A Celebration of Black History
A Celebration Of Black History
February is Black History Month. This collection commemorates some of the notable figures and extraordinary events that have helped shape ...
Rep. John Lewis: "It Is Still Unreal." (Clip)
Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, a longtime leader of the civil rights struggle, talks about what bearing witness to the swearing-in of ...
NBC News Calls Election for Barack Obama (Clip)
NBC's Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw announce Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Barack Obama's Speech on Race (Clip)
Barack Obama speaks about the role race has played in his presidential campaign, the criticism of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and his own ...
Historically Black Schools Begin to Recruit White and Latino Students (Clip)
As the opportunities increase for blacks to attend a wide variety of colleges and universities, attendance at historically black colleges ...
James Meredith Remembers (Clip)
The first black man to attend the University of Mississippi returns to campus for an unveiling of a civil rights memorial, and remembers ...
The Struggle for School Integration (Clip)
This NBC documentary charts the lengthy struggle for school desgregation in America, from the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 ...
Significance of Brown v. Board of Education (Clip)
The landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that "separate educational facilities are ...
President George W. Bush Visits Slave House (Clip)
President George W. Bush visits the "Slave House" in Senegal, invoking America's bloody history in the African slave trade.
Rise of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Clip)
Shortly after the Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses were unconstitutional, NBC's Martin ...
Ernest Green's Story: Integrating Central High School (Clip)
Ernest Green is the first black student to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Green looks back at the first days ...
Arrest of Rosa Parks Sparks Boycott (Clip)
NBC's Lester Holt revisits the story of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. ...
419 Slaves Laid to Rest in Modern Day New York City (Clip)
Thousands gather at the site of a colonial-era African burial ground in Lower Manhattan to finally lay to rest the remains of 419 slaves ...
Audio Interview with Former Slave Fountain Hughes (Clip)
Fountain Hughes, a 101-year old former slave, talks about the suffering he experienced as a boy.