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Dec. 12, 2022

How Four Black Students Changed the World (The Story of the Greensbor…

On February, 1, 1960, Four Black college students that sat at a "whites only" Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and sparked a movement that would spread to towns throughout the South and forced Woolworth’s and other establishments...

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Nov. 28, 2022

Ruby Bridges goes to School (The Story of Ruby Bridges)

Ruby Bridges was a 6 year old African-American child, who desegregated the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...

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Nov. 14, 2022

The Little Rock Nine

The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957 in an attempt to challenge the segregation after Brown vs Board of Education Audio Onemichistory.com...

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Oct. 31, 2022

Brown v Board II: The Massive Resistance

Following the 1954 Brown ruling,, Southerners responded angrily soon a Massive Resistance campaign began an attempt to block integration at every level of government. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our Patreon:...

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Oct. 17, 2022

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was a Civil rights org, established by the Dr Martin Luther King, Jr in 1957 to assist and coordinate with local organizations in their fight for full equality of African Americans in America. Audio...

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Oct. 3, 2022

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama in protest of bus segregation laws. The boycott is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against...

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Sept. 19, 2022

The Life of Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights movement

Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist and recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, December 1955, triggered a wave of protests that...

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Sept. 5, 2022

Lost in the Movement: The Story of Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin is an pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. Audio...

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June 27, 2022

The Murder of Emmett Till

Emmett Louis Till, was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew...

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June 19, 2022

Bonus - The History of Juneteenth (Remastered)

Juneteenth is annual holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States, its a mix of June and Nineteenth, Originating in Galveston, Texas, it is now celebrated annually on June 19 throughout the United States,...

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June 6, 2022

Brown vs The Board of Education of Topeka

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the...

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May 30, 2022

The History of Black Wall St. and The Tulsa Massacre (Remastered)

During the early 20th century, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its African American community known as the Greenwood District. It was home to a thriving business district and surrounding residential area that earned it the nickname “Black Wall...

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May 23, 2022

The Black Panthers: The Story of the 761st Tank Battalion

The 761st Tank Battalion known as the “Black Panthers” were one of the three United States Army segregated combat tank battalion to serve during World War II. The unit spend over 183 consecutive days in combat. Audio Onemichistory.com Please...

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May 9, 2022

Red Tails: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen

This video is about the Tuskegee Airmen during World War 2 The Tuskegee Airmen were a group African Americans who enlisted to become America's first black military airmen, during a time when there were many people who thought that black men lacked...

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April 25, 2022

The ATTACK on Black Veterans Pt. 2 (The World War 2 Years)

21 years after the end of the first great war with a new great war looming. A new generation of African Americans had to decide if fighting for democracy abroad would offer them another chance for equality at home. This is a story about the...

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April 11, 2022

The Founding of the NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)[a] is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. This is the story of how that...

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March 28, 2022

The Lost Story of America's Coup D'État - The Wilmington riot

On November 10, 1898 a mob angry over what they called “Negro Rule” overthrew the elected government in Wilmington, North Carolina. This is the story of the only successful coup d’état ever to take place on American soil. Audio Onemichistory.com...

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March 14, 2022

The Amazing Life of Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She went on to become an integral in the early civil rights movement. Audio Onemichistory.com...

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Feb. 28, 2022

What's Plessy v Ferguson?

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” Plessy is widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history. Audio...

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Feb. 21, 2022

Bonus - The Origins of Black History Month (Remastered and Rereleased)

Black History Month is an annual celebration of the study and achievements of African Americans and a time when they weren't being recognized their central role in U.S. history. It was the predecessor to “Negro History Week,” which was the brainchild...

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Feb. 14, 2022

The Jim Crow Era

This video is an explanation of Jim Crow in American Jim Crow were state and local laws and etiquette that enforced racial segregation and affected every aspect of African American's lives. Audio Onemichistory.com Please support our...

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Feb. 1, 2022

Reconstruction and The Freedmen

Reconstruction was a time period from around 1865-1877, it was an effort to reintegrate Southern states back in the union as well as define 4 million newly-freed African Americans’ place in American society. Audio Onemichistory.com Please...

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Nov. 24, 2021

The Harder They Fall

The Netflix movie “The Harder They Fall”. The movie assembles cast black actors to play legendary Black western figures from across time to tell a fictional story about two rival groups, the Nat Love gang and the Rufus Buck gang. While the Harder They...

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Nov. 11, 2021

The Legend of Black Death

Henry Johnson while on watch in the Argonne Forest in France on May 14, 1918, he fought off a German raid, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier Private Needham Roberts while experiencing 21 wounds himself. Audio...

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