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Power! 1967-1968
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The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins election as the first black mayor of a major American city. The Black Panther Party,...
The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins election as the first black mayor of a major American city. The Black Panther Party, armed with law books, breakfast programs, and guns, is born in Oakland. Substandard teaching practices prompt parents to gain educational control of a Brooklyn school district but then lead them to a showdown with New York City's teachers' union.
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- Creator
- Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2014], c1994
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (57 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn898135117
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on October 26, 2014.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- Challenging Race Relations (1:27) -- Carl Stokes' Campaign (3:45) -- Primary Election (3:08) -- Raising the Race Issue (5:16) -- Cleveland's First Black Mayor (5:10) -- Black Panther Party (2:25) -- Confronting Government Racism (1:54) -- Challenging Nonviolence (2:34) -- Challenging Law Enforcement (3:34) -- African-American Revolution (2:23) -- Free Huey Campaign (1:43) -- Struggle for Empowerment (2:17) -- Improving African-American Education (3:24) -- Ocean Hill-Brownsville Controversy (5:09) -- Teaching African-American Roots (3:31) -- Black-Jewish Antagonism (2:34) -- Ending Community Controlled Education (3:53) -- Credits: Power! 1967-1968: Eyes on the Prize-America's Civil Rights Movement 1954 - 1985 (1:33)