Recorded by Ma Rainey on October 15, 1924 in New York City with her Georgia Jazz Band. Ma Rainey's Georgia Jazz Band included on this recording: Howard Scott on cornet, Charlie Green on trombone, Don Redman on clarinet, Fletcher Henderson on piano and Kaiser Marshall on drums.

This documentary (1957) produced by the Southern Educational Film Production Service explores everyday aspects of the life of a rural black family in Gainesville, Georgia.

In this sermon Dr. King reflects on the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement and his time in Montgomery, Alabama.

This documentary by Andover Productions (1960) highlights the efforts of the civil rights movement at the end of the 1950's. Includes an interview with Robert Williams, and rallies in Montgomery, Ala. Brooklyn, N.Y., and Washington D.C.

40 years ago (1967), this short newsreel clip showed Nigeria engaged in civil war. The Republic of Biafra was a short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria. It existed from May 30, 1967 to January 15, 1970.

50 years ago (1957), this newsreel showed the ceremony as the people of the former British colony the Gold Coast celebrated the new African state of Ghana.

This is a part of an interview with former slave Mrs. Laura Smalley of Hempstead, Texas (1941). Interview conducted by Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Faulk. This interview is part of the Library of Congress American Memory Collection: Voices From the Days of Slavery (Former Slaves Tell Their Stories), available online.

In the cartoon "Angel Puss" (1944) a little black boy is hired to kill a cat, but the feline escapes and proceeds to play tricks on the kid, pretending he's a ghost come back to haunt his "killer."

This PDF file is an FBI directive distributed by letter dated August 25, 1967. In the letter 23 field offices were advised by of a new Counterintelligence Program (COINTERPRO) designed to neutralize militant black nationalists and prevent violence on their part. Goals of this program are to prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups, prevent the rise of a leader who might unify and electrify these violence-prone elements, prevent these militants from gaining respectability and prevent the growth of thse groups among America's youth.

COINTELPRO was broadly targeted against organizations that were (at the time) considered to have politically radical elements, including non-violent civil rights groups such as Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and African-American nationalist groups (including the Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam)

The conclusion of "HUEY", this documentary is filmed mostly at a rally of the Black Panther Party to free Huey P. Newton (1968) from jail. Directed by Agnes Varda, the film includes speakers, Bobby Seale, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, and Huey P. Newton.