Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
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Jan 6, 2010 · Citizen Film. 509 subscribers. Subscribed. 119. 41K views 14 years ago. In the late 1930s, an estimated 100,000 former slaves were still alive in the United States.
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Sep 23, 2015 · 6.62K subscribers. Subscribed. 7.1K. 611K views 8 years ago. ...more. Unchained Memories is a 2003 documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of...
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives is a 2003 American documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave Narrative Collection.
This 74-minute HBO documentary brings the selected words of these former slaves to life through the voices of celebrated African-American actors - Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, the film features emotion-charged readings by Angela Bassett, Michael Boatman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Don Cheadle, Sandra Daley, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Robert Guillaume, Jasmi...
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UNCHAINED MEMORIES: READINGS FROM THE SLAVE NARRATIVES (TV) Summary. A documentary based on interviews with ex-slaves collected by the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s in which the actual words of former black slaves are read by a group of prominent African-American actors.
With Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Michael Boatman, Roscoe Lee Browne. When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress.
Mar 18, 2015 · This 74-minute HBO documentary brings the selected words of these former slaves to life through the voices of celebrated African-American actors – Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, the film features emotion-charged readings by Angela Bassett, Michael Boatman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Don Cheadle, Sandra Daley, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Robert Guillaume, Jasmi...
