Descendants of African-Americans who began their lives in America as kidnapped slaves were then deprived of civil rights by "Jim Crow" laws. Leaders inspired others to overcome racial prejudice and legal obstacles. These stories highlight the ups and downs of black history.
Hiram Rhodes Revels - the first African-American to serve in the U.
"Race," a film about Jesse Owens, highlights the events of 1936. One of the world's greatest-ever athletes tells us what it was like to represent his ...
On the 11th of June, 1963, President Kennedy gave a speech on civil rights.
This clip is the second part of President Kennedy's speech on civil rights which he gave on June 11, 1963.
If the President and the Constitution seem to differ, the Supreme Court decides who will prevail. On two separate days in 1841 - the 24th of February ...
On the 24th of September, 1957, President Eisenhower dispatched paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas.
Dr. King gives his powerful, transforming ''I Have a Dream'' speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
Medgar Evers was the NAACP's field secretary in Jackson, Mississippi.
Medgar Evers was fatally shot by Byron de la Beckwith.
In this video clip, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers plays the trumpet, then the cello, in a duet with Joanne Pearce-Martin, principal keyboardist with the Los...
This government-produced documentary - entitled "Negro Pilots" - introduces the American public to the first graduates of the Tuskegee Institute's mil...
This hauntingly beautiful work for cello, composed by the great cello virtuoso Pablo Casals, is entitled "Song of the Birds.
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