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Series
Great Courses volume 8
Language
English
Description
Explore the indelible linguistic effects of the peoples of African descent who were brought to America as slaves, who went on to develop a richly expressive language variety that today is emulated by young people across the world-African American English. Contrary to common misunderstandings, this well-studied dialect is governed by intricate and consistent rules.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Physical Desc
1 video disc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This history of Spelman College, a private, liberal arts, women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia, was issued on the college's 125th anniversary. A historically black college, Spelman was founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary. Today the college is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in Atlanta
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1955, when racial segregation defined the South, two groups of twelve-year-old boys stepped onto a baseball field in a non-violent act of cultural defiance that would change the course of history.
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harlem Rising is a feature-length documentary tracing the fifty-year history of the Harlem Children's Zone through folks in the community who grew up with the organization.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Heartbreak and hope are as inextricably linked in professional baseball as hot dogs and scorecards. So much drama in major league baseball is derived from spectacular plays, crushing losses, defying the odds, and magical moments that live forever in the hearts and minds of devoted fans. What fans often forget is the relentless grind of the farm system-the minor leagues-where hundreds of college ballplayers must first prove their mettle before receiving...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (530 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stonewall uprising: Featuring archival footage and interviews with those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists, and a former mayor of New York City, this program revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout the United States, and homosexuality itself was considered a mental illness. On June 28, 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, gay men...
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