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Sisters in the Struggle: Women in the Civil Rights Movement
October 21, 2010
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Judy Richardson and Janet Jemmott Moses, two remarkable women who served on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement discuss Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, which contains intense stories of 52 courageous women in this monumental struggle for social change. Richardson's lucrative producing career includes Henry Hampton's Eyes on the Prize to the Museum of African American History's introductory film, Building on a Firm Foundation. Moses was an organizer in Mississippi during the movement and went on to become a pediatrician.

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African Meeting House Rededication Ceremony, Boston, Part 1
Beverly Morgan-Welch
00:54:54
The African Meeting House, located in Beacon Hill, Boston, was built in 1806 by skilled African-American craftsmen, and was the center of Boston's African-American community for nearly one hundred years.
Isabel Wilkerson: Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
00:55:23
Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson discusses her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.
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Generations of Social Justice
Xernona Clayton
00:29:24
This program invites two individuals, Xerona Clayton who worked with Dr Martin Luther King 50 years ago and today is the president of the foundation that presents the Trumpet Awards, a prestigious award ceremony which recognizes African American accomplishments and is sponsored by the Turner Broadca
Henry Louis Gates and Ilan Stavans: Culture Wars and the Canon
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
01:06:00
Two leading cultural thinkers, Ilan Stavans and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., discuss Latino and African American relationships in the U.S.
John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison
John Callahan
00:49:33
Editors John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting.
US Supreme Court and Race
Randall Kennedy
01:07:00
Two Harvard legal scholars discuss the complex and often misunderstood history of how decisions by the United States Supreme Court have affected the legal status of racial minorities in America, and ask if the Supreme Court has been a friend or a foe to African Americans.
Image of Sisters in the Struggle : African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
Author: V.P. Franklin
Publisher: NYU Press (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 376 pages

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