The Media Library of Genesee Valley BOCES

Martin Luther King, Jr. learns about the harsh realities of segregation, and, as he matures, vows to do something about the injustices of Jim Crow. King learns many life's lessons from his grandmother. The civil rights leader is seen in college and then on his first job as a minister in Montgomery, Alabama. His emergence as America's leading voice for racial injustice, his "I Have a Dream" speech, and his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize is also covered. [Please Note: This title is available through the "TIMELY TOPICS COLLECTION" in your elementary library media center 01/07 - 06/07.]

Sojourner traveled the country telling her painful story of slavery. She crusaded against slavery, and for women's rights. She was born a slave in the late1700's and eventually aided in freeing her fellow people

Using dramatic reenactments, this program tells the story of Rosa Park's life both before and after the momentous day in 1956 when she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her act of defiance helped spark a revolution that changed the United States forever. Gives students an appreciation for what life was like for African Americans living in a segregated South

Follows the story of segregation sanctioned by the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson decision through the cases led by attorney Charles Hamilton Houston that led to the triumph of Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954. Uses archival footage to show much of the segregation in the South during the first half of the 20th century. Focuses on the legal strategies used by Houston and the NAACP to overturn the concept of "separate but equal" forever

Covers the assassination of Lincoln, the aftermath of the war, Reconstruction, 14th and 15th Constitutional Amendments, the Freedman's Bureau, Republican rule, Ku Klux Klan, segregation, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws

A black family in Chicago tries to leave the ghetto behind them to live in an all-white neighborhood. Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry

In the final year of Martin Luthur King's life, the movement turned its attention to the economic issues confronting the nation and the ramblings of a far off war in Vietnam

Illustrates the early rise of a successful Black middle class and the determination of white supremacists to destroy fledgling Black political power. The growing oppression had a profound effect on W.E.B. DuBois and a teenage mail carrier named Walter White. Both would become leaders of a newly formed organization to fight Jim Crow: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The episode ends with Black Americans departing for World War I

Examines the surge of Black activism that took place after World War II. Black veterans returned from the war determined to achieve the same rights at home that they had fought for in Europe. One vet, Medgar Evers, became an organizer for the NAACP in Mississippi and was later assassinated for his work. Voter registration drives and other demands for equality were answered by violence by white supremacists. The landmark Brown V. Board of Education decision irreparably breached the legal basis for Jim Crow, and through that opening, the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum

A new round of race riots and lynching brakes out in the aftermath of World War I yet this is also a time of increasing strength for Black resistance movements. Episode three chronicles the years between the wars as a time of massive Black migration out of the South and continuing conflict within it. By the 1930's, many African-Americans find their sole support from Socialists and Communists who help organize tenant farmers and defend the "Scottsboro Boys," nine Black youths falsely accused of rape.