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Film, VideoSegregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 Who were the major black labor historians and how did they come to produce groundbreaking work in economic and labor studies? In a talk at the Library of Congress, Francille Rusan Wilson...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoWe Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi As an illustrator and journalist, Tracy Sugarman covered the nearly one thousand student volunteers who traveled to the Mississippi Delta to assist black citizens in the South in registering to vote. Two...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoAfrican-American Spirituals of the Civil War: Performance Workshop A spirituals performance workshop led by J. Weldon Norris, director of choruses at Howard University and a leading performer-scholar of spirituals. Part of a symposium on African-American Spirituals of the Civil War.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoTurning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March Lynda Blackmon Lowery described her role as the youngest member of the Selma, Alabama Civil Rights March in 1965. Along with her co-authors, Susan Buckley and Elspeth Leacock, Lowery recounted her childhood...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2015
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Film, VideoThe House at the End of the Road" Ralph Eubanks discusses his personal story that began with his grandparents: James Richardson, a white man from a middle-class family, who defiantly married Edna Howell, a light-skinned black woman in 1914 in...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoRising from the Rails Author and journalist Larry Tye discusses his new book, which explores the 100 year history of the black men who worked on George Pullman's railroad sleeping cars.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
- Date: 2004
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Film, VideoRep. Jim Clyburn Delivers the 2009 Keynote Address for African American History Month In recognition of African American History Month, Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) Majority Whip of the House, delivered the Library's 2009 keynote address. The 2009 theme for the month was Quest for...
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoLiberty or Death: Slaves' Suicides & the Fight to Destroy American Slavery As northern abolitionists set about trying to exploit mass media to denounce and destroy American slavery, they found themselves wrestling with the problem of slave suicide. Was it an act of principled...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoNinth Annual State of the Nigerian Nation Symposium: Morning Session The African Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division and the Nigeria Peoples Forum-USA jointly hosted the Ninth Annual State of the Nigerian Nation Symposium -- Developing Nigeria's Power Sector: Strategies,...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoAndrea Davis Pinkney: 2008 National Book Festival Children's author Andrea Davis Pinkney appears at the National Book Festival.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoReverb Gospel/inspirational harmony group Reverb performs as part of the Library's celebration of African American History Month. The concert was also part of the Homegrown Concert Series sponsored by the American Folklife Center.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoHugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the ... Steve Suitts discussed his book "Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution."The event was sponsored by the Library's John W. Kluge Center...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2006
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Film, VideoThe Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War Margaret (Peggy) Wagner discusses "The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War" in commemoration the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoMirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin Historian John Hope Franklin discussed his new autobiography, "Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin." Franklin, who helped redirect the social and political course of the United States throughout the...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2005
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Film, VideoAfrican-American Spirituals of the Civil War: Concert A performance by the Howard University Chorale and Baltimore City College High School Choir, as part of a Library symposium on African-American spirituals of the Civil War.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoAdele Logan Alexander: 2010 National Book Festival Author and scholar Adele Logan Alexander appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoStevie Wonder Performs "Sketches of a Life" Singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder, the awardee of the second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, premieres "Sketches of a Life," a sprawling, hybrid pop-classical concerto, written between 1976 and 1994. The...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoMary Neighbour: Speak Right On On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans were not U.S. citizens, a decision that intensified ongoing debates about slavery, further polarizing the North and the South and helping...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoBlack History Month 2010: NAACP 100th Anniversary In commemoration of African American History Month, the Library of Congress launches a new online exhibition about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an organization which has donated...
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoNell Irvin Painter: 2010 National Book Festival Author and historian Nell Irvin Painter presents at the 2010 National Book Festival.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoThe History of Education in Jamaica Anthony S. Johnson, Ambassador of Jamaica to the United States, delivered a lecture titled "The History of Education in Jamaica."
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Hispanic Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoAfrican American History Month Celebration: National Visionary Leadership Project Showcase The Library of Congress celebrated African American History Month with its signature event--a showcase of the American Folklife Center's National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP) Collection. The NVLP is a collection of oral...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoA Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters Robert E. Lee was a more complex and contradictory man than his iconic image suggests. In her new biography, historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents dozens of previously unpublished letters to draw a...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoThe African Colonial State and the Encounter with Decolonization Crawford Young, a distinguished scholar on Africa and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, discussed "The African Colonial State and the Encounter with Decolonization" in a program sponsored by the Library...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoWil Haygood: 2010 National Book Festival Journalist and biographer Wil Haygood presents at the 2010 National Book Festival.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoWith Their Own Eyes: Photographers Witness the March on Washington A group of eminent photographers -- including Bob Adelman, Theresa Lynn Carter (daughter of Roosevelt Carter), Brigitte Freed (widow of Leonard Freed), and David Johnson -- remember the 1963 March on Washington...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
- Date: 2014
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Film, VideoChinua Achebe: 50th Anniversary of "Things Fall Apart" (Afternoon) Through his fiction and non-fiction works, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has sought to repair the damage done to the continent of Africa and its people as a result of European colonization. This...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoAfricans & African-Americans in Germany A discussion on the pluralistic and multifaceted presence of Africa in Germany with visiting Fulbright Scholar, Magueye Kasse.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoTraveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War Through Reconstruction The book draws on interviews with former slaves in the Library of Congress collections to convey the aspirations, sorrows, courage and hopes of ordinary people living through this period. More than 80...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoFailure of the Freedman's Bank: Freedom, Finance and Security in 19th Century American Capitalism In 1865, Congress chartered the non-profit "Freedman's Savings and Trust Company," a savings bank designed for a population of four million newly emancipated American slaves. By 1873, it had received a staggering...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoImages of Early African American Life Photographic images of African American life at the turn of the 20th century were the subject of a talk by historians David Levering Lewis and Deborah Willis. Their book, "A Small Nation...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2003
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Film, VideoI Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in Image and Proverb Betty Press discussed and signed her new book, "I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom for Life."
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoCharles R. Smith Jr.: 2008 National Book Festival Photographer and children's book author Charles R. Smith Jr. appears at the National Book Festival.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoIsabel Wilkerson: 2011 National Book Festival Author and journalist Isabel Wilkerson appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoWaging Peace: Building a New Life in Chad after Conflict for the Victims of Darfur Brian Wakley, chief executive of CORD, discussed "Waging Peace: Building a New Life in Chad After Conflict for the Victims of Darfur" in a program sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoImmaculee Ilibagiza: 2008 National Book Festival Author Immaculee Ilibagiza speaks at the National Book Festival.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoJudgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Laws That Changed America Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nick Kotz discussed his new book, "Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Laws That Changed America" (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), where he draws upon newly...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2005
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Film, VideoLaw Day 2013: The Movement in America for Civil and Human Rights Carrie Johnson moderated a panel discussion on the movement in America for civil and human rights and the impact it has had in promoting the ideal of equality under the law. This...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Law Library of Congress (U.S.)
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoAn Evening with Chinua Achebe Through his fiction and non-fiction works, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has sought to repair the damage done to the continent of Africa and its people as a result of European colonization. This...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoStevie Wonder Discusses Library Commission "Sketches of a Life" Stevie Wonder talks to Norman Middleton of the Library's Music Division about his new Library of Congress commission, "Sketches of a Life," and his thoughts about composition and music.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2009