of civic neglect. This film reminds us that twenty-five years after the Kerner report decried media prejudice, news reporting remains very much a white view of black realities.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
David Shulman
Author / Creator
David Shulman
Date Published / Released
1985
Publisher
California Newsreel
Topic / Theme
Communities, Black Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012. Used by permission of California Newsreel. All rights reserved.
Subject
Communities
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