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African American History

Resources focusing on Americans that are part of the African Diaspora and their historical experiences.

Film List

Professor Lockwood's list of films. Most of these films are in the Erie Community College Libraries collection.

A Raisin in the Sun
Call Number: PN1997 .R235 1999

ISBN: B00003L9CK

The play "A Raisin in the Sun" was the first realistic portrayal of a contemporary black American family during the civil rights era.
A Soldier's Story
Call Number: DVD PS3556 .U367 S6 1999

ISBN: 076782458X

World War II murder of an African American soldier near his base.
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Amazing Grace
Call Number: DVD PN1995.9.B55 A439 2007

ISBN: B000VNMMQG

Based on the life of William Wilberforce--his passion and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade.
Amistad
Call Number: DVD PN1995.9.H5 A458 1999

ISBN: 0783231202

1839 revolt aboard a slave ship and trial that followed.
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Call Number: DVD PS3557.A355 A85 2004

ISBN: 0738930938

Cecily Tyson as a woman born a slave in 1851 who lived to see the civil rights era.
Beloved
Call Number: Book at PS3563.O8749 B4 1998b

ISBN: 0788815474

A slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter. Based on book by Toni Morrison.
Boycott
ISBN: 0783118376

Martin Luther King and the Montgomery bus boycott of the 1950s.
Four Little Girls
ISBN: 0783118155

Spike Lee's documentary on the 1963 bombing of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Glory
ISBN: 0800177967

Based on true story of the first all African American regiment in the U.S.Army, fighting for the Union during the Civil War.
Great Debaters
ISBN: 1594450277

Denzel Washington as professor Melvin Tolson, whose African American debate team from Wiley College in Texas rose to national prominence.
Great White Hope
ISBN: B00066FABM

James Earl Jones as boxer Jack Jefferson dealing with racism in the early twentieth century. Based on life of Jack Johnson.
Hart's War
ISBN: 0792852885

A law student defends an African American POW falsely accused of murder.
Having Our Say
Call Number: Book at City and North E185.96 .D37 1993; South E185.96 .D37 1994c

ISBN: B0088XQFB4

The Delany Sisters reminisce about their remarkable lives.
Heaven's Fall
ISBN: B000UVKHNY

The case of the Scottsboro Nine in 1933.
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
ISBN: 0783116748

Halle Berry as the first African American woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.
Joe and Max
ISBN: 1404908609

Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, German boxer who was his opponent and friend.
Josephine Baker Story
African American who became an iconic star in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s.
Lackawanna Blues
ISBN: 0783134827

Reuben Santiago-Hudson's story of a struggling African American community during the segregation era.
Malcolm X
ISBN: 0790792214

Through his religious conversion to Islam, Malcolm X rose up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
Men of Honor
ISBN: B00003CXPP

Carl Brashear, first African American U.S.Navy diver.
Miracle at St. Anna
ISBN: 0788892487

Four African American "Buffalo Soldiers" trapped in a Tuscan village in World War II.
Miss Evers' Boys
ISBN: 0783120117

True story of the U.S. Government's 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis experiments.
Mississippi Burning
ISBN: 0792849493

Two FBI agents go to Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of civil rights activists.
Queen
ISBN: 0790776006

Alex Haley's story of the daughter of a plantation owner and a slave.
Roots
ISBN: B00005QW6Y

Blockbuster 1977 TV series, Alex Haley's family story from Kunta Kinte through 6 generations.
Rosa Parks Story
ISBN: B00006LPHJ

Angela Bassett as the civil rights pioneer and heroine.
Silverado
ISBN: B001LMAK88

1984 western. Four men fight to bring peace to the town of Silverado. Danny Glover as Mal.
Tuskegee Airmen
ISBN: 0783118147

Laurence Fishburne stars in historical drama about the first African American pilots in the U.S.Military.

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