afro-americans

An illustrated version of the song that has come to be considered the African American national anthem.

Set in the poverty-stricken South of 1933, tells the story of a Black family's struggle to hold onto the land they have owned for three generations.

A biography of Amos Fortune, born the son of an African chief, but captured at 15 and sold as a slave in Massachusetts, where he purchased his freedom when he was sixty years old and became a respected citizen.

Follows the life of one of America's first black poets from her sale as a child slave on the Boston auction block to her death as an impoverished freedwoman in 1784.

Brief biographies of ten African Americans including C.G. Woodson, Dorothy Height, Thurgood Marshall, Charlemae Rollins, and Alex Haley. With a skit about each to be acted out.

A collection of more than two dozen songs sung by African American slaves.

Examines the life and basketball career of the high-scoring player with the Chicago Bulls, who made a brief attempt to play minor league baseball in 1994.