DVD
2 of 2 Copies Available
- ALMA POWELL: Audiovisual Collection
- CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
The African Americans : many rivers to cross
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publication Information
Boston : PBS Distribution, [2014]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Explore the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed-forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally broadcast on PBS in 2013.
Contents
- Black Atlantic (1500-1800)
- Age of slavery (1800-1860)
- Into the fire (1861-1896)
- Making a way out of no way (1897-1940)
- Rise! (1940-1968)
- It's nation time (1968-2013).