1877-1964

Eyewitness accounts of three decades of civil rights history.

Explores the experience of African-Americans in the United States from 1948 through 1956, a time that encompassed the integration of the military and the beginnings of the civil rights movement.

Looks at the situation of African-Americans from 1877 to 1895 when federal troops withdrew from the South and left the newly-freed slaves at the mercy of slaveholders who enacted laws enforcing segregation.

Surveys the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its achievements in the civil rights movement.

Describes conditions in the United States for African Americans in the 1950s and the heroic struggle for equal rights that originated with the Civil Rights leaders who emerged during the period.

Describes the experiences of African Americans in the South, from the Emancipation in 1863 to the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared school segregation illegal.

Describes the time period known as the Harlem Renaissance, during which African American artists, poets, writers, thinkers, and musicians flourished in Harlem, New York.

Examines the Harlem Renaissance, discussing how the cultural movement produced some of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century.

Uses the experiences of two individuals, Ada "Bricktop" Smith and Joe Jones, to present the story of the Great Migration of Southern Blacks to northern cities from the late 1800s to the years after World War I.