Civil rights / New age
Program 7: Examines the era of Civil Rights reform and the individuals who spearheaded that reform in literature, sports, legislation, and the law. Program 8: With civil rights legislation and affirmation action black entrepreneurs, athletes, scientists, jurists, and military men rise to the top o...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ambrose Video Publishing,
c2005.
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| Series: | A History of black achievement in America.
A History of black achievement in America. |
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Table of Contents:
- Program 7: Civil Rights
- program 8: New Age.
- Program 7. 1950: Ralph Bunche wins the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1950: Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first Black recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
- 1954: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
- 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery bus
- 1956: Althea Gibson, first Black woman to win a tennis grand slam event
- 1959: Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the sun is produced
- 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his I Have a Dream speech.
- Program 8. 1967: Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army on religious grounds
- 1967: Thurgood Marshall first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice
- 1977: Alex Haley's Roots: the saga of an American family appears on TV
- 2001: Colin Powell appointed Secretary of State
- 2004: Neil deGrasse Tyson becomes Astrophysics' superstar.
