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African Americans: History and Culture: DVDs

This library guide is designed to help you do research using resources available at the LPC Library on the history and culture of African Americans.

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Use OneSearch to find more DVDs and videos in the library.

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Examples: 

  • jazz and videorecording
  • african americans and videorecording

Check Out DVDs

DVDs are shelved along the north wall of the library.  The circulation desk staff will pull the discs when you are ready to check them out.

DVDs have a one-week loan period.

Online Videos

American History in Video - This collection of videos on American history topics can be viewed online on campus as well as from home.  African American film titles include Citizen King, Jazz, The Long Walk to Freedom, Voices of Civil Rights, America Beyond the Color Line, etc.

When using from off campus, be sure to login with your W# and Class-Web password.

DVDs

A sample of documentaries and films available in the LPC Library:

Black/White & Brown: Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka DVD KF228 B76 B53 2009

Dark Passages DVD HT871 D28 2006

Eyes on the Prize DVD E185.615 E942 2006

Harriet Tubman: Antislavery Activist DVD E444 T82 T37 2007

A History of the Civil Rights Movement DVD E185.61 H57 2007

Jacob Lawrence: the Glory of Expression DVD ND1839 L36 J33 2006

Langston Hughes DVD PS3515 U274 L36 2007

Martin Luther King, Jr. DVD E185.97 K5 B68 2005

Merritt College: Home of the Black Panthers DVD E185.65 M47 2008

That's Black Entertainment DVD PN1996.9 W4 T43 2006 PT. 1-3Slavery and the Making of AmericaDVD E441.S53 2004

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson DVD GV1196.J64.U54 2005

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