Monday, April 30, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
George Wallace and Civil Rights
George Wallace's Segregation Forever Speech
James Hood: Breaking Barriers
James Hood: Breaking Barriers
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
1920s Music
Mamie Smith's "Crzy Blues"
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Duke Ellington and Harlem's Cotton Club
King Oliver's "West End Blues"
Fletcher Henderson and "Sugarfoot Stomp"
King Vidor's "Hallelujah!"
Paul Robeson's "All God's Chillun Got Wings"
Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle"s "Shuffle Along"
Blake and Sissle
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Duke Ellington and Harlem's Cotton Club
King Oliver's "West End Blues"
Fletcher Henderson and "Sugarfoot Stomp"
King Vidor's "Hallelujah!"
Paul Robeson's "All God's Chillun Got Wings"
Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle"s "Shuffle Along"
Blake and Sissle
Friday, February 24, 2012
Harlem Hellfighters Documentary and Film
The posts below are archival films from the Department of the Army.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
1950s America

Thurgood Marshall standing at the left and Charles H. Houston seated at the right.

An anti-Warren billboard following Brown.

Chief Justic Earl Warren.

An anti-Brown propaganda flier probably published by the Sovereignty Commission.

The all-white jury that acquitted the murderers of Emmet Till.

The headlines speak for themselves

Martin Luther King under arrest during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Booking Rosa Parks in the opening days of the boycott.

Reverend Ralph Abernathy helped Martin Luther King establish the SCLC and was its first Vice-President.

Originally members of he Arkansas National Guard prevented the integration of Central High in Little Rock.

A member of the "Little Rock Nine" suffers abuse from the flower of Southern womanhood.


President Eisenhower nationalized the Arkansas National Guard and ordered in the 101st Airborne to protect the black students attempting to integrate Central High.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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