In this program, narrated by actress Pam Grier and featuring Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, interviews with academic experts plus contemporaries such as Studs Terkel, Martin Duberman, Pete Seeger, Lloyd Brown, Glyn Roberts, Mark Naison, John Lewis, and Oscar Brown, Jr., bring to life a complex man whose political views overshadowed his achievements in the eyes of many Americans. The program presents Paul Robeson—star athlete, world-renowned singer and actor, enemy of segregation, and Communist sympathizer—through the eyes of those who knew him. (59 minutes)
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Item#: MGH8755
Copyright date: ©1998
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-5699-6
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Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino
Luis Valdez is the celebrated founder of the Teatro Campesino, the West Coast theatrical group that has given voice to the struggles of Chicano farm workers. As a child, Valdez picked fruit alongside his father in California's fertile valleys. In thi...(more details) |
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Found Voices: The Slave Narratives
How did it feel to be bought and sold like cattle, only to be liberated with nowhere to go and no one to turn to for help? In this profoundly moving program, Ted Koppel of ABC News presents the African-American slave experience in the voices of those...(more details) |
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Writing Women's Lives
They come from diverse backgrounds and represent a cross-section of global culture, yet they all share a passion for the written word. In this documentary, authors Gloria Steinem, Doris Lessing, Amy Tan, Isabel Allende, Bharati Mukherjee, Harriet Doe...(more details) |
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Memories of Anne Frank
In this program filmed in the Franks' apartment and the building that housed the Opecta offices and the Franks' secret refuge, Miep Gies vividly recounts her experiences: working for Otto Frank; bringing food to the fugitives; the chilling expose of ...(more details) |
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Duke Ellington's Washington: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Neighborhood
During the early 20th century, Washington, D.C., was the cultural capital of black America. Prefiguring Harlem in the 1920s, D.C.'s Uptown area nurtured dynamic figures such as Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Mary Church Terrell, Justice Thurgood Ma...(more details) |
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