A History of Black Achievement in America

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This original, eight-part series documents Black Achievement in American history, its defining role in the growth of the country, and its influence on current events

This original, eight-part series documents Black Achievement in American history, its defining role in the growth of the country, and its influence on current events. Presented by James Avery, the series highlights the many contributions of Black Americans that have influenced our culture, enriched our society with their achievements, and shaped the history of the United States. It's one of the least known stories in American history. It is the story of black achievement and accomplishment. Against all odds, American blacks have built their own institutions: families, schools, churches and businesses. Against all odds, American blacks have created great art and science.... Fought heroically in every American war. Against all odds, black men and women have worked endlessly to secure their own freedom and equality. The untold Story of blacks in America is a 350-year saga of incredible achievements. This is that story.

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Settling the New World and the Founding of the United States30 minutes$3.99
1619-1621 Blacks Arrive at Jamestown6 minutes$1.99
1705 The Virginia General Assembly Passes the Slave Codes7 minutes$1.99
1762 Entrepreneur Samuel Fraunces Opens New York City's Most cherished Revolutionary War Site: The F3 minutes$1.99
1770 Crispus Attucks and the Black Patriots5 minutes$1.99
Emergence of the Black Hero28 minutes$3.99
1772 - Chicago is Settled by Jean DuSable4 minutes$1.99
1776 - Lemuel Haynes Helps Lay the Foundation for Abolition5 minutes$1.99
1791 - The First Black Man of Science, Benjamin Banneker, Surveys Washington, D.C.2 minutes$1.99
1821 - African Grove Theatre Founded in New York3 minutes$1.99
1822 - Denmark Vesey and the Slave Revolts3 minutes$1.99
1823 - Legendary Mountain Man James Beckwourth Enters the Rockies2 minutes$1.99
1849 - Harriet Tubman Uses Underground Railroad to Become Free3 minutes$1.99
The Fight for Freedom27 minutes$3.99
1851 - Sojourner Truth Delivers Famous "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech3 minutes$1.99
1854 - First Black University Founded: Lincoln University3 minutes$1.99
1855 - Frederick Douglass Publishes My Bondage and My Freedom4 minutes$1.99
1857 - Dred Scott Decision Helps Trigger the Civil War3 minutes$1.99
1863 - Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation3 minutes$1.99
1863 - Black Regiment Storms Fort Wagner in the Civil War4 minutes$1.99
1865 - 1869-- 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments Establish Civil Rights for All2 minutes$1.99
Blacks Enter the Gilded Age28 minutes$3.99
1875 - Robert Smalls, Former Slave, Elected to House3 minutes$1.99
1878 - The Black Cowboy and George McJunkin4 minutes$1.99
1881 - Booker T. Washington Opens Tuskegee Institute3 minutes$1.99
1884 - T. Thomas Fortune Prophesies the Long and Bitter Struggle for Equality3 minutes$1.99
1887 - Granville T. Woods, Called the "Black Edison," Patents the Induction Telegraph System3 minutes$1.99
1893 - Ida B. Wells-Barnett Crusades Against Black Lynching in America4 minutes$1.99
1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson Case Upholds Segregation3 minutes$1.99
The Foundation for Equality28 minutes$3.99
1904 - Scott Joplin and Ma Rainey Initiate the Merger of Two Cultures4 minutes$1.99
1909 - Matthew Henson Discovers the North Pole5 minutes$1.99
1909 - W.E.B. Du Bois Founds the NAACP3 minutes$1.99
1924 - George Washington Carver, Renaissance Man4 minutes$1.99
1925 - Alain Locke Leads Harlem Renaissance4 minutes$1.99
1926 - Satchel Paige Stars in the National Negro Baseball League3 minutes$1.99
Depression and War27 minutes$3.99
1935 - Mary McLeod Bethune: American Woman of the 20th Century4 minutes$1.99
1936-38 - Jesse Owens And Joe Louis debunk Hitler's Claim of Aryan superiority3 minutes$1.99
1939 - Hattie McDaniel Wins the Oscar4 minutes$1.99
1940 - First Black General, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., is Stepping Stone to Desegregation of U.S. Army6 minutes$1.99
1943 - Duke Ellington's Band Performs "Black, Brown and Beige" at Carnegie Hall4 minutes$1.99
Civil Rights28 minutes$3.99
1950 - Ralph Bunche Wins the Nobel Peace Prize4 minutes$1.99
1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks Becomes the First Black Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize3 minutes$1.99
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas3 minutes$1.99
1955 - Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat to a White Passenger on a Montgomery Bus2 minutes$1.99
1956 - Althea Gibson, First Black Woman To Win a Tennis Grand Slam Event2 minutes$1.99
1959 - Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun is Produced5 minutes$1.99
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers His I have a Dream Speech3 minutes$1.99
A New Age27 minutes$3.99
1967 - Muhammad Ali Refuses Induction into the U.S. Army on Religious Grounds6 minutes$1.99
1967 - Thurgood Marshall, First Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice4 minutes$1.99
1977 - Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of An American Family Appears on TV5 minutes$1.99
2001 - Colin Powell Appointed Secretary of State4 minutes$1.99
2004 - Neil deGrasse Tyson Becomes Astrophysics' Superstar5 minutes$1.99
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