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ORDINARY AMERICANS: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - An educational film by the Close Up Foundation (30mins)


FROM SXSW EDUCATION 2019: Henry Louis Gates Jr & Paula Kerger, in conversation with Eric Deggans, discuss the documentary series, Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (60mins). 


ANGELA DAVIS TALK AND INTERVIEW ON CIVIL RIGHTS 1979 - (20mins)

JOHN H WHITE worked for the government photographing Chicago, especially the city`s African American community, for the DOCUMERICA project. His photographs portray the difficult circumstances faced by Chicago`s African American residents in the early 70s, but also capture the "spirit, love, zeal, pride, and hopes of the community."


SHANAE ST LOUIS SINGS SONGS FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT and discusses their evolution over the years from songs of the church - 2014 (50 mins)

ANGELA DAVIS SPEAKING IN 1969: Clip from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. (4 mins)


DR. MILMON HARRISON, African American and African Studies (Uni of California) and singer MAVIS STAPLES discuss the role of music in the 1960s Civil Rights movement- (1hr)


POET AND MUSICIAN GIL SCOTT- HERON TALKS ABOUT WHAT HE MEANT BY "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." - (2 mins)

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - A CULTURAL REVOLUTION - 15 min film from the Ben L Hook Institute.- overview.


1972 TALK - WITH SPEECH BY ANGELA DAVIS - addressing a crowd at California State University on the topics of fascism, inequality and racism...(25 mins)


A BLACK JOURNAL SPECIAL PROGRAMME FROM 1973 - featuring key leaders such as Angela Davis, Kwame Ture, Fannie Lou Hamer and etc. discussing an array of topics that affect the Black community - (1hr30)