Lectures tagged "African American History"

Forgotten 5th: African Americans in the Age of Revolution
Gary Nash
June 15, 2006
00:38:18
Gary Nash, professor of history emeritus at UCLA, explains how revolutionary fervor spiraled into the largest slave rebellion in American history. When the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American.
Callie House: My Face is Black is True
Mary Frances Berry
September 14, 2005
00:50:06
Mary Francis Berry reclaims Callie House, a magnificent heroine who, though so long forgotten that the site of her grave is unknown, emerges as a pioneering activist: a female forerunner of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Memory of the Slave Trade in New England
Beverly Morgan-Welch
April 23, 2004
02:12:53
A panel discusses the way New England's pride in its abolitionist heritage has obscured the presence of slavery in the region for over 200 years, from its first founding to the institution's ultimate demise through schemes of gradual emancipation.