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10 Things You Don't Know About, Season 3, Episode 3, Civil Rights
directed by Dominique Anders, fl. 2003-2017 and Stuart Chait, 1980-; presented by Henry Rollins, 1961-; produced by Mary Courtney, fl. 2004-2016 and Henry Rollins, 1961-, Asylum Entertainment; interview by Henry Rollins, 1961-, in 10 Things You Don't Know About, Season 3, Episode 3 (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2014), 43 mins
In "10 Things You Don't Know About," punk rock icon Henry Rollins uncovers crazy twists and tidbits behind the historical tales, figures, and places you only thought you knew. Whether he's analyzing centuries-old documents at the National Archives or exploring the inside of a dead gangster's speakeasy, he's on a m...
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directed by Dominique Anders, fl. 2003-2017 and Stuart Chait, 1980-; presented by Henry Rollins, 1961-; produced by Mary Courtney, fl. 2004-2016 and Henry Rollins, 1961-, Asylum Entertainment; interview by Henry Rollins, 1961-, in 10 Things You Don't Know About, Season 3, Episode 3 (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2014), 43 mins
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In "10 Things You Don't Know About," punk rock icon Henry Rollins uncovers crazy twists and tidbits behind the historical tales, figures, and places you only thought you knew. Whether he's analyzing centuries-old documents at the National Archives or exploring the inside of a dead gangster's speakeasy, he's on a mission to discover the info every casual history fan needs to know.
Henry cracks open the books on one of America's most defining chapt...
In "10 Things You Don't Know About," punk rock icon Henry Rollins uncovers crazy twists and tidbits behind the historical tales, figures, and places you only thought you knew. Whether he's analyzing centuries-old documents at the National Archives or exploring the inside of a dead gangster's speakeasy, he's on a mission to discover the info every casual history fan needs to know.
Henry cracks open the books on one of America's most defining chapters--the Civil Rights movement. On a road not often traveled, he crosses the country in search of the unknown stories that built a generation of heroes.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Mary Courtney, fl. 2004-2016, Henry Rollins, 1961-, Asylum Entertainment
Author / Creator
Dominique Anders, fl. 2003-2017, Stuart Chait, 1980-, Henry Rollins, 1961-
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
10 Things You Don't Know About
Person Discussed
Fred Korematsu, 1919-2005, Clyde Kennard, 1927-1963, Malcolm X, 1925-1965, Nichelle Nichols, 1932-, Claudette Colvin, 1939-, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908-1973
Topic / Theme
Segregation, Racism, Social activism and activists, Civil rights, Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, AL, December 1955, Civil Rights Act Passed, U.S., July 2, 1964, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), Japanese, African Americans, Americans
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Air War In Vietnam
directed by Jonathan Moore, 1923-; produced by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2008), 59 mins
The U.S. air offensive in Vietnam was the most awesome display of aerial firepower yet seen. From the mighty B-52 bombing runs over the North to gunship strikes against Vietcong guerrillas, it spanned almost every type of mission and an extraordinary range of aircraft. This DVD uses the pick of combat footage to t...
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directed by Jonathan Moore, 1923-; produced by Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2008), 59 mins
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The U.S. air offensive in Vietnam was the most awesome display of aerial firepower yet seen. From the mighty B-52 bombing runs over the North to gunship strikes against Vietcong guerrillas, it spanned almost every type of mission and an extraordinary range of aircraft. This DVD uses the pick of combat footage to tell the full story, from the first U.S. adviser missions in the early 1960s to the massive and sustained operations a few years later....
The U.S. air offensive in Vietnam was the most awesome display of aerial firepower yet seen. From the mighty B-52 bombing runs over the North to gunship strikes against Vietcong guerrillas, it spanned almost every type of mission and an extraordinary range of aircraft. This DVD uses the pick of combat footage to tell the full story, from the first U.S. adviser missions in the early 1960s to the massive and sustained operations a few years later. The U.S. footage is mirrored by footage from North Vietnamese sources, which show their anti-aircraft defenses in action and the effects of the U.S. bombing.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jonathan Martin, fl. 1990-2010
Author / Creator
Jonathan Moore, 1923-
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Topic / Theme
Aircraft, Airplanes, War, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, Post-war Era (1945–1960), The Sixties (1960–1974)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008. Used by permission of MVD Entertainment Group
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America and Me
directed by David Bradbury, 1951-; produced by Treena Lenthall, fl. 2007-2018, Frontline Films (Wilsons Creek, New South Wales: Frontline Films, 2017), 1 hour 26 mins
Australian filmmaker David Bradbury has been coming and going to the United States for the last 40 years. A one-man band political activist who always travels with his camera, the twice Academy Award nominated Bradbury was easily able to slip into gear and start filming in eight US cities in the three months lead...
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directed by David Bradbury, 1951-; produced by Treena Lenthall, fl. 2007-2018, Frontline Films (Wilsons Creek, New South Wales: Frontline Films, 2017), 1 hour 26 mins
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Australian filmmaker David Bradbury has been coming and going to the United States for the last 40 years. A one-man band political activist who always travels with his camera, the twice Academy Award nominated Bradbury was easily able to slip into gear and start filming in eight US cities in the three months lead up to the shock election of Donald Trump, 2016. Bradbury was filming the native American Indian protest at Standing Rock when America w...
Australian filmmaker David Bradbury has been coming and going to the United States for the last 40 years. A one-man band political activist who always travels with his camera, the twice Academy Award nominated Bradbury was easily able to slip into gear and start filming in eight US cities in the three months lead up to the shock election of Donald Trump, 2016. Bradbury was filming the native American Indian protest at Standing Rock when America woke to the news. America once was Great. Due largely to the hard work, innovation of its people…and exploiting the resources and labor of other people to its greater gain. America and Me chronicles how the hawks have come home to roost in the nest of America itself, 40 years after Ronald Reagan championed the economic theories of Milton Friedman and his infamous Chicago Boys. America and Me interviews veterans of America’s failed wars to maintain Empire, gets down in the gutter with the homeless to find out what life is like on the streets, speaks to a nun who was violated by the military junta in Guatemala under the directions of a CIA operative, goes to the US/ Mexican border where Trump plans to build the Wall, exposes the deadly connection between CIA HQ Langley, Virginia to CIA spy base Pine Gap in Australia, responsible for the death of hundreds of children and adults from drone attacks….and ends up at Standing Rock where private security guards turned dogs onto non-violent protestors and sprayed mace at point blank range. Bradbury uses telling moments from his earlier films shot on the edge of the American Colossus – Nicaragua No Pasaran, Chile Hasta Cuando? (Pinochet’s dictatorship), Frontline (about the Vietnam war), South of the Border (the New Song movement and radical politics versus dictatorship in Central America) and Public Enemy Number One (about left-wing Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett, the first western journalist into Hiroshima after the bomb who covered the Indochina war from the communist side…), to give context to his critique of the American penchant for Empire.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Treena Lenthall, fl. 2007-2018, Frontline Films
Author / Creator
David Bradbury, 1951-
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Frontline Films
Person Discussed
Donald Trump, 1946-
Topic / Theme
Peace activism and activists, Social activism and activists, American Indians
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Copyright © 2017 Frontline Films
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America in the 20th Century, America in the 20th Century: The Civil Rights Movement
produced by Bent Hannigan, in America in the 20th Century (Chesterton, IN: Media Rich Learning, 2010, originally published 2010), 1 hour 25 mins
This documentary features the Civil Rights Movement in America.
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produced by Bent Hannigan, in America in the 20th Century (Chesterton, IN: Media Rich Learning, 2010, originally published 2010), 1 hour 25 mins
Description
This documentary features the Civil Rights Movement in America.
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Bent Hannigan
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
Media Rich Learning
Series
America in the 20th Century
Person Discussed
Stokely Carmichael, 1941-1998, Theophilus Eugene Connor, 1897-1973, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969, J. Edgar Hoover, 1895-1972, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908-1973, John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968, Rosa Parks, 1913-2005, Strom Thurmond, 1902-2003, Emmett Till, 1941-1955
Topic / Theme
Civil disobedience, Civil rights, Political demonstrations, Equality, Laws and legislation, Lynching, Racism, Riots, Segregation, Social activism and activists, Voting rights, Violence, John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., Assassination, Memphis, TN, April 4, 1968, Medgar Wiley Evers, Assassination, Jackson, MS, June 12, 1963, Montgomery Bus Boyco...
Civil disobedience, Civil rights, Political demonstrations, Equality, Laws and legislation, Lynching, Racism, Riots, Segregation, Social activism and activists, Voting rights, Violence, John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., Assassination, Memphis, TN, April 4, 1968, Medgar Wiley Evers, Assassination, Jackson, MS, June 12, 1963, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, AL, December 1955, Civil Rights Act, U.S., March 1, 1875, Civil Rights Act Passed, U.S., May 6, 1960, Civil Rights Act Passed, U.S., July 2, 1964, Civil Rights Workers Killed, Neshoba County, MS, June 21, 1964, Desegregation of Schools, Little Rock, AR, September 2-September 25, 1957, Freedom Rides, U.S. South, 1961, March from Selma, AL, March 1965, Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963, Emmett Till, Killed, Greenwood, MS, August 28, 1955, Plessy v. Ferguson, Supreme Court Decision, U.S., 1896, Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877, Voting Rights Act Passed, U.S., 1965, Watts Race Riots, Los Angeles, CA, August 13, 1965, American History, World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Reconstruction (1866–1876), The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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America: Promised Land, Part 2
directed by Jamie Crawford, fl. 2006 and Dan Clifton, fl. 2000-2015; produced by Nutopia, in America: Promised Land (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2017), 1 hour 40 mins
America: Promised Land chronicles the massive immigration patterns of ethnic groups to the United States, anchored by interviews with descendants of ancestors and geographical imagery that showcases the history of how America was populated. Sparked by the Industrial Revolution, a wave of migrants flood the United...
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directed by Jamie Crawford, fl. 2006 and Dan Clifton, fl. 2000-2015; produced by Nutopia, in America: Promised Land (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2017), 1 hour 40 mins
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America: Promised Land chronicles the massive immigration patterns of ethnic groups to the United States, anchored by interviews with descendants of ancestors and geographical imagery that showcases the history of how America was populated. Sparked by the Industrial Revolution, a wave of migrants flood the United States. One-third of the entire population of Norway and Sweden migrate to America, transforming the Pacific Northwest.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Nutopia, Corey Johnson, 1961-
Author / Creator
Jamie Crawford, fl. 2006, Dan Clifton, fl. 2000-2015
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
America: Promised Land
Speaker / Narrator
Corey Johnson, 1961-
Topic / Theme
Late 20th Century (1975–2000), The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Reconstruction (1866–1876), Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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America: The Story of Us, Season 1, Episode 11, Superpower
directed by Marion Milne, fl. 1997; produced by Marion Milne, fl. 1997, Nutopia, in America: The Story of Us, Season 1, Episode 11 (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2010), 44 mins
America The Story of Us is an epic 12-hour television event that tells the extraordinary story of how America was invented.
America becomes a global superpower; the economy and population boom. In the jet age and the space age, pioneers conquer new frontiers and run headlong into Cold War.
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directed by Marion Milne, fl. 1997; produced by Marion Milne, fl. 1997, Nutopia, in America: The Story of Us, Season 1, Episode 11 (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2010), 44 mins
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America The Story of Us is an epic 12-hour television event that tells the extraordinary story of how America was invented.
America becomes a global superpower; the economy and population boom. In the jet age and the space age, pioneers conquer new frontiers and run headlong into Cold War.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Marion Milne, fl. 1997, Nutopia, Liev Schreiber, 1967-
Author / Creator
Marion Milne, fl. 1997
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
America: The Story of Us
Speaker / Narrator
Liev Schreiber, 1967-
Topic / Theme
Cold War, 1945-1989, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, U-2 Spy Plane Incident, 1960, War and Violence, Science and Technology, Political and Social Movements, African Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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American Cameraman
directed by Steven Ivcich, fl. 1982 (Chicago, IL: Check The Gate Pictures, 2008), 54 mins
American Cameraman recounts the history of motion picture news, starting with the hand-cranked camera and ending with the dawn of video. From the silent newsreels through the first two decades of television, news cameramen were the prime movers of the news business. This film is the story of Bill Birch, who create...
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directed by Steven Ivcich, fl. 1982 (Chicago, IL: Check The Gate Pictures, 2008), 54 mins
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American Cameraman recounts the history of motion picture news, starting with the hand-cranked camera and ending with the dawn of video. From the silent newsreels through the first two decades of television, news cameramen were the prime movers of the news business. This film is the story of Bill Birch, who created many of the iconic news images of the 20th century. As Bill puts it, "A cameraman was a reporter with a camera instead of a pencil."...
American Cameraman recounts the history of motion picture news, starting with the hand-cranked camera and ending with the dawn of video. From the silent newsreels through the first two decades of television, news cameramen were the prime movers of the news business. This film is the story of Bill Birch, who created many of the iconic news images of the 20th century. As Bill puts it, "A cameraman was a reporter with a camera instead of a pencil."
When Bill was drafted into the Army, he ended up in the Signal Corps under the legendary film director Frank Capra. They were responsible for the much-watched “Why We Fight” series. After the war, Bill went to Movietone News and then to NBC. He reported on the Leopold and Loeb trial, the desegregation of the schools in Little Rock, and Castro's triumphant march into Havana. He covered presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nixon, including John Kennedy's fateful trip to Dallas.
Bill Birch had a flair for being in the right place at the right time.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Steven Ivcich, fl. 1982
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Check The Gate Pictures
Speaker / Narrator
Bill Birch, fl. 1940
Person Discussed
Bill Birch, fl. 1940
Topic / Theme
Life histories, Biographies, Television, Broadcast news, Cameras, War and Violence, Science and Technology, Political and Social Movements, Late 20th Century (1975–2000), The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Depression & World War II (1929–1945)
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Copyright © 2008 by Check the Gate Pictures
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American Experience, Roberto Clemente
directed by Bernardo Ruiz, fl. 1998; produced by Bernardo Ruiz, fl. 1998, in American Experience (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2008), 55 mins
Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. He would die in a tragic plane crash.
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directed by Bernardo Ruiz, fl. 1998; produced by Bernardo Ruiz, fl. 1998, in American Experience (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2008), 55 mins
Description
Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. He would die in a tragic plane crash.
Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Bernardo Ruiz, fl. 1998, Jimmy Smits, 1955-
Author / Creator
Bernardo Ruiz, fl. 1998
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
American Experience
Speaker / Narrator
Jimmy Smits, 1955-
Person Discussed
Roberto Clemente, 1934-1972
Topic / Theme
Baseball, Public life, Puerto Rican people, Race relations, American History, The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Puerto Ricans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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© 2008 WGBH Educational Foundation
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American Experience: Eyes on the Prize, Season 1, Episode 2, Fighting Back (1957–1962)
directed by Judith Vecchione; produced by Judith Vecchione, Blackside (Production company), in American Experience: Eyes on the Prize, Season 1, Episode 2 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1986), 56 mins
States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts — and integr...
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directed by Judith Vecchione; produced by Judith Vecchione, Blackside (Production company), in American Experience: Eyes on the Prize, Season 1, Episode 2 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 1986), 56 mins
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States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts — and integration is carried out.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Judith Vecchione, Blackside (Production company), Julian Bond, 1940-2015
Author / Creator
Judith Vecchione
Date Published / Released
1986
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
American Experience: Eyes on the Prize
Speaker / Narrator
Julian Bond, 1940-2015
Person Discussed
James Howard Meredith, 1933-
Topic / Theme
Civil rights, Social activism and activists, University of Mississippi Riot, September 30, 1962, Desegregation of Schools, Little Rock, AR, September 2-September 25, 1957, Political and Social Movements, The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 1987 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
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American Experience, Season 30, Episode 7, The Chinese Exclusion Act
directed by Ric Burns, 1955- and Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984; produced by Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984, Robin Espinola, fl. 1996, Ric Burns, 1955-, Kathryn Clinard, fl. 2013, Nat Rosa, fl. 2015 and Greg Sorin, fl. 2014, Steeplechase Films, Center for Asian American Media, New-York Historical Society and American Experience Films, in American Experience, Season 30, Episode 7 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2018), 2 hours 40 mins
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.
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directed by Ric Burns, 1955- and Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984; produced by Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984, Robin Espinola, fl. 1996, Ric Burns, 1955-, Kathryn Clinard, fl. 2013, Nat Rosa, fl. 2015 and Greg Sorin, fl. 2014, Steeplechase Films, Center for Asian American Media, New-York Historical Society and American Experience Films, in American Experience, Season 30, Episode 7 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2018), 2 hours 40 mins
Description
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.
Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984, Robin Espinola, fl. 1996, Ric Burns, 1955-, Kathryn Clinard, fl. 2013, Nat Rosa, fl. 2015, Greg Sorin, fl. 2014, Steeplechase Films, Center for Asian American Media, New-York Historical Society, American Experience Films, Hoon Lee, 1973-
Author / Creator
Ric Burns, 1955-, Li-Shin Yu, fl. 1984
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Series
American Experience
Speaker / Narrator
Hoon Lee, 1973-
Topic / Theme
Chinese Exclusion Act Passed, United States, 1882, The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Reconstruction (1866–1876), Civil War (1860–1865), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Chinese, Americans
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