An African-American family celebrates a birthday.

African-American families shop together, and pay attention to advertisements in Ebony magazine.

Young African American boys fight in an alley in the 1970's.

African-American New Yorkers live in Harlem, where they still face some racial prejudice

African-American depart a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Hardeeville, South Carolina by truck.

African-American families play and wash cars together, while the narrator describes them as a new viable marketing demographic.

US Army soldiers pick up African-American students, the Little Rock Nine, to take them to their newly integrated school (narrated by Jefferson Thomas in 1964).

US Army soldiers escort African-American students, the Little Rock Nine, into their newly integrated school (narrated by Jefferson Thomas in 1964).

A white nurse helps train African-American midwives, both new and experienced, about how to tie off umbilical cords.

Venice Skatepark - African American Kids skating

African-American members of the Civilian Conservation Corps plant crops and start building a dike in Hardeeville, South Carolina.

Screener: The South Bank Show: August Wilson

Screener: The South Bank Show - Darker Than Me

Venice Skatepark - Young African American and Lation Skaters during COVID

All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music - "I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation: Ragtime".

Extract from The South Bank Show: August Wilson

Extract from The South Bank Show: August Wilson

Rural American Poverty

Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) Talks About The Origins Of Slaves

Extract from The South Bank Show: August Wilson

Rural American Poverty

Feel So Bad - Jimmy Dawkins

Clip from 'All You Need Is Love - Episode 10' of Berry Gordy and The Supremes

Young black kids enjoy a swing set in Harlem.

The Harlem Globetrotters are seen in action.

Rural Poor South, 1950s-1980s

Bud Freeman Interview

While a jazz group performs, a narrator explains how the stagnant state of the genre correlates to racism in America.

Black students led by Rap Brown hold protests and occupy Cornell University Hall until demands are met.

Scenes of the Harlem New York ghetto in the early 1960's.

The Smithsonian Choir Sing Joy Joy Joy

Bayard Rustin speaks to a group about integration in 1960

In this musical revue at the Apollo Theater, Amos Milburn plays a piano solo and performs Bewildered with his orchestra.

A jazz pianist and bass player perform.

America's Junior Miss girls enjoy a party and then they are interviewed on the subject of spirit, in a home, in 1970.

Paul Oliver, Historian, Talks About The Aftermath Of Slavery And The Awakening Of Black Identity

Civil Rights Protestors Beaten

Only You (And You Alone) - The Platters

Fats Waller plays the piano at a house party backed by his band, singing a song about the new slang jumpin'.

Crowds line the streets of Washington DC to see JFK's casket pulled by in his funeral procession.

WACs in Algiers

Men and women, black workers and white, congregate at unemployment rallies in Boston Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island.

An angry white mob organizes outside of Little Rock High School to protest its integration in 1957, as Jefferson Thomas recalls

Close-ups show emotional crowds present for JFK's funeral procession through Washington DC. Soldiers stand by in salute.

In this musical revue at the Apollo Theater, jazz singer Sarah Vaughan concludes a performance of These Things I Offer You.

Screener: The South Bank Show - Looking for the Perfect Beat

Jazz and gospel music are shown as examples of how black Americans find joy in the present while denied prospects of a good future in the segregated USA.

Young black boys play in a truck bed in Harlem.

When The Saints Go Marching In Parade - New Orleans

RONA BARRETT LOOKS AT TODAY'S SUPER RICH. INTERVIEWS: DONALD TRUMP, DIANE VON FURSTENBERG, HARRY HELMSLEY, JOHN JOHNSON, TRAMMELL CROW, CLEMENT STONE

RONA BARRETT INTERVIEWS MARK DOWIE, MICHAEL WINSLOW, HENRY FONDA, JOANNE WOODWARD

Adlai Stevenson's eulogy for JFK is heard as mourners watch his funeral procession.

Pedestrians are filmed walking down State Street in Chicago, Illinois during the day

Church services in Philadelphia are followed by the Mummers Parade

Street-level views show JFK's funeral procession, including his horse-drawn casket.

Rosa Parks is interviewed about her bus boycott civil rights activism.

Didn't We Babe - Memphis Slim

Pedestrians of all ages are seen walking in downtown Chicago.

The 369th Harlem Hellfighters march in review.

Small Independent Coffee Shop in Los Angeles

John Lewis leads sit-ins across the South to peacefully protest segregation.

Mourners gather to see JFK's funeral procession as Chief Justice Warren eulogizes him.

Voting Rights Act signed 1965

Screener: World in Action - Dick Gregory

An aerial view shows men, women, and children enjoying a swimming pool at a resort in Korea

Young black children play with jump rope and roller skates in Harlem.

Dizzy Gillespie's band joins flautist James Moody on Autumn Leaves at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Take You Down Town - Johnny Woods & Verlina Woods

A hitchhiking woman pulls out a knife and steals a man's car

Jimmy Rushing begins singing at the Newport Jazz Festival backed by Count Basie's orchestra.

Criminals commit petty theft due to the victims lack of awareness

Dizzy Gillespie introduces his flautist James Moody at the Newport Jazz Festival, who begins a rendition of Autumn Leaves.

The Twentieth Century Limited is advertised at Grand Central Station

TWA Airlines 1930s-1960s

Barrista making coffee - small Independent Coffee Shop in Los Angeles

The Modern Jazz Quartet play The Golden Striker at the Newport Jazz Festival.

A man is robbed after taking out a large amount of cash at the bank

Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, attends a newly integrated school guarded by troops and recalls racists threatening to lynch her.

Members of the Korean press are issued ID cards and loaded onto buses headed for Panmunjom

A patrol of US Navy infantrymen marches through a rice paddy in Panmunjom

Cars pass a UN security checkpoints in Panmunjom.

Intdepth intervewith Mariah Carey on Wetten, dass

A CH-47A helicopter lands on a field in Panmunjom

Venice Skatepark - Skater Fail and Coastguard Helicopter

Police brutality breaks out at anti-war protests across America.

All you need is Love - Rhythm And Blues: Good Times

Venice Skatepark - Coastguard Helicopter Flying past

Venice Skatepark - Latino Skater Girl

All You Need Is Love - Episode 10 Good Times Rhythm And Blues

Venice Skatepark - Skater Fail and Coastguard Helicopter

Venice Skatepark - Lation Skater doing rail slide

All You Need is Love - Who's that Comin? Blues .

Family Life in the USA in the 70's and 80's

All You Need is Love - "Swing That Music!:

Gritty NYC 1969-1990s

Gritty New York from the 70's to the present day

Screener: World In Action - The America of Alistair Cooke

Screener: Cuba Si! Havana

Downtown Salt Lake City and State Capitol Building - Aerial Rushes 4K

Screener: World in Action - Dallas

African Wildlife & Game Hunting 1960s-1970s

African Animals, Antelopes 1950s-1970s