Representation Matters: Lived Experiences of People of Color

The Untold Story of Emmett Till

http://www.emmetttillstory.com/

From the site: "Emmett Louis Till was born in 1941 and was brutally killed in 1955. He was only 14 years old. The African American kid was murdered in Mississippi, after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in her family's store."

The film, directed by Keith Beauchamp, was created as a documentary and aims to underline the savage profile of the USA in terms of mentality back then.

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

"Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. The series explores 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."

Available for purchase on the PBS Website.

Slavery By Another Name The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

By Douglas A. Blackmon

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the “Age of Neoslavery,” the American period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts, mostly black men, were “leased” through forced labor camps operated by state and federal governments."

Great Speeches by African Americans

Edited by James Daley

"Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other influential figures in the history of African-American culture and politics."