Black history: from civil war through today

v. 1. In the beginning (275 min.): The Civil War (1954, 15 min.)

The plantation system in Southern life (1951, 11 min.)

To do battle in the land (1985, 25 min.)

Frederick Douglass : an American life (1985, 31 min.)

Fighter for freedom : the Frederick Douglass story (1987, 19 min.)

Booker T. Washington : the life and legacy (1982, 31 min.)

What's a heaven for? (1966, 17 min.)

The Maggie Lena Walker story (1991, 12 min.)

The African burial ground : an American discovery, Parts 1-4 (1994, 1 hr. 54 min.)

v. 2. WWII, the beginning of change (192 min.): Black wings : the American Black in aviation (1983, 18 min.)

Tuskegee airman (1991, 15 min.)

Henry Browne, farmer (1942, 11 min.)

The Negro soldier (1944, 40 min.)

The Negro sailor (1944, 25 min.)

The Navy steward (1948, 20 min.)

African Americans in WWII (1997, 1 hr., 3 min.)

v. 3. Civil rights movement (198 min.): We work again (1937, 11 min.)

Negro colleges in wartime (1944, 8 min.)

Longines chronoscope : Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1954, 11 min.)

Palmour Street (1957, 22 min.)

Open mind with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1957, 27 min.)

All the way home (1957, 30 min.)

What about prejudice (1959, 11 min.)

Integration report (1960, 20 min.)

Poverty in rural American (1965, 28 min.)

Malcolm X : nationalist or humanist (1967, 14 min.)

Teddy (1971, 16 min.)

v. 4. An Historical overview (145 min.): Paul Robeson : the tallest tree in our forest (1977, 1 hr., 24 min.)

Press conference USA with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (1963, 29 min.)

Let us break bread together (1954, 26 min.)

v. 5. The Arts (103 min.): Scott Joplin : king of ragtime composers (1977, 15 min.)

W.C. Handy (1967, 14 min.)

Paul Laurence Dunbar : America's first black poet (1972, 23 min.)

Lou Stovall (1983, 14 min.)

Larry Lebby and stone lithography (1983, 7 min.)

Contemporary visual expression (1987, 22 min.)

The Negro in entertainment (1940, 10 min.)

v. 6. Sports & science (93 min.): 1936 Olympic highlights (1936, 10 min.)

The Brown Bomber (1939, 10 min.)

Joe Louis vs Max Schmelling (1938, 18 min.)

The Negro in sports (1950, 10 min.)

From dreams to reality : a tribute to minority inventors (1986, 26 min.)

Jan Matzeliger (1989, 5 min.)

The Negro in industry (1965, 11 min.)