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Awakenings (1954-1956). Fighting back (1957-1962)
Awakenings (1954-1956) : Covers two events that helped to focus the nation's attention on the rights of black Americans: the 1955 lynching in Mississippi of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the 1955-56 Montgomery, Ala. boycott. Also shows southern race relations at mid-century and witnesses the awakening of individuals to their own courage and power. Fighting back (1957-1962) : Covers stories detailing the confrontation between state and federal governments over enforcement of the law of equality, which...
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The keys to the kingdom (1974-1980). Back to the movement (1979-1985)
The keys to the kingdom (1974-1980) : Famous and lesser-known participants recount the remedies used to solve the problems of discrimination in schools and the workplace. For blacks and whites in Boston, court-ordered busing proves an unpopular means of integrating schools. Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson pursues affirmative action to help combat the city's poverty rate. The Bakke Supreme Court case challenges affirmative action when a white man sues a university on grounds of "reverse...
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Mississippi
is this America? (1962-1964). Bridge to freedom (1965)
Mississippi : is this America? (1962-1964) : Focuses on the right to vote. Tells how the black citizens who had been denied the right to vote stepped forward and demanded a place in the political process. Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and others, died trying to help them. Shows the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge the 1964 Democratic Party Convention. Bridge to freedom (1965) : When civil rights protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery,...
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Ain't scared of your jails (1960-1961). No easy walk (1961-1963)
Ain't scared of your jails (1960-1961) : Covers lunch counter sit-ins and their impact on the Kennedy and Nixon presidential race of 1960, the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and the freedom rides of 1961. No easy walk (1961-1963) : Visits the cities where the tactics of nonviolent protest met both success and failure. Also covers the high point of those emotional times, the 1963 March on Washington, and the violence that followed
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The time has come (1964-1966). Two societies (1965-1968)
The time has come (1964-1966) : Malcolm X ... Stokely Carmichael ... "Black Power". After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is on the horizon: the insistent call for power. -- container. Two societies (1965-1968) : Chicago ... Detroit ... the Kerner Commission. Examine the color lines outside of the south with rarely seen, personal testimony by Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and others who survived the times. -- container
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The land where the blues began
Explores the social and cultural background of the blues, including interviews and performances throughout the Mississippi Delta. Includes work songs of the muleskinners in the levee camps, of river roustabouts, of sharecroppers, of churchgoers, and the toasts told in the barrooms
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The ten commandments
De geschiedenis van Mozes vanaf het rieten mandje op de Nijl tot zijn graf op de berg Nebo
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Jazz parades
feet don't fail me now
"Feet don't fail me now" is the theme song of the jazz revival of New Orleans. Alan Lomax looks at various cultural aspects of this city including Mardi Gras, the annual festival which celebrates the city's proud cultural and musical heritage
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Brother to brother
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Nits Urk
Concertregistratie van The Nits, opgenomen op 25 november 1988 in de Stadsschouwburg te Amsterdam
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Hamlet
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American capitalism
challenged at home and abroad
Erwin D. Canham, editor of The Christian Science Monitor moderates (substituting for Mrs. Roosevelt). Guests discuss whether the economic system is one of free enterprise or of mixed economy. They also analyze the need for more comprehensive planning to strengthen the United States' domestic economy and to enable the U.S. to compete successfully in world markets
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TR
Documentary about Theodore Roosevelt. Explores the influence of Rossevelt's childhood, his rise to the U.S. Presidency, and the years after he left office
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Fragile
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