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African American Videos at Madison Public Library

Arts | Customs and Folklore | Drama & Entertainment | Fiction / Literature | History, African | History, North American | History, Other | Music | Politics and Social Justice | Social Sciences | Sports

ARTS see also MUSIC

• From these roots (re Harlem Renaissance)
• Gods of beauty a portrait of the visionary {Madison} artist Mona Boulware Webb
• Half Past Autumn: the Life and Works of Gordon Parks
• Through African eyes (BBC--African art)
• Vinnette Carroll's When hell freezes over, I'll skate

CUSTOMS AND FOLKLORE

• Celebrateing the African American Holiday Kwanza (DVD)
• Kwanzaa: an African-American cultural holiday
• Time to Be Remembered: a Juneteenth Story

DRAMA & ENTERTAINMENT

• Been Rich All My Life (DVD)
• Chris Rock Never Scared
• Classified X (Melvin Van Peebles)
• The Ernest Green Story, Classroom Edition (DVD)
• King (Paul Winfield & Cicely Tyson) (DVD)
• Lost in the Stars ( American Film Theatre)
• Midnight ramble Oscar Micheaux and the story of race movies (American Experience)
• Profile of Paul Robeson
• Roots, the gift
• That's black entertainment
• Tuskegee airmen (drama)

FICTION / LITERATURE

• African American History Collection (3 vols.)
• African American storytelling collection (3 vols.)
• Alex Haley's Queen (3 vols.)
• Chester Himes: a writer's turbultent journey
• Cora Unmasked
• D. P. (short story)
• Richard Wright: Writing Is His Weapon
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Voices & Visions. vol. 3. Langston Hughes the dream keeper
• Writer's work with Toni Morrison
• Zora Is My Name! (Zora Neale Hurston)

HISTORY, AFRICAN

• Africa, programs 1-8
• African American Lives (DVD)
• Africans, v. 1-9
• Amandla! a revolution in four part harmony
• Lost Civilizations: Africa: a History Denied (Time-Life)
• Mandela: the man and his country
• Mandela
• Nelson Mandela the long walk to freedom
• Wonders of the African world (w/ Henry Louis Gates) (3 vols.)

HISTORY, NORTH AMERICAN

• Adam Clayton Powell (American Experience)
• African American Lives (PBS May 2006) (On order)
• African Americans
• Africans in America (4 vols.)
• Always for pleasure
• America. V.6: A Fire Ball in the Sky
• Black American History Series (5vols)
• Black History: lost, stolen, or strayed (Bill Cosby narrator)
• Black Indians: an American Story
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Civil war, episodes 1-9 (PBS Ken Burns)
• Decade of discontent 1960-1970 (Milwaukee--Civil Rights movement)
• Fannie Lou Hamer: Everyday Battle
• First Person Singular: John Hope Franklin
• Frederick Douglass(A&E Biography)
• Frederick Douglass: when the lion wrote history
• Going back to T-town (American Experience)
• Images & realities (4 vols.)
• Killing Floor: the True Story of the Chicago Labor Wars of 1919
• Massachusetts 54th colored infantry (American Experience)
• The 90s, Volume 6: Race and Racism -- Red, White and Black
• Promised Land (3 vol. series) v.1 Any place but here; v. 2 standing at the crossroads; v.3 Walls of Jericho
• Reconstruction: the second Civil War
• Roots of resistance, a story of the underground railroad
• Roots, v. I-VI
• Roots: the next generations (7 vols.)
• Safe Harbor (r.e. Underground railroad)
• Sally Hemings, redefining history
• Slavery and the Making of America (4 vols.)
• Tuskegee Airmen
• Underground Railroad
• Walk through the 20th century with Bill Moyers, episode I (1): Marshall Texas. (Discusses segregation with James Farmer )
• Walk through the 20th century with Bill Moyers, episode VII (7): (discusses the second
• American Revolution and African American history 1800-1930 w/ Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis)
• Walk through the 20th century with Bill Moyers, episode VIII (8): the second American revolution, part 2. (discusses African American history 1896-Civil Rights Movement w/ Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis)

HISTORY, OTHER

• America Goes to War. V.7: Mood Indigo Blacks and Whites
• Anderson platoon
• Liberators: fighting on two fronts in World War II

MUSIC

• Alberta Hunter: my castle's rockin'
• An evening with Lena Horne
• Big City Blues
• Blues like showers of rain
• Carmen McRae(Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual)
• Celebrating Bird: the triumph of Charlie Parker
• Charles Mingus triumph of the underdog
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Eubie!
• Fanny Crosby Story
• Forever Ella: a Celebration of Ella Fitzgerald
• Great day in Harlem
• Imagine the Sound
• James Brown the godfather of soul
• Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
• John Lee Hooker That's My Story
• Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
• Ladies sing the blues
• Lady day: the many faces of Billie Holiday
• Last date: Eric Dolphy
• Learn to play gospel piano
• Legends of Country Blues Guitar
• One, the only, the original Dizzy Gillespie a night in Chicago
• Only the strong survive: a celebration of soul
• Oscar Peterson music in the key of Oscar
• Paul Robeson
• Pride and Joy: the Story of Alligator Records
• Profile of Paul Robeson
• Say Amen, Somebody
• Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus (DVD)
• Sound of Jazz
• Story of Jazz
• That rhythm, those blues
• Thelonius Monk, straight no chaser
• Unforgettable Nat "King" Cole
• Wattstax
• Well spent life (Mance Lipscomb)
• Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

POLITICS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

• 4 little girls (Dir.= Spike Lee)
• America beyond the color line (w/ H.L. Gates, Jr.)
• Brother Minister: the Assassination of Malcolm X: El-Hajj Malik Shabazz (DVD)
• Cinque, Freedom Fighter
• Class divided
• Day to remember: August 28, 1963
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: a historical perspective
• Execution of Wanda Jean
• Eyes on the prize I, v. 1-6
• Eyes on the prize II, v. 1-8
• Fires in the Mirror
• Frontline. the Two Nations of Black America (DVD)
• Huey P. Newton story
• I Have a Dream (Martin Luther King {Aug 28 '63 speech})
• Ida B. Wells a passion for justice (American Experience)
• In remembrance of Martin
• Journeys in Black. Al Sharpton
• Journeys in Black. Louis Farrakhan
• Journeys in Black. Russell Simmons (DVD)
• King: Montgomery to Memphis
• Klan: a legacy of hate in America
• Legacy of a dream (re: Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• Malcolm X (Black Americans of achievement series)
• Malcolm X (his own story as it really happened)
• Malcolm X: make it plain (American Experience)
• Martin Luther King, Jr., the Man and the Dream
• Martin Luther King: commemorative collection
• Martin the emancipator
• Murder of Fred Hampton (DVD)
• Murder of Emmett Till
• Passin' It On [re: Black Panther Party]
• Prejudice: answering children's questions
• Race, the power of an illusion (3 vols.)
• Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change (DVD)
• Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Time for justice: America's civil rights movement
• Unchained memories, readings from the slave narratives
• Unnatural Causes : Is Equality Making Us Sick (DVD).
• White Priviledge 101: Getting in on the Conversation (DVD)

SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Blood in the Face
• Blue Eyed (Jane Elliott)
• Booker T. Washington Educator
• Colin Powell a soldier's campaign
• Countering the conspiracy to destroy Black boys
• Developing positive self-images & discipline in Black Children
• Long search #10: African religions: Zulu Zion
• Making Peace: Facing Racism Lee Mun Wah)
• Making Sense of the Sixties, Vol. 1: Seeds of the Sixties
• Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
• Marketing booze to Blacks
• Morehouse Men
• Negro soldier
• Question of Color
• The Real Eve (re: DNA and prehistoric anthropology)
• Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (4 volumes)
• Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
• Shadow of Hatred: a history of Intolerance in America
• Sojourner Truth antislavery activist
• That's My Face
• This house of power (church history)
• W.E.B DuBois Scholar and Activist
• W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
• Witness to Apartheid
• World of ideas: hope for the long run with Cornel West (w/ Bill Moyers)
• You Have Struck a Rock

SPORTS

• Arthur Ashe: citizen of the world
• Ashes to Glory (DVD): the Tragedy and Triumph of Marsdhall University Football
• The Fight (Louis v. Schmeling)
• Hank Aaron chasing the dream
• Hoop Dreams
• Jackie Robinson
• Jesse Owens returns to Berlin
• Journey of the African-American athlete
• Michael Jordan, His Airness
• Michael Jordan: air time
• Muhammad Ali the whole story (6 vols.)
• Only the ball was white
• Rebound: Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault
• Soul of the game (40s baseball)(drama)
• Tiger Woods son, hero & champion
• Unforgivable Blackness ( Jack Johnson)
• When we were kings (re Muhammad Ali)

rev. 2/09

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