-John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and his trial |
-Plessy vs. Ferguson and the rise of Jim Crow in America |
-N.W.A. fights mainstream music to bring legitimacy to "Gangsa Rap" |
-The story of Martin Luther King |
-Sojourner Truth Speaks out |
-The beating and lynching of Emmett Till |
-The story of Ella Baker |
-George Washington Carver, the genius of Tuskegee |
-Harriet Tubman leads slaves out of bondage |
--Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas and school desegregation |
-The Story of the Trailways/Greyhound Freedom Rides |
-Garrett Morgan, inventor and activist |
-Denmark Vesey plots a slave insurrection, and/or his trial when it was foiled |
--Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson and the Montgomery Bus boycott |
-The Story of the lunch counter sit-ins |
-The murder of Civil Rights worker Medgar Evers |
-The great Nat Turner rebellion |
-the Brownsville Affair and the unfair discharge of Black soldiers |
-The Port Chicago disaster |
-The Selma church bombing |
-Frederick Douglass fights slavery and racism |
-champion boxer Jack Johnson and a hostile world |
-The story of the Tuskegee Airmen |
-Billie Holiday- Lady Day sings "strange fruit" |
-Congress debates the 3/5 Compromise |
- OF Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League Baseball |
-The story of the Buffalo Soldiers |
-The powerful life of Louis Armstrong |
-Averting Civil War with the Missouri Compromise |
-- the unfair prosecution of the Scottsboro boys |
-The Story of the case of Loving vs Virginia and an end to the banning of inter-racial marriages |
-America's first black comedy star: Bert Williams |
-William Lloyd Garrison's fight for racial and gender equality |
--Jesse Owens and his triumph in the "Nazi" Olympics |
-Muhammad Ali against the world |
-Reginald Lewis and how to make a billion |
-Harriet Beecher Stowe comes to write UNCLE TOM'S CABIN based upon her experiences in Southern Ohio |
-Joe Louis and his bout with "Nazi" boxing champ Max Schmelling |
-The fight of Fannie Lou Hamer in the Jim Crow south |
-The rise of Ben Carson |
-Abe Lincoln meets with black leaders about a return to Africa |
-the Black Panthers and black power |
-A. Philip Randolph and the Pullman Strike |
-The Story of the Nation of Islam from Farad to Farrakhan |
-Aboard a slave ship |
-OF the short, powerful life of Tupac Shakur |
-Paul Robeson fights the House on Un American Activities |
-Black athletes/black power at the Olympics in Mexico City |
-The defense of the slaves who took over the slave ship Amistad by John Quincy Adams |
-The controversy of Bill Cosby |
-The Michael Jackson story |
-Madam C.J. Walker self-made millionaire |
-Black cowboys and pioneers |
-Marcus Garvey and UNIA fighting for African solidarity |
-Trayvon Martin and racial profiling in Florida |
-Gordon Parks, pioneer of black photography and film |
-Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre |
-An argument between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois |
-The Watts Riots in Los Angeles |
-Morgan Freeman and the end of "black" history |
-Blacks in the American Revolution |
-Malcolm X confronts Elijah Muhammad (or argues with Martin Luther King) |
-The Hough Riots in Cleveland |
-Lebron James from poverty to superstardom |
-Phillis Wheatley, American Poet |
-Mary McLeod Bethune meets Eleanor Roosevelt and becomes a force for equality |
-The troubles in Ferguson, MO. |
-Hattie McDaniel makes acting Mammy into an art form |
- William Still and the Underground Railroad |
-The Shirley Chisholm story |
-The shooting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland |
-Sidney Poitier breaks through the color barrier to stardom |
-Dred Scott pleads for his freedom before the Supreme Court |
-Oprah Winfrey creates a media empire |
-The story of Barak Obama |
-Nina Simone and a voice of equality |
-Beyonce and Kanye West go at it |
|