Segregation Signs

Segregation Signs & White Only Signs

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

woman entering waiting room

South African apartheid in the 1950s.

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

Shots of poor South Africans during apartheid

Shots of poor South Africans during apartheid

Bussing Integration

Black Students in High Schools 1940s-70

Shots of poor South Africans during apartheid

Bayard Rustin speaks to a group about integration in 1960

John Hammond, Record Producer, Talks About African Music And How Artist Were Mistreated

Lionel Hampton Interview and Plays Xylophone

A large gold mine is shown near Johannesburg. A mining facility is shown and miners work in a tunnel. They push underground railway carts filled with rocks.

The Smithsonian Choir Sing Joy Joy Joy

Bud Freeman Interview

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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.

"AT RONA'S" SHOW #10 GUESTS: DEBBIE ALLEN, SANDY DUNCAN, ANN JILLIAN

South Africa & Johannesburg1940s 1970s

Armand Hug All Stars play Pretty Baby

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Didn't We Babe - Memphis Slim

A graphic of Johannesburg is shown. The large city and busy streets are shown with traffic.

People walk in cities in South Africa. African people walk on reserves. Clay houses are shown.

High School Kids 1940s-1960s

A downtown scene with department stores and people at restaurants is shown. Families are shown at their homes. Poor Africans are shown at a shack

A segregated city library is shown and Africans go inside. A girl's school is shown and a man in a suit speaks. Boys work at a desk.

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

My Love Will Follow You - Mighty Joe Young

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

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).

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

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

The Thrill Is Gone - B. B. King

Rich white South Africans during apartheid

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

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

Civil Rights

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

Birmingham Civil Rights 1963

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

South African apartheid in the 1950s.

Take You Down Town - Johnny Woods & Verlina Woods

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

Life for African Americans in the 60's

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

All You need is Love - Jungle Music: Jazz

All you need is Love - God's Children: The Beginnings

Civil Rights compilation

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

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

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