#D6600
22 Volume Set
Grades 5 & Up
30 minutes each
Set: $479.40, Each: $39.95
This outstanding collection of video 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. Lively interviews with leading authorities on the subject's life, accompanied by fascinating archival footage, photographs and period music, illuminate the inspirational and motivational factors in each important individual's life. Copyright 1992 & 1994.
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#D6601, $39.95
(c. 1864-1943) This compelling biography details the life of botanist George Washington Carver. Born into slavery just before the Civil War, Carver was a curious child who developed a strong interest in plant life. His life was dedicated to the betterment of African Americans in the south. 30 minutes.
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#D6602, $39.95
(1818-1895) Abolitionist editor Frederick Douglass was born into slavery as Frederick Bailey in 1818. Secretly taught to read and write as a young boy, he started an illegal school for slaves as a young man. Douglass was deeply involved in the operation of the Underground Railroad. He believed that active political work would make a difference, and he fought for the rights of African Americans and women, later serving in the Foreign Service. 30 minutes.
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#D6603, $39.95
(1941-Present) Well-known for his life-long efforts as a voice for black America, civil rights activist and politician Jesse Jackson continues to play an important political role in America. 30 minutes.
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#D6604, $39.95
(1929-1968) Moving interviews with civil rights leaders Andrew Young and James Farmer detail the inspirational life of Martin Luther King, Jr. 30 minutes.
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#D6605, $39.95
(1908-1993) Born in a racially divisive time, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was compelled to make a career as a lawyer and justice devoted to the elimination of legalized segregation of blacks and whites in all facets of life. 30 minutes.
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#D6606, $39.95
(1937-Present) Colin Powell was born in Harlem, the son of Jamaican-born immigrants. Powell's career demonstrates that there are no ceilings for those who prepare themselves with persistence for higher positions. 30 minutes.
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#D6607, $39.95
(1919-1972) This biography details the extraordinary life of baseball great Jackie Robinson. 30 minutes.
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#D6608, $39.95
(1797-1883) One of America's first female black activists, Sojourner Truth remains a guiding light to all those who speak out on human rights. 30 minutes.
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#D6609, $39.95
(1820-1913) Risking capture and death, anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman led more slaves to freedom than anyone else in American history. 30 minutes.
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#D6610, $39.95
(1867-1919) Entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker was America's first black self-made millionaire. 30 minutes.
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#D6611, $39.95
(1856-1915) Enslaved until after the Civil War, educator Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential men in black history. His intelligent and peaceful solutions to racial problems won him the support of white society, opening the door to black progress. 30 minutes.
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#D6612, $39.95
(1925-1965) This program presents the turbulent life of black leader Malcolm X. One of the most controversial figures of the 20th century, Malcolm X insisted that blacks battle racial oppression with militant action. 30 minutes.
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#D6614, $39.95
(1942-Present) Born Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali is one of the greatest
boxers of our time. An Olympic Gold medal winner, he then became an unprecedented three-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Ali continues to be a man of inspirational courage, character and conviction. 30 minutes.
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#D6615, $39.95
(1924-1987) Author James Baldwin, the quintessential voice of the
African-American community in the 20th century, was born in Harlem, New York, in an exciting era when a rich black artistic revival was electrifying the ghetto despite the hard times. Through his novels, he showed white America the seething anger racism had created. 30 minutes.
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#D6616, $39.95
(1875-1955) Born in Maysville, South Carolina to parents who had been slaves until the end of the Civil War, educator Mary McLeod Bethune always had a strong determination to read. She devoted her life to creating better educational opportunities for black students. 30 minutes.
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#D6617, $39.95
(1868-1963) W.E.B. Du Bois, a great scholar and activist, earned a degree from Fisk University and a doctorate from Harvard. A teacher and a writer, he predicted bitter class divisions in America and promoted the strong concept of multiculturalism. 30 minutes.
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#D6618, $39.95
(1887-1940) Marcus Garvey preached black separatism. Born in Jamaica, Garvey strove to improve the status of Jamaican blacks. Traveling extensively through Latin America, Europe, Africa and America, he introduced the concept of Pan Africanism - the idea that all black people are one people whose common home is Africa. 30 minutes.
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#D6619, $39.95
(1866-1955) Explorer Matthew Henson got his first taste of travel as a cabin boy on a merchant ship. He and Robert Perry traveled together through Greenland, sharing the common goal - to find the North Pole. 30 minutes.
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#D6620, $39.95
(1902-1967) Poet Langston Hughes attended an all-white school as a child and, feeling lonely and isolated, he turned to reading and writing poetry. Inspired by Carl Sandberg and Walt Whitman, Hughes wrote free verse, using African-American dialects, words and rhythms. 30 minutes.
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#D6621, $39.95
(1897-1975) Elijah Muhammad was a religious leader of the Nation of Islam. As a boy, he witnessed the lynching of a black man by white men, and the experience shaped his life. Muhammad maintained that the conditions for blacks in American society were ultimately the responsibility of blacks, not whites. 30 minutes.
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#D6622, $39.95
(1913-1980) Chronically ill as a child, Jesse Owens turned to athletics as a way to overcome his health problems. A talented runner, Owens began matching and beating several world records in track and field events in his senior year of college. 30 minutes.
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#D6623, $39.95
(1944-Present) Author Alice Walker was a shy child, having been accidentally disfigured at a young age. Developing an extreme awareness and concern for those who suffer, Walker became very active in the civil rights movement. 30 minutes.
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#D6624, $39.95
Lynchings, "Separate but Equal" facilities and Jim Crow Laws provide the realistic backdrop for this insightful and moving visual history of the civil rights movement. 30 minutes.
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#D6625, $39.95
This comprehensive program chronicles the institution of slavery in North America beginning with the notorious "middle passage" from Africa of the 1600s, through Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, emancipation and Reconstruction. 30 minutes.
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...highly recommended...Editor's Choice." - Video Librarian
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