LibGuides: Black History: Women: DVD, Websites, etc.

DVD

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise by Bob Hercules Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
Call Number: DVD PS3551.N464 M39 2017
ISBN: 9781627899871
Publication Date: 2017

Streaming Video

A Bus for Martin Luther King Early 20th century in the U.S. South. Segregation against the black community is rife. The Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws—all this finds form in daily life via ethnic separation in public places, schools, public transport, public drinking fountains, and on and on. In buses, for example, seats at the front are reserved for whites. Rosa Parks, a seamstress, lives in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, and has suffered from this social context ever since childhood. On December 1, 1955, she refuses to obey the driver of the bus she is on and give up her seat to a white passenger as laid down by the law. Arrested and jailed, she becomes the symbol of the Afro-American cause, and a young pastor, Martin Luther King, seizes on the event and starts a boycott of the city’s buses. Demonstrations, speeches—the protest movement grows and grows, and Rosa Parks becomes the “mother of the Civil Rights movement”. The machine is on the move, and nothing can stop it now. On November 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court bans segregationist laws on the buses, declaring them unconstitutional. The “woman who stood up by sitting down” changed the history of the United States.
The Life and Legend of Sojourner Truth As with many historic American figures of the 19th century, Sojourner Truth’s story is incomplete and somewhat mythical, a fact compounded by her having been born a slave. This detailed program traces the lifelong odyssey of a woman who literally walked out of bondage, changed her name in 1843, and traveled the country as an abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. Along the way she would meet Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln and be further cast into fable by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Interviews with scholars and dramatic readings from Truth’s speeches and autobiography conjure more clearly a picture of this truly heroic woman. (57 minutes)