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The Turning Points: America In the Twentieth Century; this episode of the television series chronicles the desegregation of the University...

This short documentary details a civil rights march on September 4, 1966. Robert Lucas led activists through Cicero to protest restrictions in hous...

This trailer was made before Fred Hampton’s death when the film was to be called “Black Panther.” It shows Hampton giving a speech on revolution an...

A trailer for Film Group’s feature length documentary on the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Includes footage not in the film of Black Panther...

A trailer for Film Group’s feature length documentary on the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Includes footage not in the film of Black Panther...

A documentary exploring political apathy among white college students at Northwestern University during the civil rights movement. The film contr...

Appears to be an episode from a television series that is possibly titled “In Rapport.” This episode features an interview between Bryant George, a...

Kentucky Governor Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Sr. is interviewed at the 1956 Democratic Convention, held at the International Amphitheatre on ...

Charles Percy speaks at a press conference at the Republican National Convention, July 25-28, 1960 in Chicago.

Silent footage of GOP presidential nominee Nelson Rockefeller at a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) rally at Libe...

Black and white outtakes featuring Prescott Bush, the Chairman of the Republican Platform Committee, making a speech to the Committee ahead of the ...

George Meany of the AFL-CIO attends the Democratic Platform and Resolutions Committee in 1956.

Silent Telenews coverage of the violent response to the attempted racial desegregation at Sturgis High School in rural Western Kentucky in 1956.