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Maya Angelou’s Journey: Writing and Civil Rights
This video explores Maya Angelou’s time as a dancer, her global travels, and her decision to pursue writing. It highlights her experiences with the Harlem Writers Guild, her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, and the...
Curated Video
Richard Wright
At a time when Jim Crow laws made racial segregation legal across much of the United States, author Richard Wright gave voice to a struggle – as the first African American author to achieve widespread critical and commercial success.
National Cable Satellite Corporation
C Span: American Writers: James Baldwin
An extensive video biography of writer James Baldwin. [02:00:00]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Preaching the Gospel of the Revolution: American Masters
James Baldwin was living in France in 1957 when he heard about Dorothy Counts, a black American teenager who was spat on after enrolling at an all-white North Carolina high school. He immediately vowed to return to the United States to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Writer in the Making: American Masters
Renowned novelist and activist James Baldwin laid the foundation for his lifetime of achievement during his childhood in 1930s Harlem. Baldwin spent countless hours in the 135th Street Public Library, soaking up as much knowledge as he...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: All Men Are Brothers: American Masters
This video [3:38] segment from American Masters' James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket illustrates the activist's intolerance for violence or racial hatred expressed by anyone, black or white. In the mid-1960s, Baldwin's principles put...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Take This Hammer
In this video [1:55] segment from "Take this Hammer," a 1963 film from THIRTEEN's archive, activist and author James Baldwin seeks to raise morale among a group of African American adolescents in San Francisco in the early 1960s. Baldwin...