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Description

1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound

digital

video file MPEG-4 Flash

Note

Title from title frames.

Event

Originally produced by PBS in 2013.

Summary

Written and presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, this six-hour series explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed -- forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds. Commencing with the origins of slavery in Africa, the series moves through five centuries of remarkable historic events right up to the present -- when America is led by a black president, yet remains a nation deeply divided by race. By highlighting the tragedies, triumphs and contradictions of the black experience, the series reveals to viewers that the African-American community has never been a uniform entity, and that its members have been actively debating their differences from their first days in this country. Throughout the course of the series, viewers will see that the road to freedom for black people in America has not been linear, but more like the course of a river, full of loops and eddies, slowing, and occasionally reversing the current of progress. In this episode: During the Jim Crow era, African Americans struggled to build their own worlds within the harsh confines of segregation. At the turn of the 20th century, a steady stream of African Americans left the South, fleeing racial violence and searching for better opportunities in the North and the West. At the same time, there was an ascendance of black arts and culture, such as The Harlem Renaissance.

System Details

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subject

African Americans -- United States -- History.

Race.

Documentary films.

Genre/Form

Documentary films.

Added Author

Streeter, Sabin,

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,

Kanopy (Firm)

Music No.

1122992 Kanopy