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Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas, a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the acclaimed movie, this is an episodic series that tells the story of a group of black students navigating the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as post-racial as it thinks.
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches
Description
Mike Anderson is a senior at the quintessential New-England liberal arts school, Frost College. And Mike is eight weeks away from graduation. On this particular day he has his African-American literature class with his favorite professor. But today, Mike is feeling sadness. He's feeling isolated. He's feeling angry.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
198 p. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1968 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
Publisher
Sony Pictures TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the death of his younger brother D.J., a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. His efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he discovers 'stepping,' a traditional dance performed by African-American fraternities. He soon finds himself in the middle of a fierce rivalry between the top two campus...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
320 pages cm
Description
"The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen "Negro" boys as an experiment, an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent Garrett, began to reconnect with his classmates...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
143 pages : black & white illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome...
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