APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA - 1957
South Africa's Apartheid Policy in regards to race relations, political practices and segregation.
Historical films 1957 34 min BW
BALTIMORE PLAN 1953 - ATTACKING HOUSING CONDITIONS
Documents how a young social worker aroused interest of citizens, government officials, and local newspaper in housing conditions in a Baltimore slum neighborhood.
Historical films 1953 BW 20 min
BALTIMORE RIOTS 1968
As the news of the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. spreads like wildfire, riots and protests break out in over 125 U.S. cities.
Historical films 1968 28 min COL
BLACK CONTRIBUTION: ORIGINS
Using staged scenes to depict the history of the Yoruba people of West Africa as they are enslaved and bound for Colonial America with scenes of Yoruba culture while in West Africa, enslaved blacks in leg irons and chains, the horrific conditions inside a slave ship and more.
Historical films Colonial Times COL 15min
BLACK CONTRIBUTION: LITERATURE AND THEATER
The contribution of African-Americans in literature, theater and the arts with scenes of Margaret Walker poem For My People, urban street scenes of the Black community, short scenes from the Lorraine Hansberry play A Raison In The Sun and more.
Historical films COL 11 min
BLACK PANTHER PARTY, THE - 1966 - 1969
Huey P. Newton speaking from jail, members marching in protest, Black Panther Party Leaders Huey P. Newton, Elderidge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale speaking out on justice for African Americans.
Historical films 1966 - 1969 15 min BW
CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH - SELMA, ALABAMA 1965
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., leads Civil Rights marchers on a journey to reach Montgomery, the Capitol of Alabama.
Historical films 1965 5 min BW
MARCH, THE
The rally in Washington D.C. called out for comprehensive Civil Rights of African-Americans with the passage of Civil Rights legislation, elimination of racial segregation in public schools, protection from police brutality, prohibiting racial discrimination in hiring and jobs programs.
Historical films 1963 BW 32min
MARCH ON WASHINGTON
With the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's having transformed the political climate a march to Washington D.C. and rally was organized where more than 200,000 Americans joined to hear speeches, songs and prayers led by an array of Civil Rights Leaders, celebrities and clergymen.
Historical films 1963 BW 20min
NEWSREELS: 1963 - AUGUST 29
Civil Rights March In Washington D.C.
Historical films 1963 BW 6 min
REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING CIVIL RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., prior to the march on Washington D.C., participates in a roundtable discussion of rights as they pertain to the government down to individual civil rights.
Historical films 29 min BW
REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREE
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. accepts one of the numerous honorary degrees he received over the course of his life.
Historical films 5 min BW (SILENT)
REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 1964
Major events in the life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leading up to Dr. King being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Historical films 1964 BW 12min
REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING FUNERAL
Outside scenes of the funeral for Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, April 9, 1968.
Historical films 1968 2 min BW
CHICAGO RIOTS 1968
Aftermath of riots that broke out in Chicago upon hearing of the assassination of Reverend Martin Luthor King, Jr.
Historical films 1968 22 min COL
DETROIT RIOTS, 1967
The aftermath of the Detroit Riot in 1967 when police vice squad officers executed a raid on an after-hours drinking club.
Historical films 1967 39 min COL (SILENT)
DETROIT RIOTS, 1967 - 82nd AIRBORNE
Aftermath of the Detroit Riots also know as the 12th Street Riot after police attempted to execute a raid on an unlicensed after-hours drinking club in a predominately black neighborhood.
Historical films 1967 COL 22min (SILENT)
HUNGARIAN REVOLT - 1956
Hungarians revolt against the policies of the Soviet imposed Communist Government causing a military crackdown.
Historical films 1956 7 min BW (SILENT)
1977 KKK March in Mobile: Racial Tensions & Clashes
Footage of the 1977 Ku Klux Klan march in Mobile, Alabama, met with black protests, racial tensions, police intervention, and violent clashes.
Historical films 1977 13 min COL
LINCOLN PARK DEMONSTRATIONS
Anti-War protest in and around Lincoln Park during the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention with crowds of hippie demonstrations culminating into friction and clashes between war protestors, Chicago police and National Guard.
Historical films 1968 COL 23min
MAN ON THE MOVE RACE RELATIONS IN BLACK AMERICA
Race relations and the influence of the Civil Rights Movement in black America through lifestyle, the Arts and economic realities.
Historical films 1960's - 1970's
MEXICAN REVOLUTION - PANCHO VILLA
Revolution in Mexico with scenes of leaders from Mexico and U.S. as well as Pancho Villa and his guerilla militia.
Historical films 1916-1917 BW 6min (SILENT)
MORATORIUM MARCH ON WASHINGTON
Demonstration in Washington D.C. against the war in Vietnam
Historical films Mid 1960's 15 min COL (SILENT)
PEOPLE AND THE POLICE: POLICE BRUTALITY - OAKLAND, CA
Narrator talks about how town was over half black in the 1960's and the police force was all white. How blacks were generally treated with disrespect.
Historical films 1974 COL 25 min
PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER SCHOOL INTEGRATION CRISIS
President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his address to the Nation on racial integration of public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Historical films 1957 BW 12min
RACIAL INTEGRATION - UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
Escorted by Federal Marshals Vivian Malone and James Hood become the first black students to attend the University of Alabama in a win for Civil Rights and Human Rights against institutional racism in the South.
Historical films 1963 COL 4min
SCENES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Unedited footage of the Russian Revolution and civil unrest that ended the rule of of the last Russian Czar which was overthrown by the more radical Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin and ultimately the formation of the Soviet Socialist Republics USSR.
Historical films 1916-1925 BW 9min (SILENT)
VIETNAM MORATORIUM MARCH 1969
Anti-war protest and demonstration under the shadow of the Washington Monument with civilian demonstrators as well as a contingent of war vets marching against the war as well.
Historical films 1969 20 min COL (SILENT)
WASHINGTON D.C. RIOTS
Unedited footage of civil unrest and looting that erupted in Washington D.C. after the news that Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee.
Historical films 1968 COL 18min
WASHINGTON D.C. RIOTS 1968
Riots and protests break out in our Nations' capitol as the news of the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. is reported to the Nation.
Historical films 1968 13 min COL
WOMEN & THE SPIRIT OF '76 - WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Commentators and leaders of the 1970's Women's Rights Movement comment and make connections between the 200 years of progress attained in 1976 to the leadership and reality of Women's Rights in 1776.
Historical films 1976 COL 32min
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN
The Women’s Suffrage Movement in America (United States) and England (Britain) during the mid-19th century to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920
Historical films 1900's BW 25min (SILENT)
WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THE U.S. AN INFORMAL HISTORY
The Feminist Movement in the United States put into historical perspective, from its roots in the colonial period to the late 1970's.
Historical films 1978 28 min BW COL
FIVE CITIES IN JUNE - 1963
Five cities, five historical events; Vatican City - Death Of Pope John XXIII, Unknow Soviet City - Valentina Tershkova First Woman Cosmonaut, Bin Thuy - Village Destroyed By Communists, Tuscaloosa - First Black Students Attend University Of Alabama, Berlin - John F. Kennedy give 'Let Them Come To Berlin' Speech.
Historical films 1963 27 min COL
BUYOUT PHOTOS - SIGNS OF DISCRIMINATION
Documenting institutional racism with discrimination signs and billboards separating the races by law.
Historical Photos 1930s - 1940s