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African Americans in television broadcasting Drama African Americans on television Drama Anteaters Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar) 1895-1972 Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Mass media and race relations United States Drama Sinatra, Frank 1915-1998 United States United States Race relations History 20th century United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.Filter By Subjects
African Americans in television broadcasting Drama African Americans on television Drama Anteaters Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar) 1895-1972 Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Mass media and race relations United States Drama Sinatra, Frank 1915-1998 United States United States Race relations History 20th century United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.Summary: Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SLASummary: In a searing parody of American television and racial attitudes a young African American network executive, under pressure from his white boss, creates a minstrel show, hoping that it will fail and that he will be released from his network contract -- but the TV show becomes both a hit and the subject of much controversy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAMWilson, August.
Summary: Explores the life and career of American playwright August Wilson.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service. 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AUGSummary: "In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIRSummary: The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, but the beginning of a new, crucial chapter. Nowhere was this next battle better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished county with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a county that was 80 percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOWSummary: Examines entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.'s journey to create his own identity, as a black man who embraced Judaism, through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress; a veteran of increasingly outdated show business traditions, he strove to stay relevant, even as he found himself bracketed by the bigotry of white America and the distaste of black America. Features new interviews with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SAMSummary: If one were impoverished and politically voiceless, ACORN hoped to change minds. For 40 years, the community-organizing group sought to empower marginalized communities. It critics, though, believed ACORN exemplified everything wrong with liberal ideals. Fueled by a YouTube video made by two young conservatives who posed as pimp and prostitute in a sting, ACORN's very existence would be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ACOSummary: "Sinatra: all or nothing at all is an up-close and personal examination of the life, music and career of the legendary entertainer. Told in his own words from hours of archived interviews, along with commentary from those closest to him, the documentary weaves the music and images from Sinatra's life together with rarely seen footage of Sinatra's famous 1971 'Retirement' Concert in Los Angeles....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the 20th century, exploring Black baseball as an economic and social pillar of Black communities, and a showcase for some of the greatest athletes to ever play the game, while exposing unintended consequences of the sport's integration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LEASummary: Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 323.1196 MLKCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MLKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MLKSummary: Music has been a constant in human history, an intermingling of voice and instrument that for all its local variation and increasing sophistication nevertheless endured in more or less the same form for centuries. Then came recording--and music was forever transformed. Soundbreaking, an eight-part event television series, traces this ongoing sonic revolution, and explores the nexus of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUSummary: Four acts document distinct perspectives on the pivotal events that preceeded and followed Katrina's passage through New Orleans, a catastrophe during which the divide between race and class lines has never been more pronounced.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD WHEDollar, Sam.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Pub. 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598.7 DOLDollar, Sam.
Summary: Text and color photos present the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and life cycle of anteaters; also includes a glossary and a brief list of related addresses and Web sites.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Steadwell Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.3 DOLDollar, Sam.
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, hunting and eating habits, and life cycle of ocelots.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree Steck-Vaughn 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.75 DOLDollar, Sam.
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, hunting and eating habits, and life cycle of boa constrictors.Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, hunting and eating habits, and life cycle of boa constrictors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree Steck-Vaughn 2001