Philadelphia, Pa. : Scribe Video Center San Francisco, Calif. : distributed by California Newsreel , 1997, c1996.
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- DVD.
- Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, Amiri Baraka, narrators.
- Directors of photographs, Michael Chin, Arthur Jafa, Larry Banks editor, Monica Henriquez graphic animation and design, Beth Warshafsky film animation, Lewis Klahr composers, Dwight Andrew, Dave Burrell, David Murray.
- Originally released as a VHS cassette in 1996.
- Chronicles DuBois’ role as a founder of the NAACP, organizer of the first Pan-African Congress, editor of the Crisis, a leading journal of the Black cultural renaissance, and author of a string of landmark books and sociological studies, including The souls of Black folk. –container.
- Part One: Black Folk and the New Century (1895-1915) Dubois first’ sociological work, The Philadelphia Negro, and, even more, The Souls of Black Folk, examined the cultural and political psychology of the American African Diaspora. During the same period, racism was institutionalized under the Jim Crow system. Du Bois emerged as the most outspoken critic of Booker T. Washington’s advocacy of accommodation to segregation. He co-founded the Niagara Movement and then the NAACP to agitate for full equality between blacks and whites. Part Two: The Crisis and the New Negro (1919-1929) DuBois created the NAACP’s magazine, The Crisis, which became a vital organ in the burgeoning African American cultural movement, the Harlem Renaissance. Du Bois also was a founder of the Pan African movement, organizing the first international congresses of leaders from Africa and the Diaspora. Part Three: A Second Reconstruction? (1934-1948) dismiissed from the editorship of The Crisis for his radical views, Du Bois was forced to resume his academic career at age 68. It was now the Depression and he became more open to leftist ideology as reflected in his magnum opus, Black Reconstruction. Part Four: Color, Democracy, Colonies and Peace (1949-1963) Du Bois’ continuing anti-racist activism and growing leftist sympathies made him a target during the McCarthy years. He was indicted and for a time his passport was revoked. In 1961, Kwame Nkrumah, the president of the newly independent African state of Ghana, invited him to participate in that country’s development Du Bois accepted, living there for the remainder of his life.
- Black folk in the new century, 1895-1915 / narrated by Wesley Brown — The Crisis and the new Negro, 1919-1929 / written and narrated by Thulani Davis — A second Reconstruction? : 1934-1948 / written and narrated by Toni Cade Bambara — Color & democracy : colonies and peace 1949-1963 / written and narrated by Amiri Baraka.
Subjects:
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
- African Americans — Biography.
- African Americans — Civil rights.
- Civil rights movements — United States — History.
- Documentary films. lcgft
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