Selected Films
- Fundi: The Story of Ella BakerCall Number: Africana Library Videodisc 301 (Video 549)Profiles the life and work of Ella Baker during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the period of the most dramatic upsurge in the struggle for racial justice. Since Ms. Baker's activism spanned over 50 years in the North and the South, the struggles of earlier decades are portrayed, giving a sense of the continuity of the fight for social change.
- Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa ParksCall Number: Africana Library Video 640Over the course of a year, the Montgomery Bus Boycott would test the endurance of the peaceful protestors, overturn an unjust law and create a legacy of mighty times that continue to inspire those who work for freedom and justice today.
- The Rosa Parks StoryCall Number: Africana Library Videodisc 61Dramatic biography of Rosa McCauley Parks, who in 1955 created the spark that began the modern Civil Rights Movement.
- BoycottCall Number: Africana Library Videodisc 54In the winter of 1955 in the deep south, Rosa Parks, a single black woman on a public bus, is arrested when she chooses a "whites only" seat. Her action and the reaction of the authorities helps birth the modern civil rights movement in the United States, and makes her an inspiring icon and lodestone to all involved with the struggle for equality, including a young Martin Luther King.
- Ida B. Wells: A Passion for JusticeCall Number: Africana Library Videodisc 687Chronicles the life of Ida B. Wells, an early Afro-American activist who protested lynchings, unfair treatment of Afro-American soldiers, and other examples of racism and injustice toward Afro-Americans around the turn of the century.
- 4 Little GirlsCall Number: Africana Library Video 512On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, dynamite planted by the Ku Klux Klan, exploded in the 16th St. Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama. Under the fallen debris, the bodies of four girls were found. Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley died because of the color of their skin. Features archival film footage, home photographs, comments by surviving family members, and interviews with local and national figures of the time.
- A Place of Rage.Call Number: Africana Library Video 80Prominent black women comment upon experiences of Afro-American women, upon racial discrimination and its effects upon the American culture and make suggestions which they hope will improve the future. Includes historical footage of civil rights movement in the 1960's.
- Chisholm '72 Undought & UnbossedCall Number: Africana Library Videodisc 513This documentary follows the 1972 campaign waged by Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman to run for a major party's nomination for United States President. Chisholm first made her mark on American political history when, in 1968, she became the first African-American woman elected to Congress, representing New York.
- 50th Anniversary Conference of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)Call Number: Africana Library Videodisc 591Conference proceedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement.