FAU Libraries Media Center - Videographies, African American Studies

VH 7071 '50's & '60's, The
Summary: Anchored by Peter Jennings of ABC News, volume four, The '50's & '60's, looks at the Happy Daze [1953-1960]: The post-war baby boom, suburban living and Elvis Presley epitomize the contentment of the Eisenhower years. But these were also years marked by the Korean War, rabid McCarthyism, violent civil rights demonstrations, and a frightening escalation in the Cold War. This program probes the tensions between these crosscurrents in American history. 135 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS, U.S. HISTORY, ECONOMICS Series: THE CENTURY AMERICA'S TIME

VH 7073 '80's & '90's, The
Summary: Anchored by Peter Jennings of ABC News, volume 6, "80's & '90's", looks at A New World [1981-1989]: The Reagan era witnessed the unexpected end of the Cold War and a welcome return to a booming domestic economy, but did events unfold too quickly to control? The '90's and Beyond: Examines key moments of the '90's including the Persian Gulf War, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Waco Branch Davidian disaster, the current status of African-Americans and the phenomenon of celebrities created by the media. 090 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: COMPUTERS, U.S. HISTORY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CRIMINOLOGY Series: THE CENTURY AMERICA'S TIME

VH 4814 A. Phillip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom
Summary: Today most Americans don't realize that the man who led the 1963 March on Washington was not Martin Luther King Jr., but a 74 year old African American labor leader. This video begins to restore a brilliant civil rights activist to his place as a key figure in 20th century American history. 086 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, AMERICAN STUDIES, BIOGRAPHY

VH 5137 Abolition: Broken Promises
Summary: For most African-Americans, the end of slavery did little to improve their lives. Turn of the century Dixie, it seems, was a land where white supremacists reigned, both before and after the abolition of slavery. Northerners refused to accept blacks as equals, and in many cases looked the other way while black rights were regularly abused both in the North and South. 050 Min. VIDEO Subject: AFRICAN -AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY

VH 6707 Achebe at 70: Birthday Celebration
Summary: A conversation on writing between Achebe and Toni Morrison that took place at Bard College, New York, and their responses to audience questions. 089 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2356 Across the River
Summary: A five part TV program on heroes in the inner city, shot across the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. Six aspects of inner city development are featured: former drug users and criminals rehabilitate juvenile offenders and prisoners who are fathers, 2 school programs lower the dropout rate drastically by using mentors and job internships; a public housing project reaches out to tenants; businesses lure back the middle class to the inner city destroyed by the crack epidemic of the 1980's, and the redevelopment of a shopping area opens up new businesses, creates services and jobs that aid the community. 058 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: CRIMINOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6804 Adventure
Summary: Ninth of ten episodes tracing the history of Jazz. In the 1950s, post-war prosperity continues but beneath its placid surface is growing demand for civil rights. Louis Armstrong speaks out and Miles Davis becomes an icon for an entire generation of Americans. Saxophonists Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman make their debut and introduce a new jazz movement--the avant garde. 120 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: JAZZ

VH 6919 AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Century
Summary: Professor Cornel West, co-author with Henry Louis Gates of The African-American Century, discusses the book published by Free Press. The book offers a series of profiles of several influential black Americans and focuses on how African-American culture has shaped the American experience over the past century. Following his remarks he answered questions from the audience. 145 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3106 African-American Cultures in the U.S.A.: Part 1
Summary: Discusses the culture and experiences of Black Americans and the structure and composition of the Afro-American community today. 061 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3107 African-American Cultures in the U.S.A.: Part 2
Summary: Follow up to part one discusses African history and religion, images of the African American in the media, academic performance and stereotypes perpetuated in schools. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 8078 African-American English: An Introduction
Summary: African-American English (AAE) is and know the linguistic domains, phonological and grammatical features associated with it. Furthermore, appreciation for the historical origins of AAE will be gained as well as an understanding of regional variations and their primary differences. You'll also be able to identify situational, semantic and pragmatic factors and linguistic constraints which apply to AAE. Dr. Toya Wyatt discusses historical origins, regional variance, and grammatical features of AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES English. Also discusses issues related to the language development of African American children. 064 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4000 African American Gender Roles
Summary: In a classroom lecture, Dr. Polly Radosh describes how gender role patterns established in slavery persisted after slavery was abolished. 063 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0277 African-American Legends & Leaders in American History
Summary: A video retrospective of the contributions of African-Americans who have been honored on postage stamps. Featured are prominent African-Americans who have impacted history, social movements, the arts, literature, music, sports, science, invention and discovery. 012 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6410 African and African American Religions
Summary: Explores the cultural diversity of Africa through its many religions. Discusses how shared elements of various customs serve as unifying threads across tribes, centuries and even continents. Looks at the oral traditions, myths, music and ceremonies, and how AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Christianity, Haiti's Voodoo and Cuba's Santeria have been influenced by Christianity and traditional African religions. 050 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD

VH 1170 After Hours
Summary: Shows a purported late night session at the "After Hours Club" in the 1950's. Coleman Hawkins on sax, Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Milt Hinton on bass, Johnny Guarnieri on piano, and Cozy Cole on drums as they perform "Lover Man", "Taking a Chance on Love", and others. 027 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2392 Against The Odds: Artist of the Harlem Renaissance
Summary: This documentary by Amber Edwards tells the little-known story of a group of black visual artists fighting racial prejudice and discrimination during the vibrant period of creativity in the 1920's and 1930's. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ART, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6043 Against the Tides, The Jones Family (Nova Scotia)
Summary: The population of Nova Scotia ebbed and flowed from the major wars that shaped Canada and the United States. The Jones family had experienced slavery and segregation since southerners from the U.S. settled in Nova Scotia and brought their prejudices with them. 058 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, BIOGRAPHY Series: HYMN TO FREEDOM: THE HISTORY OF BLACKS IN CANADA

VH 1184 Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972)
Summary: An awareness and sense of pride emerged through the struggle of World Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, now by his new Islamic name, Muhammad Ali. No longer content with use of mainstream culture as their standard and rejecting im ages which traditionally stereotyped them as servile and inferior, anew generation of African- Americans began to redefine itself. Propelled by the Black Consciousness Movement, they celebrated black values, culture and their African roots. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE II

VH 0799 Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
Summary: Ain't Scared Of Your Jails chronicles the courage displayed by thousands of young people and college students who joined the ranks of the movement and gave it new direction. In 1960, lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South, many organized by the new, energetic Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1961, on the Freedom Rides, many young people faced violence and defied death threats as they labored to obliterate segregation in interstate bussing. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE

VH 2042 Alex Haley
Summary: This warm portrait of Alex Haley (who died in 1992) shows us the writer who, more than any other, gave whites the shocking insight that blacks had been literally cut off from their own past. That one man's pen could be so powerful is proof that Haley was a first-rate writer. 050 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5074 Algebra I
Summary: Instructor Shahid Muhammad teaches children basic algebra. 114 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: MATHEMATICS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: TEACHING MATH TO BLACK STUDENTS

VH 5075 Algebra II
Summary: Instructor Shahid Muhammad teaches children second year algebra. 116 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: MATHEMATICS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: TEACHING MATH TO BLACK STUDENTS

VH 4809 Alice Walker
Summary: In this profile, Alice Walker shares with us her remarkable spiritual journey from a sharecropping childhood in rural Georgia to the peace and creativity of her present retreat in Northern California. She reads from her poetry and discusses contemporary America with anger and urgency rooted in an abiding optimism. 030 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

VH 3256 Alice Walker: A Portrait in the First Person
Summary: Alice Walker describes how the Civil Rights movement transformed her recurrent theme of a woman's recovery of wholeness through resistance to racism and sexism. 035 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3961 Alice Walker: A Portrait in the First Person
Summary: Alice Walker recalls the defining moments of her childhood and explores the themes that course through her novels and poetry-the devastating effects of violence and abuse on women and children, and the determination to overcome the barriers or face and gender to achieve a life worth living. 028 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2004 Almos' a Man
Summary: David, a black teenage farm worker in the Deep South during the late 1930's persuades his mother to give him part of his earnings for a used handgun. While practicing with it, he accidentally kills a mule. Consequently, his father demeans him in front of the landowner, who demands that he work 25 months to pay for the animal. At nightfall, armed with vague notions of manhood & independence, David retrieves his gun & hops aboard a passing train. 051 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: LITERATURE-I, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION, THE

VH 7594 Althea Gibson
Summary: Follows the life of the first African American woman to win a tennis championship at Wimbledon. Includes an interview with Gibson. 060 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: BIOGRAPHY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2372 Amazing Grace With Bill Moyers
Summary: Across distances of time and culture, "Amazing Grace" has become a courier of the spirit to millions of people. It is one of the most popular and enduring songs in the English language. This feature program explores why this is so. 090 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 7719 America's Dream
Summary: Motion picture presents three adaptations of short stories by African American authors. The stories focus on the struggle of Black men and women in the face of changing attitudes. Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. 087 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, DRAMA

VH 6447 American Education Under Reconstruction/Achievement&Assess..
Summary: A discussion of American educational reform and what lies ahead in the area of school improvement. The panel examines the impact that the reform movement has had on the K-12 educational enterprise, with particular emphasis on students of color. The program also looks at what reform in elementary and secondary education will mean for higher education. 121 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: BEYOND THE DREAM

VH 5764 American Love Story, An, Volume 1
Summary: Episode 1: "Welcome to America". Go full circle with the Wilson-Sims family from Karen and Bill's first encounter to their eldest daughter Cicily's entrance into Colgate College. Episode 2: "A Piece of the Puzzle is Missing". A powerful episode about letting go and holding on. Cicily's plans to spend a semester in Nigeria divide her parents. Her father relishes her opportunity to explore the land of her ancestors; her mother struggles with the distance that will separate them. 100 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AMERICAN LOVE STORY, AN

VH 5765 American Love Story, An, Volume 2
Summary: In the episode "I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up, " Cicily's struggle with her racial identity comes to a head in Africa. The episode "It's Another New Year and I Ain't Gone" deals with Cicily's changed personality after her return from Africa and her subsequent illness. 100 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AMERICAN LOVE STORY, AN

VH 5766 American Love Story, An, Volume 3
Summary: In the episode "Chaney and the Boy, " Bill and Karen's youngest child, Chaney matures and feels the first pangs of love. In "You and Me Against the World" Cicily tries to figure out how to survive in a world defined by categories that don't include her and Karen visits her mother in Florida. 100 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AMERICAN LOVE STORY, AN

VH 5767 American Love Story, An, Volume 4
Summary: In episode 7, "True Love, " Cicily graduates from college and Karen grapples with her recovery and the realization that she'll no longer be able to have children. In "Marion Truth" Bill returns home to Marion, Ohio to confront the past he left many years ago. 100 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AMERICAN LOVE STORY, AN

VH 5768 American Love Story, An, Volume 5
Summary: In "It's My Job" Cicily's days are spent at home looking for a job while Bill goes through his own career crisis. In the 10th and final episode, "We Were Never Ozzie & Harriet, " Bill and Karen attend her high school reunion and face the people who have ostracized them. After three decades, they wonder if things have changed at all. 100 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AMERICAN LOVE STORY, AN

VH 6423 American Paradox: Slavery in the Lower South
Summary: This program takes the viewers behind the "Big House" to the slave quarters where the true degradation of black life was played out. The daily life of house and field slave is explained as the viewers walk through cabins where generations of African-American slaves numbered their days. 025 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6427 American Paradox: Slavery in the Northeast: New England and
Summary: This program explores the struggle for freedom and equality during the revolutionary period and Confederacy when in 1804 every northern state had committed to emancipation in one form or another; the rise and growth of the abolition movement and the growing number of Freedmen. 026 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: U.S. HISTORY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6424 American Paradox: Slavery in Colonial Virginia and Chesapeake
Summary: This program follows every aspect in the development of slavery on the tobacco plantations and in the towns of Virginia and the Chesapeake. 023 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3953 Amiri Baraka
Summary: In this program, Maya Angelou interviews poet, playwright, and political activist Amiri Baraka. Stressing the use of concrete images of time, place, and social condition in his work, Baraka discusses the use of literature as a catalyst for political change. Reading from his poem "Funk Lore, " Baraka explains how he uses jazz and blues rhythms to create metric "melody" within his poems. 028 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0875 Among Brothers-Politics in New Orleans
Summary: Examines the 1986 mayoral election campaigns in New Orleans where the two leading candidates, Sidney Barthelemy and William Jefferson, were both black. Interviews with voters and politicians demonstrate the complexities of politics in black-majority American cities. 058 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2720 And Still I Rise
Summary: Intercuts historical and media images with hard hitting contemporary views of women of African heritage as they struggle to create a new and empowered perspective. Both a celebration and a critique. 030 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1228 Anne Wortham
Summary: Sociologist Anne Wortham talks with Bill Moyers about her controversial views on the Civil Rights movement and affirmative action programs as they discuss race relations in America. 057 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 2554 Archie Shepp: I am jazz...It's my life
Summary: Archie Shepp, whether on tenor or soprano sax or shouting his poems of protest, generates enormous emotions, swings like mad, and expertly builds his solos to an exciting climax while all the time acknowledging en route the debt he owes to Parker and Coltrane. 052 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3087 Arkansas Historical Dance Series
Summary: Includes A Frolic in Territorial Times, Jigging and Clogging, Old Time Square Dancing, Play Party Games, Victorian Ball, Riverboat Days, Modern Western Square Dancing, Black Dancing Traditions. Supplement to GV1624.A8P481995. 056 Min. VIDEO Subject: DANCE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2714 As I Remember It
Summary: This intimate portrait of African American writer Dorothy West explores the forgotten role of women in the Harlem Renaissance. Born at the turn of the century to a prosperous Boston family, West experienced the legendary era first-hand. From the perspective of her 83 years, the still active writer relates her memories of growing up Black, privileged and enthralled by literature. Archival footage and photographs, interviews and 056 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, BIOGRAPHY

VH 2661 At the River I Stand
Summary: At the River I Stand reconstructs the two eventful months in the Spring of 1968 which led to the tragic death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights Movement. As the story begins, Memphis' black community rallies behind a strike by 1300 sanitation workers and their slogan "I am a man." Soon Dr. King joins their struggle to his growing, nation-wide Poor People's Campaign. 059 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 1225 August Wilson
Summary: Playwright August Wilson talks to Bill Moyers about his roots in the Black community, how his plays express the African-American experience, and how the African heritage of Black Americans is both expressed and repressed in American society today. 029 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: THEATRE, SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 3960 August Wilson
Summary: One of America's leading playwrights traces his work back to a trouble d childhood in a Pittsburgh ghetto. His on-going project to write a play of African-American life set in each decade of the 20th century is one of the most ambitious endeavors in American theatrical history. He describes his plays as passing down the wisdom of the African-American community. 022 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: THEATRE, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4812 August Wilson
Summary: This video introduces one of America's most celebrated playwrights, August Wilson. His on-going project to write a play on African American life set in each decade of this century is one of the most ambitious endeavors in the history of American theater. 022 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, WRITERS, THEATRE, DRAMA Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

VH 1959 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The
Summary: This sweeping American saga covers over a century in the life of a black Louisiana woman, from her childhood as a slave in pre-Civil War South to 1962 & the birth of the civil rights movement. Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney & Richard Dysart. Awards: Emmy; Directors Guild of America: Television. 106 Min. VIDEO 1973 Subject: LITERATURE-I, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0797 Awakenings (1954-1956)
Summary: History of the civil rights movement in the United States. Uses archival footage and interviews with participants in the movement. AWAKENINGS focuses on the catalysis events of 1954-56. The Mississippi lynching of 14 year-old Emmett Till led to a widely publicized trial where a courageous black man took the stand and accused two white men of murder. In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to yield her bus seat to a white man. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE

VH 1187 Back to the Movement
Summary: The series concludes with an examination of two cities. In Miami, Florida, viewers witness the destruction of Overtown, a once-thriving community. In 1980, when white police officers were cleared of charges following the beating death of a black businessman, Miami's black community exploded in the largest riot since Detroit, 1967. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE II

VH 5072 Basic Math K-3rd
Summary: Instructor Shahid Muhammad teaches basic math from K through 3rd grade . 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: MATHEMATICS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: TEACHING MATH TO BLACK STUDENTS

VH 3976 Bell Hooks: Cultural Criticism and Transformation
Summary: In part One, Hooks talks about the theoretical foundations that form her work. In part Two, Hooks demonstrates the value of cultural studies in concrete analysis. 066 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1196 Better Angels of Our Nature, The (1865)
Summary: This program begins in the bittersweet aftermath of Lee's surrender and then goes on to narrate the horrendous events of five days later when on April 14th, Lincoln is assassinated. After chronicling Lincoln's poignant funeral, the program recounts the final days of war, the capture of John Wilkes Booth and the fates of the series major characters, The program then considers the consequences and meaning of a war that transformed the country from a collection of states to the nation we are today. 068 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY Series: CIVIL WAR, THE

VH 0224 Beyond The Dream-Black History, (Part 1)
Summary: Live, interactive satellite program featuring prominent scholars, live discussions and prerecorded features on the past present and future of Black participation in American society and culture. Looks at the contribution of Blacks in the fields of education, politics, business and economics, social issues, the military, the arts, entertainment and sports. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0225 Beyond The Dream-Black History, (Part 2)
Summary: Live, interactive satellite program featuring prominent scholars, live discussions and prerecorded features on the past present and future of Black participation in American society and culture. Looks at the contribution of Blacks in the fields of education, politics, business and economics, social issues, the military, the arts, entertainment and sports. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1914 Beyond The Dream-Black History, (Part 3)
Summary: In order to shed light on issues affecting Blacks around the world today, this program poses as a news broadcast made fifty years into the future. Takes a hard look at the political, economic and educational barriers Blacks face as they move beyond the initial dream of Dr. Martin Luther King into the global village of the 21st century. 120 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1915 Beyond The Dream-Black History, (Part 4)
Summary: Recorded off the air, Feb. 5, 1992, via satellite. Participants: Renee Poussaint, Chuck Stone, Alex Haley, Barbara Reynolds, Henry Hampton. 120 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1028 Beyond The Dream II
Summary: Live, interactive satellite program featuring prominent scholars, live discussions and pre-recorded features on the past, present and future of Black participation in American society and culture. Looks at the contribution of Blacks in the fields of education, politics, business and economics, social issues, the military, the arts, entertainment and sports. 120 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY

VH 0707 Bible And The Gun, The/This Magnificent African Cake
Summary: Series title "AFRICA, " VH 705-708. Part 1, "The Bible And The Gun." The slave trade decimated the African population and tore the fabric of society. Then new kinds of interlopers came: explorers, missionaries, and Cecil Rhodes. Part 2, "his Magnificent African Cake." A 30-year "scramble for Africa, " begun in the 1880's, dramatically changed the continent. Nearly all of Africa became subject to colonial rule until WWII. 114 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AFRICA

VH 0781 Black America: Breaking Free
Summary: Documents the history and experiences of Black Americans through historical footage and interviews. Focuses on the civil rights movement, today's urban Black Americans, and Black Americans who have been successful in business and politics. 028 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS, U.S. HISTORY Series: BLACK AMERICA

VH 0782 Black America: The New South
Summary: See VH 779. 028 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: BLACK AMERICA

VH 1693 Black American Literature (Valerie Smith)
Summary: Valerie Smith surveys the development of black American literature from the 1890's to the 1930's, examining the achievements of the authors who consolidated the Afro-American literary tradition at the turn of the century (notably Charles Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar), the major poets and novelists of the Harlem Renaissance (notably Nellie Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston), who provide a unique, double perspective on racial and sexual 025 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2449 Black Artists of the Silver Screen, Vol.2
Summary: Minnie the Moocher (4 min.): Cab Calloway and his orchestra -- Jittering Jitterbugs (12 min.): Hamtree Harrington, Lee Norman's orchestra, Arthur White's Lindy Hoppers-- Heavenly Choir (10 min.): I'm Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven; Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen; Cross the River Jordan -- St, Louis Blues (17 min.): Bessie Smith -- Showtime at the Apollo (30 min.): Willie Bryant, Mantan Moreland, Lionel Hampton and his orchestra, Delta Rhythm Boys, Martha Davis, Nipsey Russell, Nat King Cole Trio -- Hi De Ho (10 min.): Cab Calloway. Rarely seen musical excerpts of Afro-American films from the 1920s to the 1950s. 075 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5663 Black Celebration
Summary: News footage of riots in Watts, Boston and Newark from Image, Universal Newsreel collection and National Archives. 017 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5142 Black Communities after the Civil War
Summary: Between 1850 and 1920, twenty seven black towns sprung up in northeast Oklahoma. Historians trace the westward migration of former slaves to Oklahoma after the Civil War, and examine their lives there as successful farmers and business owners. The focus is on the towns of Clearview and Boley, where blacks operated thriving cotton growing operations until 1907, when the most restrictive Jim Crow laws in the nation were passed. 017 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2849 Black Conservatives
Summary: Black conservatives believe that liberals, both black and white, are doing the cause of African Americans more harm than good. In this specially adapted Phil Donahue program, Armstrong Williams, Kevin Pritchett, Phyllis Berry Meyers, and Dr. Khalid Al-Mansor say that the existing welfare system has become just another form of slavery; that blacks should strive for self-empowerment and not depend on the Democratic Party, which takes their votes for granted. 028 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 8107 Black English As An American Dialect
Summary: Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University, John Rickford, presents a clarification of the issues surrounding "ebonics", and the controversy which currently surrounds language in general. 030 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, LANGUAGE SKILLS

VH 1438 Black Female Authors & Playwrights
Summary: Hosted by Phil Donahue. Features Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Michelle Wallace & Angela Davis. 030 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3459 Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed
Summary: Matthew Henson and David Hale Williams are not names that most Americans can easily identify. Yet, both made significant contributions to American history and culture. Bill Cosby examines the manner in which American historians have tended to ignore, downplay or improperly document several significant achievements by black Americans. Cosby gives evidence of negative media images in newsreels and films such "BIRTH OF A NATION", that have conspired to downgrade interest in black culture and black historical achievements. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1458 Black Influence in the Recording Industry
Summary: Demonstrates the collaborative effort required to produce a contemporary recording and reviews the history of the black experience in the recording industry, identifying significant individuals and trends that have shaped that experience. Features George Benson and Quincy Jones. 029 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: FROM JUMPSTREET

VH 4075 Black Is...Black Ain't
Summary: Weaves together the testimony of those whose complexion, class, gender, speech or sexuality has made them feel "too black" or "not black enough." Scholars and artists recall their own struggles to discover a more inclusive definition of "blackness." 086 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2617 Black Jazz and Blues
Summary: (1929, 1935, 1945). Three all-black shorts with Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Louis Jordan, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. 044 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: JAZZ, MUSICAL, DANCE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3644 Black Like Me
Summary: This is the gripping, real life story of journalist John Howard Griffin, a white man who, during the racial unrest of the 1950's, dyed his skin black and traveled throughout the deep South. The terror and humiliation he suffered became a series of controversial articles (and later a best seller) that focused attention on the racist atrocities this nation chose to ignore. Director: Carl Lerner. 107 Min. VIDEO 1964 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1455 Black Music in Theatre and Film
Summary: Explores the role of music in the presentation and perception of blacks in theatre and film and identifies black Americans who have been active in the growth of theatre and film music. Features L. O. Sloane's Three Black and Three White Refined Jubilee Minstrels and Pearl Bailey. 029 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: FROM JUMPSTREET

VH 3979 Black on White / Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Summary: 5."Black on White" examines Black English from its beginnings with American slaves to today's black "rap." 6. "Pioneers! O Pioneers! evokes the spirit of American English as it evolved from 1776 to 1920's. 116 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY, COMMUNICATION Series: STORY OF ENGLISH, THE

VH 4842 Black Panther and San Francisco State: On Strike
Summary: Interviews with the founding members of the Black Panthers, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale document the footage of the organization's meetings and marches which reveal a pragmatic and still relevant outline for the African American communities' self-determination and development. Recounted is the six month long strike students of color led at San Francisco State to make their university's curriculum and admissions policies more relevant, which succeeded in creating the country's first Ethnic Studies department. 035 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY

VH 0948 Black Panthers
Summary: A documentary film of the "Free Huey Newton" rally in California. Huey Newton is interviewed in the Alameda County Jail. 053 Min. VIDEO 1968 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 0891 Black Power
Summary: Prominent Afro-Americans discuss their political and social achievements. 058 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 4840 Black Press, The: Soldiers without Swords
Summary: This program forms part of the Communications Excellence to Black Audiences Award collection. After providing background on the role of Black press in the past, host Maureen Bunyan speaks with several African American press members. 085 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, U.S. HISTORY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1592 Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Summary: Narrated by Ossie Davis. Exciting excerpts from the black film industry in America in this history of a segregated art form. 052 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4839 Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
Summary: Originally released as a motion picture in 1978. This program recaptures the birth of a new theatre from the Civil Rights activism of the 1950's, '60's, and '70's. It presents an encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions, and events. Clips include the first all-black production of Genet's "The Blacks" along with "A Raisin in the Sun, " "Black Girl, " etc... 109 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: THEATRE, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5542 Black to the Promised Land
Summary: A group of problem students from the Street Academy High School of Brooklyn are taken on a trip to Israel. They experience the everyday life of the Jewish community in a kibbutz. Both Jewish and Black youngsters seem surprised in finding that love, respect and friendship can grow in spite of ethnic differences and the color of their skin. 098 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 7905 Black Wax
Summary: A documentary film featuring Gil Scott-Heron, the socially conscious musician. Throughout, the music of Scott-Heron and the Midnight Band is a supple, seductive fusion of soul, funk, jazz, pop, and Afro-ethnic roots. 079 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3958 Black, White and Angry
Summary: Few other issues in American life provoke the kind of discussion and emotion that race does, especially the relationship between blacks and whites. Despite tremendous strides, there is little doubt that deep-seated emotions between blacks and whites still divide Americans. This NBC News program examines the following topics: blacks and whites at work; blacks and whites in their communities and the question of separate worlds; myths about blacks and whites; the role politics and politicians play in issues affecting blacks and whites; and what the future holds for the already delicate relationships between blacks and whites in America. 077 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 2068 Black Women Writers
Summary: African-American men have accused African-American women writers of achieving success by criticizing them. In this specially adapted Phil Donahue program, Alice Walker, Michelle Wallace, Ntosake Shange, Angela Davis, and Maya Angelou argue that this criticism reflects the men's poor self-image. 028 Min. VIDEO Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4072 Blacks & Jews
Summary: Early in the 20th century Black and Jewish Americans joined forces against bigotry and for civil rights but in the late 1960's each group turned inward and the coalition fell apart. This film examines the history of this collaboration and recent racial conflicts between Afro-Americans and Jews and attempts at understanding and reconciliation, with particular emphasis on events In New York City and Oakland, California. 085 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1450 Blues: Country to City
Summary: Distinguishes between country and urban blues, demonstrating musical characteristics of each style and showing the settings in which they emerged. A performance by guests Willie Dixon and his Chicago Blues All-stars illustrates the lyrical and instrumental nature of urban blues. An example of country blues is given by Brownine McGhee and Sonny Terry. Also discusses the influence of early blues on young white musicians. 029 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: FROM JUMPSTREET

VH 6298 Bluesland, A Portrait in American Music
Summary: This video explores the blues, with all its poetic irony and sly humor, its eroticism and timeless power. It traces its roots from the beginning of the 20th Century through the Mississippi Delta to Louisiana, Texas, Kansas City and Chicago. It includes music by: Son House, Leadbelly, Big Bill Broonzy, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Jimmy Rushing, T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Dinah Washington and many others. 085 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2366 Body and Soul with Paul Robeson
Summary: The first screen appearance of Paul Robeson has him cast in a dual role as a conniving preacher and his good brother. The preacher preys on the heroine, making her life a misery. Objections by censors to the preacher's character caused him to be redeemed and become worthy of the heroine's love Director: Oscar Micheaux. 080 Min. VIDEO 1924 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2966 Booker T. Washington
Summary: An outstanding collection of video biographies on some of the most influential African-Americans in history based on Chelsea House Publishers critically acclaimed "Black Americans of Achievement" series of books, drawing from the expertise of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University. 030 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, BIOGRAPHY Series: BLACK AMERICANS OF ACHIEVEMENT VIDEO COLLECTION, THE

VH 0888 Booker T. Washington-The Life & The Legacy
Summary: Traces the life of Booker T. Washington with an emphasis on his stewardship of Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama. Historic recreations reveal the turning points of Washington's educational and political career. 032 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, BIOGRAPHY

VH 0675 Born Musicians/On the Battlefield
Summary: A series of television films describing the roots of popular music forged in the Americas from the union of the Old World music of Africa and Europe. 121 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: REPERCUSSIONS: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES MUSIC

VH 0802 Bridge to Freedom
Summary: In the final episode, BRIDGE TO FREEDOM, the lessons of a decade are brought to bear in the climactic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, when thousands joined together to march fifty miles for freedom. During the drive to make voting rights a national issue, strategic and ideological differences began to surface between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s SCLC and the younger activists of SNCC. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE

VH 5053 Brother From Another Planet, The
Summary: On the run from alien officers an extraterrestrial crash lands his space ship in New York and loses in himself in Harlem. He makes fast friends in the hood and uses his super powers to help dethrone a drug kingpin. Directed by: John Sayles. 108 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 8049 Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Summary: Bayard Rustin was a key figure in the civil rights movement for over 40 years. One of the first "freedom riders, " an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the March on Washington, intelligent, gregarious and charismatic, Bayard Rustin was denied his place in the limelight for one reason -- he was also gay. He brought non-violent resistance to a new level in the American Civil Rights movement. The film captures Rustin's commitment to justice and human rights, his brilliant intellect and charismatic personality, as well as the public scorn he faced from both black and white because of his openness about his sexual orientation. Presents a fascinating look at the role race, politics, and orientation play in American radicalism. 084 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 4919 Brotherly Love
Summary: In Philadelphia, during the first 50 years of the new nation, freedmen and fugitive slaves push the country to live up to the promises made in its Constitution. But with the invention of the cotton gin, slavery expands into America's western frontier, and a revolution in Haiti inspires slave rebellions throughout the southern United States. 090 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY Series: AFRICANS IN AMERICA

VH 1798 Buck and The Preacher
Summary: Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Harry Belafonte, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Nina Talbot, John Kelly & Tony Brubaker. Directed by Sidney Poitier. A group of recently freed slaves are the target of resentful vigilante nightraiders as the ex-slaves make their way west. 102 Min. VIDEO 1971 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 8056 Buffalo Soldiers
Summary: Fact based story about the all-black U.S. Cavalry Troop H which protected the Western territories in post Civil War times. Directed by Charles Haid. 095 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4663 Bush Mama
Summary: Focuses on Dorothy, who lives in Watts, CA trying to raise her daughter while her man is in jail. After a series of devastating confrontations with the system, she is pushed over the line. Director: Haile Gerima. 098 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1799 Cabin in the Sky
Summary: Petunia Jackson, a poor but devout woman burdened with a shiftless husband called Little Joe. When Little Joe is seriously wounded in a fight and seems about to die, the forces of heaven and hell begin a battle for his soul. Petunia finds that she needs more than a prayer to keep her beloved Joe out of the Devil's clutches. Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Kenneth Spencer, John W. Sublett, & Oscar Polk. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. 099 Min. VIDEO 1943 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0738 Call of the Jitterbug, The
Summary: Swinging musicians from the 1930's individually argue the derivation of the Jitterbug from the Lindy Hop. 035 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: DANCE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2389 Can We All Get Along?
Summary: Prompted by the events in Los Angeles following the Rodney King verdict, McNeil/Lehrer News Hour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault conducted a series of interviews with community leaders, journalists, politicians, educators and other experts on race relations in America. They give their views on how and why racial tensions exist and continue to grow, and what steps we need to take to maintain a positive racial climate. 120 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: MACNEIL/LEHRER NEWSHOUR

VH 0706 Caravans of Gold/Kings and Cities
Summary: Series title "AFRICA, " VH 705-708. Part 1, Caravans of Gold. Basil Davidson traces the roots of the medieval gold trade which reached from Africa to India, China, and Italy and examines its influence on the African continent. Part 2, Kings and Cities. Kano, Nigeria, is one example of an African kingdom. There, a king still holds court in his 15th-century palace, and ancient rituals continue to command the respect of the people. 114 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AFRICA

VH 7591 Caryl Phillips
Summary: Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and has published five works of fiction which present different perspectives of the African diaspora and explore the anatomy of slavery with stylistic virtuosity and memorable characters who tell the stories of those who survived slavery. He reads from his work "Crossing the River", followed by an interview where he discusses characterization, belonging to two cultures, and modern English literature by authors from former British colonies. Interview by Pico Iyer. 060 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CARIBBEAN STUDIES, WRITERS

VH 1188 Cause, The (1861)
Summary: This landmark documentary film series movingly and vividly presents the entire sweep of the war, from the battlefields to the home fronts, from the politicians and generals to the enlisted men and their families, from the causes of the war and the opening guns at Sumter to the stillness at Appomattox, Lincoln's assassination and beyond. 099 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY Series: CIVIL WAR, THE

VH 6443 Celebration of Black History: Blacks in Politics, A...
Summary: Teleconference focusing on Black political power and participation at the local, state, and federal levels. Includes profiles of Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Congressman Kweisi Mfume. Also includes discussion on building coalitions with other political groups to pursue common interests. 120 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: BEYOND THE DREAM

VH 6442 Celebration of Black History: The Writers, Stories, Legacy
Summary: A live, interactive satellite video conference featuring prominent African American writers. Discusses the impact of African American literature as it pertains to American culture and life. Focuses on the history of African and African American storytelling, the resurgence of Black authors and their works, and pays a tribute to Alex Haley and his contributions to American literature. 115 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: BEYOND THE DREAM

VH 6445 Beyond The Dream VIII: A Celebration Of Black History: Successful Blacks In The American Business & Entrepreneurial World.
Summary: Examines the future of Black businesses and today's business climate, explores the ways of operating a successful business, looks at the impact of affirmative action and addresses the role of education in preparing the nation's next generation of Black entrepreneurs and CEOs. 120 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: BEYOND THE DREAM

VH 4425 Century of Black Cinema, A Part 1
Summary: This is a special celebrating the finest Afro-American entertainers ever to grace the silver screen. This program takes you on a journey through the careers of the fortunate, the unfortunate, the ground breakers, the spectacular, the musical, and the comical performers who have inspired millions since the first cameras rolled. 051 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4426 Century of Black Cinema, A Part 2
Summary: This is a special celebrating the finest Afro-American entertainers ever to grace the silver screen. This program takes you on a journey through the careers of the fortunate, the unfortunate, the ground breakers, the spectacular, the musical, and the comical performers who have inspired millions of people since the cameras have rolled. 052 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4810 Charles Johnson
Summary: In this video Johnson describes his over-arching literary objective: to explore classic metaphysical questions from East and West against the backdrop of African American life and history. 027 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, WRITERS Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

VH 2574 Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash, The
Summary: Interview with Dash, a New York filmmaker. It includes excerpts from her films. 030 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3518 Circle of Recovery
Summary: Presents a portrait of seven AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES men who overcame drug addiction to become symbols of hope for their community. Features interviews with Bill Moyers. 058 Min. VIDEO Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0779 Civil Rights Movement, The
Summary: Documents the history and experiences of Black Americans through historical footage and interviews. Focuses on the Civil Rights movement, today's urban Black Americans, and Black Americans who have been successful in business and politics. 030 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: BLACK AMERICA

VH 4700 Clockers
Summary: A "clocker" is a 24 hour drug dealer, and Strike is the hardest working one on the streets. But for Strike, time is running out. When the local drug kingpin tips Strike off about an opportunity for advancement, a rival dealer ends up dead, and Strike suddenly finds himself caught between two homicide detectives. Directed by Spike Lee. 129 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1747 Color Adjustment
Summary: In "Color Adjustment" Marlon Riggs brings his landmark study of prejudice and perception begun in Ethnic Notions into the Television Age. From "Amos 'n Andy" to "The Cosby Show", "Color Adjustment" traces over forty years of turbulent race relations through the lens of prime time entertainment. 087 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 8165 Compensation
Summary: The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900's parallels with another living in the 1990's. It presents a love story between a deaf woman and a hearing man. Set in Chicago, the couple struggles with discrimination, disability and racism. This mostly silent film uses note cards and old photographs to illustrate the period in which the film is cast. African Americans from the south hoping for a better life, soon find that discrimination and segregation in all its forms also exist in Chicago. 098 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: LANGUAGE SKILLS, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6931 Conversation Among Great African Americans, A
Summary: Participants, portraying historical African American figures, conduct a conversation about African American history in order to provide insight into the current status of African Americans and the challenges of the 21st century. 088 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2009 D. P.
Summary: Stan Shaw, Rosemary Leach & Julius Gordon. Against the ravaged background of post-World War II Germany, a black orphan encounters a black soldier who in the only other black he has ever seen. First aired on PBS. 060 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: LITERATURE-I, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION, THE

VH 1768 Dance Black America
Summary: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Staff, Garth Fagan's Bucket Dance Theatre Staff & Jazzy Double Dutch Jumpers. Narrated by Geoffrey Holder. 087 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DANCE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1767 Dance Theater of Harlem
Summary: The influential company displays its energy, in four signature pieces: "Fall River Legend, " "Troy Game, " "The Beloved, " & " John Henry." 120 Min. VIDEO Subject: DANCE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1453 Dance to the Music
Summary: Demonstrates the dynamic relationship between dance and music in African and Afro-American culture. Shows the retention of African movements in Afro-American dance forms, and important styles and innovators in the development of Afro-American dance. Features Rod Rodgers and his dance troupe and Honi Coles. 029 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: FROM JUMPSTREET

VH 0328 Dancing On The Edge, Volume 1
Summary: Subtitled "Highlights From The ADF Archives." Paul Taylor, Cloven Kingdom 1991. Jin Xing, Crying Dragon 1989. Dayton Contemporary Dance Co., Road of The Phoebe Snow 1991. Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane And Co., D-Man in the Waters 1991. Reijo Kela, Everyman 1991. Claude Brumachon, Le Piedestal des Vierges 1988. Ballet Du Lac Tumba, Iyaya 1991. Dates given are for performance season at ADF. 041 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: DANCE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0329 Dancing On The Edge, Volume 2
Summary: Subtitled "Highlights From The ADF Archives." Erick Hawkins, Summer Clouds People, 1988. Sukarji Sriman, The Circle of Bliss, 1991. Guangdong Modern Dance Co., Square Bottom Boat and Situation 1991. Pilobolus, Molly's Not Dead and Day Two 1988. Molissa Fenley, State of Darkness 1988. Sutki, Ahnung 1988. Chuck Davis' African American Dance Ensemble, Lisanga Na Mabina Ya Mama Africa 1991. 044 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: DANCE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3275 Dark Passages
Summary: Shot on location in West Africa and in Virginia, DARK PASSAGES tells the story of impact of the Atlantic slave trade. Using a mixture of interviews, slave narratives, and dramatization, this program takes the viewer from the "Door of No Return" in the House of Slaves on Goree Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, to the village of Jufurreh on the Gambia River. Jufurreh is the ancestral home of Alex Haley of "Roots" fame. Narrated by Tanya Hart. 060 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2285 Daughters of the Dust
Summary: Tells the story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North at the dawn of the 20th century. Using this simple tale, the film brings to life the changing values, conflicts and struggles that confront every family as they leave their homeland for the promise of a new and better future. Director: Julie Dash. 113 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3200 Deadly Deception, The
Summary: This program investigates one of the most notorious medical experiments in American history: the Tuskeegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. African American men in Macon County, Alabama believed they were receiving free treatment for syphilis; they were, instead, given medicines that were worthless against the disease. The experiment continued from 1932 until 1972 and was periodically written up in mainstream medical journals. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2096 Death of a Prophet
Summary: Morgan Freeman, Yolanda King. Music composed and performed by Max Roach. Ossie Davis narrates. This is the story of a 20th century prophet, Malcolm X, a man with the rare ability to change men's lives with a quiet confidence. The film brilliantly explores some of the many questions still unanswered to this day. Director: Woodie King, Jr. 060 Min. VIDEO Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, COMMUNICATION

VH 6802 Dedicated to Chaos
Summary: Seventh of ten episodes tracing the history of Jazz. This video is set in the early 1940s. When America enters World War II in 1941, jazz music goes to war too, and swing becomes a symbol of democracy. Glen Miller and Artie Shaw take their music to the men and women of the armed forces overseas. 120 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: JAZZ

VH 3214 Democracy in a Different Voice with Lani Guinier
Summary: An Illustrated lecture in 6 parts: Silenced, the tyranny of the majority, taking turns, districts of the mind, democracy in a different voice, speaking out. Outlining her real views on race and diversity, she invites us into a meaningful dialogue on the meaning of democracy in a diverse society. She ask us to consider, in the tradition of James Madison, how to make democracy work for all by avoiding the "tyranny of the majority." 037 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4701 Devil in a Blue Dress
Summary: Washington stars as Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a decorated war hero who returns home to the segregation of post-war America. Forced to accept an under the table job finding a missing socialite, Easy is caught between the white power elite and the vibrant black community of Central Avenue. And as soon as Easy and his trigger happy friend Mouse find the mysterious Daphine Monert trouble follows. Directed by: Carl Franklin. 101 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3059 Didn't We Ramble On - The Black Marching Band
Summary: Traces the evolution of the black marching band from fourteenth century West Africa to present-day bands. Narrated by Dizzy Gillespie, this film features performances of a West African processional, New Orleans jazz funeral, and the Florida A&M Marching Band along with archival music and stills. 014 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0705 Different But Equal/Mastering A Continent
Summary: Series title "AFRICA, " VH 705-708. Part 1, "Different But Equal." For centuries Africa was ravaged by the slave trade, which has distorted our view of its people. Basil Davidson shows that Africa gave rise to some of the world's greatest civilizations. Part 2, "Mastering a Continent." Looking closely at three different communities, Davidson examines the way African peoples carve out an existence in an often hostile environment. 114 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AFRICA

VH 2790 Digging for Slaves: The Excavation of American Slave Sites
Summary: Between the 16th and 19th centuries, some ten million Africans were kidnaped and transported as slaves to America. Now archaeologists are digging up American slave sites for the first time, unearthing the realities of slave life and discovering the contributions of enslaved Africans to American society. This program provides many fascinating and surprising details at excavations of 18th-century slave quarters on Middleton Plantation near Charleston. 050 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1896 Diversity in Higher Education: Can We Meet the Challenge?
Summary: Brings together nationally recognized experts who address the critical issues which determine the success or failure of achieving diversity in higher education. A solution oriented video conference which provides an open forum for students, faculty, administrators and community members to engage in a constructive dialogue. 120 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3763 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective
Summary: Offers an examination of Dr. King's extraordinary life. Using rare an d largely unseen film footage and photographs, the film explores how Dr. King's ideas, thoughts, and causes evolved in the face of the rapidly changing climate of the Civil Rights Movement. 080 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1469 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Part 1)
Summary: Historical overview of the struggle for racial equality in America. Focuses on the role of Martin Luther King, Jr., and includes footage of major events in the civil rights movement. Part 1 of 2. 025 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 1470 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Part 2)
Summary: Historical overview of the struggle for racial equality in America. Focuses on the role of Martin Luther King, Jr., and includes footage of major events in the civil rights movement. Part 2 of 2. 025 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 3685 Dream Deferred, A
Summary: A rural people becomes an urban one. Cultural and political gains are offset by overcrowding and increasing ghettoization of African-Americans, as Northern politicians ignore the ticking time bomb of resentment. A time bomb that would explode in the Sixties. 090 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: PROMISED LAND, THE

VH 1771 Drum
Summary: Based on a novel by Kyle Onstott. This is a sexy sequel to "Mandingo" in which the plantation owner & his daughter cavort with their slaves. Drum is a rebellious mulatto slave who is powerful both as a fighter & lover. Director: Steve Carver. 102 Min. VIDEO 1976 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0677 Drums of Dagbon, The / Caribbean Crucible
Summary: A series of television films describing the roots of popular music forged in the Americas from the union of the Old World music of Africa and Europe. 120 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: REPERCUSSIONS: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC

VH 6428 Duke Ellington's Washington: The Rise and Fall, and Rebirth
Summary: Profiles the Washington, D.C. African-American community in the early years of the 20th century, with some biographical information about Duke Ellington. 057 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, BIOGRAPHY

VH 2370 Duke Is Tops
Summary: Lena Horne plays a successful singer who very nearly loses her man because his career as a producer is on the skids. Lena Horne, Ralph Cooper, Lawrence Criner, Monte Hawley, Vernon McCalla, Edward Thompson. Director: William Nolte. 072 Min. VIDEO 1938 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1452 Early Jazz
Summary: Illustrates the musical characteristics of ragtime and early jazz, their relationship and the music cultures form which they evolved. Features Alvin Alcorn and Roy Eldridge. 029 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: FROM JUMPSTREET

VH 6279 Eighth Inning, The: A Whole New Ballgame, 1960-1970
Summary: Television beams baseball nationwide in the turbulent sixties. The players finally succeed in forming a labor union. Expansion, race changes and new stadiums promise to make the sport "A Whole New Ballgame." 116 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SPORTS, U.S. HISTORY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: BASEBALL

VH 5703 Elders
Summary: Introduces readers to the Black poets who laid the groundwork for today's Black poetry renaissance. Includes poetry from Samuel W. Allen, Mari Evans, Naomi Long Madgett, Alvin Aubert and Pinkie Gordon Lane. 114 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, WRITERS Series: FURIOUS FLOWER: AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY 1960 - 1995

VH 0737 Electric Boogie
Summary: Focuses on four teenagers, two Black and two Puerto Rican, who perform their pulsating, gyrating dance routines on the streets of New York City's South Bronx. Shows the group, which calls itself the Electric Boogie Boys, practicing, playing basketball, relaxing at home, and competing in a local dance contest. Contrasts the youngster's vitality, ambition, and talent with the grimness of their city surroundings. 030 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: DRAMA, DANCE, SOCIOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2965 Elijah Muhammad
Summary: Series presents twelve new profiles on influential African Americans. Contains biographical material, interviews with experts archival footage, and period music. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, BIOGRAPHY Series: BLACK AMERICANS OF ACHIEVEMENT VIDEO COLLECTION II, THE

VH 3571 End of Empires, The
Summary: This program looks at the end of European imperialism and colonial rule in Asia and Africa. Looking back at the splendor of the European empires in their heyday, the program explains how independence movements gathered strength to eventually overthrow the colonial powers, and the severe political and economic difficulties that often accompanied independence. 048 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, EUROPEAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, ASIAN STUDIES Series: HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

VH 0183 Ethnic Notions
Summary: Takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history. It traces for the first time the evolution of the deeply rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice. Through these images we can begin to understand the evolution of racial consciousness in America. 058 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, COMMUNICATION

VH 4838 Eve's Bayou
Summary: Summer heats up in rural Louisiana as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they've kept and the betrayals they've endured. Directed by : Kasi Lemmons. 108 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1748 Family Across the Sea
Summary: Shows how scholars have uncovered the remarkable connections between the Gullah people of South Carolina and the people of Sierra Leone. Documents how the Gullahs incorporated many aspects of African culture in the daily life of the plantations. 056 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3506 Family Values Reconsidered: Andrew Billingsley
Summary: Plenary speech presented November 12, 1993 in Baltimore, Md. at the 1993 annual conference of the National Council on Family relations. Billingsley follows the theme of his book "Climbing Jacob's Ladder" and discusses how the basic values that enabled African American families to survive slavery and the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions are being severely tested in the new information Age. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3194 Fateful Decade: From Little Rock to the Civil Rights Bill, The
Summary: First there was the law, and then there was enforcement of the law. This program begins at Little Rock's Central High School and follows the civil rights movement acceleration: marches, clashed with the police, the jailing of demonstrators, the murders of Medger Evers, and the bombing of the Baptist church in Birmingham, sit-ins and protest, the Montgomery march, the Mississippi Freedom March, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speeches and his funeral. 027 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, AMERICAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 6276 Fifth Inning, The: Shadow Ball, 1930-1940
Summary: The Great Depression looms over America, and baseball struggles to survive. America's game has another struggle too: racial segregation. Confined to the Negro League are great stars like Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige. Countless talents are excluded from baseball's major leagues. 126 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SPORTS, U.S. HISTORY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: BASEBALL

VH 8379 Fight For Freedom: The Inspiring Story Of African American..
Summary: Examines the role of some 200, 000 African American soldiers in the last two years of the Civil War. 037 Min. VIDEO 2003 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY

VH 0798 Fighting Back (1957-1962)
Summary: Follows the struggle for equality from the schoolroom to the courtroom and back as blacks reject the existing system of "separate but equal" education. In 1954, the Supreme Court also rejects the system in its historic Brown vs. Board of education decision. The legal battle won, in 1957 nine black teenagers dare to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. In 1962, a resolute James Meredith enrolls at The University of Mississippi. 060 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE

VH 6272 First Inning, The: Our Game, 1840s-1900
Summary: Tells the story of the origins of the game as a barehanded game played by men and boys in cities, usually in the vicinity of a saloon. Meet the first baseball magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, explore the game's first gambling scandal, and see the attempts by women to play the game in 1860's. 115 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SPORTS, U.S. HISTORY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: BASEBALL

VH 5363 First Person Singular: John Hope Franklin
Summary: Explores the life and work of John Hope Franklin, distinguished American historian known for contributions both as a scholar and a civil rights activist. Franklin reminisces about his personal and professional life and examines some of the major events of 20th century African American history, many of which he lived through and participated in. 060 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3202 Flight To Freedom: The Underground Railroad
Summary: Between 1790 and 1860, thousands of slaves fled the south for liberation on the "Underground Railroad", a system of invisible tracks and anonymous conductors who gave shelter to fugitive slaves. Through interviews with national experts, and examination of archival records and artifacts, this program provides an overview of the underground movement. 120 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6542 Flyers in Search of a Dream
Summary: Documents America's pioneering Black aviators in the 1920s and 1930s who overcame social pressures to gain the right to fly. Contains rare archival footage, photographs and dramatic vignettes of Bessie Coleman, William J. Powell, Sr, Herbert Julian, and James Herman Banning. 058 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4845 For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker
Summary: For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker gives the long overdo recognition to one of the seminal figures of American literature. "For My People" combines conversations with Margaret Walker, commentary from leading scholars and from her poetry to make a powerful argument for the centrality of her work to 20th century American literature. Directed by: Judith McCray. 027 Min. VIDEO Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1190 Forever Free (1862)
Summary: This episode charts the dramatic events that led to Lincoln's decision to set the slaves free. Convinced by July, 1862 that emancipation was morally and militarily crucial to the future of the Union, Lincoln must wait for a victory to issue his proclamation. But there is no Union victory to be had until Antietam, the bloodiest day of the war, followed shortly by the brightest, the emancipation of the slaves. 076 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY Series: CIVIL WAR, THE

VH 7326 Forum on African American Issues Since Sept. 11, Part 2
Summary: Afternoon session, Part 2 of 2. 100 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 7325 Forum on African American Issues Since Sept. 11, Pt. 1
Summary: Afternoon session, Part 1 of 2. 092 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 7324 Forum on African American Issues Since Sept. 11, Pt. 2
Summary: Morning Session, Part 2 of 2. 123 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 7323 Forum on African American Issues Since September 11, Pt. 1
Summary: In a forum titled "Where Do We Go From Here?: Chaos or Community? Black America's Vision for Healing, Harmony, and Higher Ground, " black leaders talked about African American issues since the Sept. 11 attack. Morning Session, Part 1 of 2. 121 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4648 Four Little Girls
Summary: On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, the church was beginning a monthly youth day service. Twenty pounds of dynamite exploded in the building, shattering windows around the church and in some of the neighboring buildings. It was under the fallen debris that the bodies of four young girls was found. They died because of the color of their skin. Director: Spike Lee. 103 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6275 Fourth Inning, The: A National Heirloom, 1920-1930
Summary: The astounding play of Babe Ruth captivates people everywhere, making him a household name, the first superstar known to fans and non-fans alike. Leading the Yankees' "Murderers' Row, " Ruth hits a milestone 60 homers in 1927, securing his legend forever. 117 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: SPORTS, U.S. HISTORY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: BASEBALL

VH 7282 Frederick Douglass
Summary: Guests examine the history of slavery and freedom in 19th century America through the life and writings of Frederick Douglass. 141 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0887 Frederick Douglass-An American Life
Summary: A documentary on the personal and public life of orator, emancipator, and statesman Frederick Douglass as told in his own words. Flashbacks recreate critical events that shaped his life. Covers his years as a slave; his escape; his relationships with William Garrison, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and Harriet Tubman; his newspaper; and his family life. 030 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, BIOGRAPHY

VH 3462 Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History
Summary: Frederick Douglass was a passionate leader in the early fight for civil rights. He was also in the political trenches with the first American women's rights activists, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton... laying a foundation for modern feminism. Frederick Douglass was an elegant orator and provocative abolitionist. An escaped slave whose freedom was bought by supporters he met on a speaking tour in England, Douglass became a journalist, publisher, diplomat and an unceasing voice for civil rights - the hallmark of a free society. 089 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 5812 Freedom Bags
Summary: Freedom bags is the story of African-American women who migrated from the rural south during the first three decades of the 20th century. Hoping to escape from the racism and poverty of the post Civil War South, they boarded segregated trains for an uncertain future up North. Most could find jobs only as houseworkers, but they kept their dignity and sense of worth through difficult times. 034 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2874 Freedom On My Mind
Summary: The best film yet on the African-American freedom struggles of the 1960's. Told mainly from the perspective of Mississippi blacks whose lives were transformed during the course of the civil rights movement, this documentary conveys the emotion and excitement of a unique period in American history. In its dramatic effectiveness and historical acuity, Freedom On My Mind surpasses all previous documentaries of the southern struggle. 110 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6402 From Fields of Promise
Summary: Discusses the efforts of descendants of slaves in Gee's Bend, Alabama, to be able to own part of the land where their ancestors worked. Also discusses the history of the Pettway Plantation. 057 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: U.S. HISTORY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6520 From Swastika to Jim Crow
Summary: Jewish scholars who escaped Nazi Germany and immigrated to the U.S. were confronted with anti-Semitism at major universities. A surprising number secured teaching positions at historically Black colleges in the South. In many cases they formed lasting relationships with their students and had an important impact on the communities in which they lived. This is a story of two cultures, each sharing a burden of oppression, brought together by the tragic circumstances of war. 057 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY

VH 0645 Frozen World, The
Summary: Narrator Kenneth Clark defines civilization and gives a synoptic view of the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the rise of the great Gothic period. Compares and contrasts high and primitive arts as embodied in the head of Apollo Belvedere and an African tribal mask. 053 Min. VIDEO Subject: EARLY CIVILIZATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: CIVILIZATION

VH 5872 Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker
Summary: This film on Ella Baker's life work highlights the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the period of the most dramatic upsurge in the struggle for racial justice. Since Ms. Baker's activities spanned over 50 years in the North and South, the struggles of earlier decades are portrayed, giving a sense of the continuity of the fight for social change and racial justice. 063 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 3207 General Colin Powell: What I've Learned
Summary: This portrait shows how far a disadvantaged minority can go - and how Colin Powell was able to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The son of Jamaican immigrants, he was born to Harlem and grew up in the South Bronx. He says he didn't know he was a minority because everyone was a minority; that yes, there were drugs in the neighborhood but that they were not tolerated among those with strong family ties. 028 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5073 General Math
Summary: Instructor Shahid Muhammad teaches children basic math skills and intro duces them to geometric shapes. 120 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: MATHEMATICS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: TEACHING MATH TO BLACK STUDENTS

VH 6881 George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire, Pt. 1
Summary: George Wallace, a four-time governor of Alabama and candidate for the presidency, was a fierce defender of Southern pride and a man who was central to the civil rights years in the South. 090 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: BIOGRAPHY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: HISTORY'S BEST ON PBS

VH 6882 George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire, Pt. 2
Summary: George Wallace, a four-time governor of Alabama and candidate for the p residency, was a fierce defender of Southern pride and a man who was central to the civil rights years in the South. 180 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: BIOGRAPHY, CIVIL RIGHTS, U.S. HISTORY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: HISTORY'S BEST ON PBS

VH 6400 George Washington Carver
Summary: Born into slavery and raised during Reconstruction, George Washington Carver struggled through poor health, poverty and prejudice to become a great benefactor. Famous for his work with the peanut, he was a creative scientist whose life work is an inspiration to all. 030 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, BIOGRAPHY Series: AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY SERIES

VH 4620 Get on the Bus
Summary: Spike Lee creates different men to follow throughout the Million Man March. On the way they will make friends, make enemies, and make history. Director: Spike Lee. 121 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, COMMUNICATION, DRAMA

VH 5342 Ghosts of Mississippi
Summary: This film follows the final trial of the murder of civil rights leader Medger Evers. It carefully recreates the details of this relentless quest for justice. 131 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY, DRAMA

VH 6797 Gift, The
Summary: Second of ten episodes tracing the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to the present day. This video features Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and describes the beginning of the Jazz Age in New York and Chicago during the early 1920s. 120 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, EUROPEAN STUDIES Series: JAZZ

VH 4808 Gloria Naylor
Summary: In this program Naylor discusses the value and difficulty of maintaining an African American identity in a world dominated by whites. Naylor reminds her readers, "to celebrate voraciously that which is yours." 021 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, WRITERS Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

VH 2722 Goin' to Chicago
Summary: Chronicles one of the most momentous, yet least heralded sagas of American history-the great migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North and West. Four million black people created a new dynamic urban culture outside the South, changing American forever. 071 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY

VH 3719 Goldwidows: Women in Lesotho
Summary: Focuses on four Basotho women of Lesotho, a small mountainous country within South Africa that is economically dependent on South African industry. Although most Basotho men, and often up to 60% at one time, have worked as migrant laborers in South Africa's gold mines, apartheid laws forbid these women and their children to enter South Africa. They live as practical widows, three in a remote mountain village, while the fourth, Sheila Nkueve, has moved to the capital Maseru, to look for work. Each tells of her life, coping alone, caught in the inhumane web of South Africa's oppressive system. 052 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1449 Gospel & Spirituals
Summary: Examines the development and musical characteristics of spirituals and gospel music and relates the contemporary expression of these styles to their original functions and settings. Points out the difference between spirituals and gospel music, presenting a wide variety of examples of each type. 029 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: FROM JUMPSTREET

VH 2031 Great Black Women
Summary: Hosted by Tanya Gart, the program looks at the ways in Black women today and throughout our history have triumphed over adversity to make significant contributions in the fields of politics, entertainment, civil rights, business, public service, music, and sports. 052 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3291 Great Day in Harlem, A
Summary: In 1958, Art Kane, one of New York's most promising young art directors, conceived the idea of an all encompassing group shot of "everyone" in the jazz world. The word went out to meet uptown at 10: 00 AM on a Summer morning - quite an early hour for musicians who usually played till dawn. Jazz greats mingled with legends - all but ignoring the man who was trying to get them to pose. A GREAT DAY IN HARLEM features rare, never before seen home movie footage of the jazz stars arriving greeting each other the morning of the shoot. Also included are conversations with jazz greats and archival performance footage. 060 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6399 Growing Up African American: Gaining an Appreciation of your
Summary: Ancient African civilizations--The contributions that Africans made to the world--Accurate history and appreciating your cultural heritage--The influence that Africans played on America--Conclusion. 016 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

VH 6334 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Summary: When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. 108 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, DRAMA

VH 6796 Gumbo
Summary: First of ten episodes tracing the history of Jazz from its roots in the African American community of New Orleans during the 1890s to its heights and continuing presence, this video features artists Jelly Roll Morton, Buddy Bolden, Sidney Bechet, and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. 090 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: JAZZ

VH 2913 Hairpiece: A Film For Nappy-Headed People
Summary: An animated satire on the question of self image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in the wind and lets you be free. 010 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: SOCIOLOGY, COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0414 Hands That Picked Cotton
Summary: Using a historical perspective, discusses how Blacks are becoming more politically active in the southern United States, locally, and in state and national government. Includes footage on Robert Clark's unsuccessful run for Congress in 1982. 059 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 4874 Harassment of African American Officials, The, Tape 1
Summary: Congressional Black Caucus, Washington, D.C. 9/2/1990. The panel discussion focused on reported harassment of African American elected and appointed officials. One focus was the need to stop harassment, not just cope with it. Part 1 of 2. 120 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4875 Harassment of African American Officials, The, Tape 2
Summary: Congressional Black Caucus, Washington, D.C. 9/2/1990. The panel discussion focused on reported harassment of African American elected and appointed officials. One focus was the need to stop harassment, not just cope with it. Part 2 of 2. 025 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6386 Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, The
Summary: A two-part production which introduces the viewer to the major Black writers of the 1920s, and in particular, to those writers of this period who collectively were referred to as the "Harlem Renaissance." 032 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2365 Harlem Rides The Range
Summary: An unusual, action-packed all-black-cast Western with songs. Herbert Jeffrey plays the unemployed rider from Amarillo who is falsely accused of murder. Herb Jeffrey, Lucius Brooks, Flournoy E. Miller, Artic Young, Spencer Williams, Clarence Brooks and Tom Southern. Director: Richard Kahn. 058 Min. VIDEO 1939 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 7903 Harlem Swings
Summary: In this collection, swing greats Dusty Fletcher, Ethel Waters, Louis Jordan, and comedian Stepin Fetchit and others perform in all-black cast musical comedy short subjects. 070 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1069 Harlem: The Depression Years
Summary: Explores Harlem's ethnic heritage, looking at the area's development against the background of the Depression. Examines the effect of the Work Progress Administration movement, the numbers' game ritual, and the heroic reputation of such figures as boxer Joe Louis. 058 Min. VIDEO Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6071 Harmonica Breakdown: The Blues as Social History
Summary: Dancer-choreographer Jane Dudley talks about the creation of her dance solo "Harmonica Breakdown" in 1938. She recalls the desire of artists of the period to change society; the social climate of the Depression years; and the music of Sonny Terry (who is seen in archival footage) that inspired her choreography. Still photographs by Gerde Peterich, showing Dudley performing the solo, illustrate Dudley's description of the dance's imagery. She is seen rehearsing with Sheron Wray, who performs the solo in full. 015 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: DANCE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 7283 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Summary: A pair of scholars examine the history of slavery, abolitionism and antebellum era society through the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe. 152 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1471 Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Summary: Portrays the Underground Railroad, emphasizing the role of Harriet Tub man in the movement and the conflicts and trials involved in a slave's flight to freedom prior to the Civil War. 049 Min. VIDEO 1964 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2102 Henry Ossawa Tanner
Summary: From 19th century America, to the Salons and ateliers of turn of the century Paris, Henry Ossawa Tanner overcame obstacles of race and art to become one of the greatest American painters of his time. 016 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6407 Heritage of African-American Worship, The
Summary: The series explores America's rich tapestry of religious beliefs by visiting the places where those faiths took root and grew. In this program the story of the African-American church in America is presented, from Boston's African Meeting House in 1804 to Birmingham and Montgomery in the 1960s. 047 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: LANDMARKS OF FAITH

VH 2275 Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, A
Summary: The compelling family drama about a ghetto mother, stepfather and child. The child is Benjie, a sensitive 13-year-old with a confident wit and bright academic future. The pressures of drugs and crime nearly take that bright future away. Director: Ralph Nelson. 107 Min. VIDEO 1977 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6044 History Buried, A, The Duval Cummings Family (Ontario)
Summary: The Duval family are descendants of fugitive slaves who fled New Orleans by way of the Underground Railway in the 1860s. There were, at that time, already 25, 000 free black people in Canada. 058 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, BIOGRAPHY Series: HYMN TO FREEDOM: THE HISTORY OF BLACKS IN CANADA

VH 2962 History of Slavery in America, A
Summary: This program explores the institution of slavery in North America from the 1600's to the early days of Reconstruction. From the auction block to the Underground Railroad, the program seeks to dispel the myth that slavery was a passive state. Slave rebellions and abolitionists like Frederick Douglass demonstrate that there was an ongoing and persistent attempt to end slavery in America. 030 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1751 Home of the Brave
Summary: Lloyd Bridges, James Edwards, Douglas Dick, Steve Brodie, Frank Lovejoy & Jeff Corey. Directed by Mark Robson. A paralyzed black GI haunted by racist persecution & the terrors of war is helped by an Army psychiatrist. 086 Min. VIDEO 1949 Subject: COMMUNICATION, PSYCHOLOGY, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4844 Homecoming
Summary: Film maker Charlene Gilbert chronicles her own family, as well as African Americans as farmers and landowners, in general. Issues such as education, the ability of African Americans to get credit from banks, and sharecropping are explored. Gilbert includes academic analyses of history as well as a depiction of the present and predictions for the future. 056 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 7947 Huey P. Newton Story, A
Summary: In this one person show directed by Spike Lee, Roger Guenveur Smith presents the life, thoughts, and philosophy of Huey P. Newton, the leader of the Black Power Movement. The performance is before a live audience and supplemented with archival footage. 094 Min. VIDEO 2002 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6437 I Am Woman / Voices of Power: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Women
Summary: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES women have captured the moral imagination of mainstream America through their essays, novels, poetry, and other artistic endeavors, breaching the static lines of race, gender, and class. How have their reelections so clearly articulated the hopes and philosophies of so many? This program examines the emergence of AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES women as popular and powerful voices of social conscience. 029 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, WRITERS

VH 4703 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Summary: Based on the best selling autobiography by Maya Angelou. Her life began in the vicious racist, Depression era Arkansas with the sensitive Maya being shunted between her grandmother's house and her mother's - where she is raped... and withdraws into total silence. Finally, she speaks again and in her valedictory address, shares her realization. "In order to lift your voice, you have to lift your head." Directed by: Fielder Cook. 096 Min. VIDEO 1978 Subject: BIOGRAPHY, WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1070 I Remember Harlem: The Early Years: 1600 - 1930
Summary: Looks at Harlem's early days, first as a native American fishing village, then as a Dutch farming community and as English colony. Traces the community's growth as a wealthy New York City suburb and finally as a burgeoning black neighborhood. Discusses the 369th Infantry's return home after World War I, the nationalist Marcus Garvey movement and the Harlem renaissance of the 1920's. 058 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1066 I Remember Harlem: Toward a New Day: 1965 - 1980
Summary: Charts Harlem's decline, rebirth, and attempts at redevelopment; churches; and some predictions for the future from its famous as well as its obscure citizens. 058 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1068 I Remember Harlem: Toward Freedom: 1940 - 1965
Summary: Examines Harlem's politics of protest along with some of its noted political leaders including Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Explores the effects of World War II, the emergence of uptown gangs, and the community's social growth in the 1960's. 058 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6588 I Shall Not Be Removed
Summary: A film biography of Marlon Riggs, the gifted gay, black filmmaker who produced documentary films addressing issues of identity among Afro-Americans and gays. Clips from his films show how he evolved a unique experimental documentary style, mixing poetry, criticism, the personal and the political. It also documents his long battle against AIDS until his death in 1994 and includes interview with family, friends, and co-workers. 059 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1356 Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Summary: Chronicles the life of Ida B. Wells, an early black activist who protested lynchings, unfair treatment of black soldiers, and other examples of racism and injustice toward black Americans around the turn of the century. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1696 Identifiable Qualities: Toni Morrison
Summary: Toni Morrison speaks about such topics as the events of the sixties which led her to write her first novel, "The Bluest Eye, " the use of personal experience as a source for her strong Black female characters, and the advantage to publishers of placing Black writers in the mainstream. 030 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1750 Imitation of Life
Summary: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee & Dan O'Herlihy. Directed by Douglas Sirk. Two women friends, one white, one black, both lose rapport with their daughters as all pursue careers & romance. 124 Min. VIDEO 1959 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6920 Impact of Hip-Hop Culture on Politics and Society
Summary: A panel discussion on hip-hop and African American political empowerment. Participants talked about the cultural impact of hip-hop music, the expressions of strong language and depictions of violence in the music, and the use of the art form as political expression. This forum was part of the Hip-Hop Summit, held in New York City, June 12-13, 2001. Panelists include members from the Congressional Black Caucus. 110 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 0736 In A Jazz Way ( A Portrait of Mura Dehn)
Summary: Provides a portrait of dancer Mura Dehn. Born and trained in Russia, she went to Paris in 1925, met Josephine Baker and discovered jazz. Tells how she came to New York and choreographed jazz tunes. Includes a live interview with Mura Dehn along with archival footage. 030 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: DANCE, JAZZ, BIOGRAPHY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6708 In Depth: Toni Morrison, Part 1
Summary: Author Toni Morrison discusses her writings, life, and the craft of wri ting, and responds to audience telephone calls and electronic mail questions. 117 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6709 In Depth: Toni Morrison, Part 2
Summary: Author Toni Morrison discusses her writings, life, and the craft of wri ting, and responds to audience telephone calls and electronic mail questions. 064 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 6775 In the Name of Brotherhood
Summary: Fictional story, based on actual events, about pledging, hazing, friendship, betrayal and survival in an exclusive fraternity. Directed by Walter "Big Walt" Anderson. 085 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5706 Initiates
Summary: Highlights the younger poets of the 1990s who represent the promise and diversity of Black poetry as it develops into the 21st century. Includes Elizabeth Alexander and members of the Dark Room Collective: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Kevin Yong, Sharan Strange, Major Jackson, Vera Beatty, John Keene and Natasha Trethewey. 027 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, WRITERS Series: FURIOUS FLOWER: AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY 1960 - 1995

VH 7295 Innovative Approach to Counseling African Descent People
Summary: Demonstrates steps to engage peoples of African descent in the counseling process by emphasizing the African-centered world view, a framework support by notions including spiritedness, interconnection (everything is of the same substance), a belief that the collective is the most salient element of existence, and that self-knowledge is the key to mental health. 038 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: CULTURALLY-COMPETENT COUNSELING AND THERAPY

VH 4371 An Interview with Louis Farrakhan
Summary: Ted Koppel and Minister Louis Farrakhan discuss Farrakhan's incendiary rhetoric and charismatic leadership. Topics probed include Farrakhan's allegedly anti-Semitic statements that have alienated the Jewish community, and his friendship with, and the billion dollar gift from Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. Farrakhan also discusses his pivotal roles as organizer of the Million Man March and spokesman for African-American Muslims. 022 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2221 James Alan McPherson
Summary: James McPherson speaks frankly about writing frustrations and offers his views on a variety of subjects including black studies and creative writing classes. 030 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: WRITER'S WORKSHOP

VH 1341 James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Summary: Presents a look at author James Baldwin's life as reflected in his words and reminiscences of family and friends. 086 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 7281 James Madison, Thomas Jefferson
Summary: A group of scholars and historians examine the nation's founding through the writings and lives of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. 142 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: WRITERS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1456 Jazz Gets Blue
Summary: Identifies the basic form and feeling of blues with reference to the classic blues style and demonstrates the application of blues to jazz. Features Willie Dixon, Roy Eldridge and Jackie McLean. 029 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: FROM JUMPSTREET

VH 2477 Jazz Parades-Feet Don't Fail Me Now
Summary: New Orleans, birthplace of American jazz, is the setting for this episode of AMERICAN PATCHWORK. Alan Lomax looks at neighborhood dances, social clubs, a rooftop dancer named "Spiderman" and Mardi Gras, the annual parade which celebrates the city's proud cultural and musical heritage. 060 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AMERICAN PATCHWORK

VH 1454 Jazz People
Summary: Surveys the modern forms of the uniquely American music known as jazz and explores the social and environmental factors within the Afro-American culture that contributed to its development. Uses film clips and photographs to identify numerous key individuals and groups who represent various periods in the history of Jazz. Also features Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody and Jackie McLean. 029 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: FROM JUMPSTREET

VH 1448 Jazz Vocalists
Summary: Using performances, interviews, documentary films and animation, these 13 programs explore Black musical tradition from its beginnings to its present place in American music. 029 Min. VIDEO 1980 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: FROM JUMPSTREET

VH 1486 Jazz: Earl Hines & Coleman Hawkins
Summary: A rare historic musical session with Earl Hines (piano and vocals) and Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax) from 1965. 028 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: JAZZ, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5107 Jefferson and Hemings: Social Implications, Tape 1
Summary: The panelists discussed the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and S ally Hemings. They talked about the cultural impact of recent DNA evidence, and whether or not Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child with Sally Hemings. Ms. Stanton explained the history of the Hemings family in the Jefferson house hold. 061 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 5108 Jefferson and Hemings: Social Implications, Tape 2
Summary: The panelists discussed the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. 104 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 7923 Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
Summary: Spike Lee's first film recreates the world of the corner barbershop, the local meeting place where people talk, put their money on the lucky numbers and sometimes get a haircut. Set against the graffiti-covered concrete of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, this film skillfully combines wit and drama to provide a unique and highly entertaining perspective on attempts to break away from the urban treadmill. Directed by Spike Lee. 060 Min. VIDEO 1983 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY

VH 4401 John Henrick Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk
Summary: Profiles the life and times of the noted AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES historian, scholar, and Pan-African activist, who has been a central figure in Harlem since the 1930's. Directed by: St. Clair Bourne. 094 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4813 John Wideman
Summary: In this video Wideman discusses the dilemma of the committed African American intellectual torn between the urban underclass and a predominantly white, middle-class literary audience. 026 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, WRITERS Series: IN BLACK AND WHITE

VH 1873 Join Hands and Sing
Summary: Shows how Israel has honored the memory & teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King. 011 Min. VIDEO Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2388 Juba: The Legend of Harriet Tubman
Summary: One of a series of four programs about the cultural heritage of black Americans designed to make students aware of and curious about AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES folklore traditions. "Aunt Iasha" is studying for her role in a play about the life of Harriet Tubman. Her rehearsal takes us through Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery, her 19 return trips to free family members and others, and her two years of service as a nurse and a spy in the Union Army during the Civil War. 015 Min. VIDEO Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4920 Judgement Day
Summary: As the nation expands westward, slavery becomes the most divisive issue in American life. Abolitionists struggle to bring the institution down and the nation is tested as never before. When tensions over slavery erupt into violence, Americans are forced to consider how long the country can continue as a democracy built on the profits of bondage. 090 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY Series: AFRICANS IN AMERICA

VH 1795 Jungle Fever
Summary: A married black architect's affair with his white secretary provides the backdrop for a cold look at interracial love. Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Anthony Quinn, Halle Berry, Tyra Ferrell. Explores the provocative consequences of interracial relationships. Director: Spike Lee. Soundtrack by Stevie Wonder. 131 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4622 Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
Summary: A spirited Brooklyn teenager coping with life in the projects fiercely wants to go to college and become a doctor. Directed by Leslie Harris. 096 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 1186 Keys to the Kingdom, The (1974-1980)
Summary: This show examines the relationship between law and popular struggle as it chronicles efforts to inject substance into promises of equality. The movement's focus is on the keys to the kingdom: jobs and education. Includes footage of Boston and Atlanta's Mayor Maynard Jackson, the city's first black mayor. 060 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY, U.S. HISTORY, CIVIL RIGHTS Series: EYES ON THE PRIZE II

VH 7145 Kicking High...In The Golden Years
Summary: Challenges negative stereotypes of aging through scenes of musical presentations and through discussions with Black senior citizens who are leading active, happy and productive lives. 058 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2573 Killer of Sheep
Summary: Shows the struggle of an African American slaughter house worker to survive economic and social obstacles. 079 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 2315 Killing Floor, The
Summary: Set in the early 1900's, this true story retells the often brutal and violent beginnings of the U.S. Labor Movement through the eyes of a Southern black share cropper who finds work in a Chicago slaughterhouse. Director: Bill Duke. 118 Min. VIDEO 1985 Subject: COMMUNICATION, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4853 KKK: Hate Crimes in America
Summary: Originally formed as a social club, the Ku Klux Klan grew into a hate group striving to restore white supremacy in the South. Swathed in white sheets and robes, Klansmen beat and murdered black citizens and their white supporters in nighttime raids. In the 1920's, a burning cross became the group's symbol. 050 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, U.S. HISTORY

VH 4876 Kwame Ture Tribute
Summary: Supporters gathered at a fund-raising tribute for Kwame Ture, who was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. They talked about his civil rights activities since the 1960's and expressed their affection for him and their gratitude for his work. Mr. Ture spoke about the need for coordinated long range planning and thinking as well as action by African Americans to obtain more political and economic power. He emphasized that the masses must unite in an independent movement to attain this goal. 117 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 4879 Kwame Ture Tribute
Summary: Friends and colleagues gathered to honor Kwame Ture, a leader of voting drives and student activities during the civil rights movement. They shared personal experiences of their common struggles and Ture's role in the civil rights movement. Mr. Ture's remarks are difficult to understand due to poor audio. Rev. Farrakhan delivered the concluding prayer. 132 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3199 Kwanzaa: A Cultural Celebration
Summary: Kwanzaa, originally created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga as a black nationalist alternative to Christmas, has become a more and more widely observed cultural holiday. It provides African Americans with a unique celebration that is rooted in the rich African tradition of their ancestors and the symbolism of the African harvest. This program offers a look through the eyes of African Americans at the principles and practices of this joyous holiday. 029 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTHROPOLOGY

VH 0286 Langston Hughes
Summary: A chronological look at the life and work of Langston Hughes with illustrated readings from his poetry and interviews with friends, colleagues and a biographer. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, WRITERS, BIOGRAPHY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: VOICES AND VISIONS

VH 5708 Language You Cry In, The
Summary: Recounts the remarkable saga of how African-Americans retained links with their African past through a song, a burial hymn of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast more than two hundred years ago. Directed by Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano. 053 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 0624 Legacy of a Dream
Summary: Presents a compilation of newsreel and videotape footage showing the events that secured the vote for American blacks and ultimately led to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes a sketch of King's career and statements by Coretta King and Andrew Young on voter registration and the need