Honor Black History Month with streaming films available through the library database
Academic Video Online (AVON). This platform includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news, and award-winning films, available both on and off campus.
Highlights
John Lewis: Good Trouble The story of legendary U.S.
Representative John Lewis’ life, legacy, and more than 60 years of
extraordinary activism.
This Little Light of Mine: The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer In
Ruleville, Mississippi in 1961, summers were scorching, cotton was still king,
and African Americans were shackled to white intimidation, poverty and cruel injustice.
Fannie Lou Hamer, a middle aged sharecropper living on a sprawling plantation,
had known no other way. But that all changed when anger, fate and an invitation
to a voting registration meeting redirected the course of her destiny.
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross?
This 6 part PBS series begins with The Black Atlantic:
1500-1800
- The Black Atlantic' explores the global experiences
that created the African-American people. Beginning a century before the
first documented '20-and-odd' slaves who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia,
the episode portrays the earliest Africans, slave and free, who arrived on
these shores. The transatlantic slave trade soon became a vast empire
connecting three continents. Through stories of individuals caught in its
web, the episode traces the emergence of plantation slavery in the
American South and examines what the late 18th-century era of revolutions
- American, French and Haitian - would mean for African Americans and
slavery in America.
The series ends with A More Perfect Union: 1968-2013
- After 1968, African Americans set out to build a bright
future on the foundation of the civil rights movement's victories, but a
growing class disparity threatened to split the black community. As
African Americans won political office across the country and the black
middle class made progress, larger economic and political forces isolated
the black urban poor. When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008,
many hoped that America had finally transcended racism. By the time of his
second victory, however, it was clear that many issues, including true
racial equality, remain to be resolved. How will African Americans help
redefine the United States in the years to come?
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