![]() |
|||||
![]() |
Leader of men, publisher-editor, statesman, orator, abolitionist, and U.S. Marshal. This documentary explores the life and times of Frederick Douglass. Told in his own words, Douglass recalls the brutality of his own bondage... his escape to freedom... his commitment to human rights of African people... his newspaper The North Star... poignant reflections on his family life... and his relationship with historical people like Harriet Tubman and John Brown.
Color 31 Minutes, You Pay $00.00 |
||||
![]() |
FIGHTER FOR FREEDOM:
The Frederick Douglass Story Historical photos and docudrama segments of the life of this great orator, emancipator, and statesman. His life is traced from his enslavement as a child to his appointment as U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia.
Color 19 Minutes, You Pay You pay $35.00 |
||||
![]() |
Mean to Be Free: John Brown's Black Nation Campaign John Brown's plan for a self-governing nation/state of freed slaves and all "oppressed people who, by a recent decision of the Supreme Court are declared to have no rights the white man is bound to respect" is shown with historic and modern slides and narration of the words of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Mary Ann Shadd, Annie Brown, and Brown himself. Artworks that depict the 1858 and 1859 events are prominently featured, and a dramatic reading of Robert E. Hayden's poem "Runagate Runagate."
Color, You Pay Sold Out |
||||
![]() |
Heritage Day: A Black Perspective
This is a documentation of a three day introspective celebration held at Storer College in 1976. Shirley Chisolm, Andrew Young and other political figures comment on significant historical, cultural and social aspects of African American heritage in the U.S.
Color 24 Minutes You Pay $35.00 |
|||||
![]() LONGINES-WITTNAUER INTERVIEWS: Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. stood as one of the most outspoken congressman serving in the U.S. Congress during the 1950's. In this Kinescope presentation, Powell appears on the news interview program, the Longines-Wittnauer Chronoscope, originally telecast on June 7, 1954. Congressman Powell provides eloquent responses to questions about prejudice, integration in schools, churches, and the armed forces He also discusses his perception of the potential ramifications facing African Americans as well as America after the historical Brown vs. the Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
|
||||||
![]() |
Black Wings: The African American In Aviation
Experience daredevil flyers like the "Flying Hobos"..., W.W.I SPAD fighters... Bessie Coleman... test pilots. You'll meet some of America's brave men and women who have and who are still contributing to America's aviation history. So buckle up and get ready for a lesson in aviation!
Color, 18 Minutes,You Pay $35.00 |
|||||
![]() |
Mickey LeLand: Special Report
This program is a tribute to the outstanding legacy of George Thomas "Mickey" LeLand. It highlights his extraordinary efforts to feed the hungry in Africa during his active leadership as chairman of the Select Committee on Hunger, in the U.S. House of Representatives and his death in a plane crash while on a fact finding mission in Africa.
Color 7 Minutes, You Pay $$35.00 |
||||
![]() |
Getting Started: Beginning
Your Genealogical Research in The National Archives. Find out about your ancestors. This video program introduces you to doing genealogical research with census, military, immigration and land records from the National Archives.
Color 15 Minutes, $35.00 |
||||
![]() |
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: The Life And Legacy Trace the life of Booker T. Washington through location filming, reenactment, period costumes, archival photographs, and interview segments. Against the backdrop of the Reconstruction era, viewers follow his career as one of the most influential educational and political leaders of his time and the founder of the Tuskegee Institute. "This film has the effect of resurrection on the life of one of the greatest Americans this country has every produced a magnificent depiction of the life of this great man." - Dr. Benjamin Paton, President, Tuskegee Institute.
Color 32 Minutes Sold Out |
||||
![]() |
|
|
|||||||||||||
![]() |
![]() |
||||||||||||
![]() |
|||||||||||||
![]() |
|||||||||||||
![]() |
![]() |
||||||||||||
![]() |
![]() |
||||||||||||
![]() |
![]() |
||||||||||||
![]() |
|||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
1015 Stirling Road Silver Spring, MD 20901 301-593-6450 |
|||||||||||||