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Classroom | The Subjugation of African Americans

The segment provides an overview of the demonization of African Americans following the Emancipation Proclamation and the propaganda campaign that served to reinforce Jim Crow with stereotypes. This video is an excerpt from Episode Four, Making a Way Out of No Way, from the series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Length 03:19 Premiere: 11/12/13

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

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Classroom | Black Power: Demanding a Brilliant Future

Length 05:17 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | Black is Beautiful: Afrocentricity

Length 04:42 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom| The Rise of the Black Middle Class

Length 04:46 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | Casualties of the War on Drugs

Length 05:12 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | Fighting the Power: Hip Hop

Length 06:47 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | The Limits of Rights: Economic Injustice

Length 04:08 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | Yes We Can: Barack Obama

Length 06:23 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | Preparing for Sit-Ins

Length 03:28 Premiere Date 11/19/13

Classroom | Ruby Bridges

Length 03:28 Premiere Date 11/19/13

Classroom | Rosa Parks

Length 04:01 Premiere Date 11/19/13

Classroom | The Great Migration

Length 01:44 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | Life After the Emancipation Proclamation

Length 04:33 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | Separate and Unequal

Length 06:30 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | The Subjugation of African Americans

Length 03:19 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | Resenting Prosperity and Equality

Length 06:07 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | A Calculated Act

Length 03:46 Premiere Date 11/05/13

Classroom | The Cotton Gin

Length 03:58 Premiere Date 10/29/13

Classroom | Nat Turner Rebellion

Length 02:59 Premiere Date 10/29/13

Classroom | Frederick Douglass

Premiere Date 10/29/13

Classroom | Fugitive Slave Act

Premiere Date 10/29/13

Classroom | Creative Resistance

Length 01:10 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Classroom | St. Augustine, Florida

Length 03:44 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Classroom | Hutchinson's Rebellion

Length 04:01 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Classroom | St. Domingue

Length 02:27 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Classroom | Haitian Carnival

Length 02:09 Premiere Date 10/22/13

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