FEATURES & DETAILS:
- Copyright: 1992
- Color
- MARC records, Catalog Card Kit and Single Main Entry Cards are available
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PRODUCT SUMMARY
This complete 22-volume collection of biographies celebrates the most influential African Americans in history. Based on Chelsea House Publishers' critically acclaimed book series that draws from the expertise of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, each volume reviews the individual's message and significance in society today. Oral historian John O'Neal hosts each program, which features lively interviews with leading authorities on the subject's life, accompanied by fascinating archival footage, photographs and period music that illuminates the inspirational and motivational factors in each individual's life.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
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...uniformly excellent...handsomely packaged, this outstanding series is highly recommended and an Editor's Choice." - Video Librarian"...a 'must buy' for any school or public library." - School Library Journal
"...these are important, informative programs that will motivate and inspire viewers to think about what can be done to affect today's crises in the black community." - Library Journal
"Solidly profiling historic greats and prominent achievers of today, these fine videos provide historic context for their biographical coverage of the careers and accomplishments of notables in science, politics, sports, literature, the arts, and other areas of life, from Mary McLeod Bethune to Colin Powell."
"...a useful resource for a wide range of history classes." - Booklist
"...well-conceived and executed...students will thoroughly enjoy these videographic renditions of historically significant figures; but the greater value of these works is the cultural, historical, and socio-political context in which the characters are revealed..." - Multicultural Review
FULL REVIEWS
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"Adapted from Chelsea House Publisher's book series, these 12 videos profiling the lives and times of some of our country's greatest individuals are superbly produced and informed by the commentary of professors from Princeton, Howard, and Rutgers universities. We watched four of the titles: Thurgood Marshall, Colin Powell, Sojourner Truth and Madam C.J. Walker. Each of the programs offered excellent archival footage and photographs, interviews with historians and family members and/or descendants, and music from the period while painting a lively portrait of the individual subject and his/her achievements. Thurgood Marshall, renowned as the first black Supreme Court Justice, was perhaps the single most important figure in the struggle for equal education rights for black Americans. Colin Powell, an overnight celebrity due to the Persian Gulf War, is both the youngest person and the first black to become the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (one of the most powerful positions vis-a-vis foreign policy in the nation). Powell has offered hope, as one interviewee puts it, that there is no glass ceiling when it comes to advancement of minorities. Sojourner Truth was born into slavery at the close of the 18th century (and left it, of her own accord), and became an ardent spokeswoman for the rights of black Americans, the rights of women, and, incidentally, the Lord. And Madam C.J. Walker built an empire in the late 19th-century founded on hair products, and became the first black woman millionaire in America. Uniformly excellent, these four volumes, are accompanied by eight more: George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, and Malcolm X. Handsomely packaged, this outstanding series is highly recommended and an Editor's Choice.