In context: To kill a mockingbird
tension and tolerated judicial bias. Interviews, archival footage, and photographs combine to illustrate the realities of segregation, lynching, white
Sacred sounds: music of the world, songs of the soul
with commentary from festival director Dr. Faouzi Skali and music anthropologist David Lynch, the program features dynamic performances from the
Master and Slave: Slave Resistance
From the time they leave Africa; slaves resist their captive state. Actual rebellions are rare, in part because the vast majority of the population is white and free. In a one-year time frame in the early 1830s two significant events occur: the init...
Transcript: late 19th century Lynchings became exceptionally brutal, With burnings alive, mutilation, torture-- Just extreme violence against the victims of lynch
Memory: Fabric of the Mind
Lynch’s team believes it has found the basic mechanism of memory formation; James McGaugh’s that emotional states affect the ability to store and recall
Transcript: , neuroscientist Gary Lynch. The process becomes all the more remarkable when you ask yourself the question, what's going on inside your head that allows you to do
A history of women's achievement in America: America enters the world of nations
Paris -- 1893 - Ida B. Wells-Barnett Crusades Against Black Lynching in America -- 1904 - Gertrude Pridgett (Ma Rainey) Introduces the Blues -- 1905
Transcript: . Wells-Barnett exposed the horrors of these ways when it came to its black citizens. (narrator) It was the most heinous of acts: the lynching of black
Cappuccino trail: the global economy in a cup
Merrill Lynch's Judy Gaines, the industry oracle who discusses the market's volatility. The other bean finds its way into Cafe Direct, a new gourmet coffee
Transcript: . These people are just here to speculate for their own profit. It's exciting. You feel the pulse of the market. Merrill Lynch's commodities analyst, Judy
Progressive Era, The: African-Americans and Reform
One social question that receives relatively little attention from white progressives is race. Among African Americans themselves, however, the progressive era produces some significant challenges to existing racial norms. Black women engaged in wel...
Transcript: it is a time where black people Are living in abject terror For fear of their lives. You never knew when the lynch mob was going to get you The laws
1920s...Beyond the Glitter, The: Conflict of Cultures
The secular culture that emerges in the 1920s coexists with an older, more provincial sect that views this "new era" as a threat to their way of life. Prohibition fails, the Ku Klux Klan expands their targets to not only African Americans, but newly...
Transcript: there were-- cause celebre, a case of lynching Of eleven italians in new orleans. And as you go back through the history of lynching, It's surprising to
A history of black achievement in America: blacks enter the guilded age
Industrial Telephone System -- 1893: Ida B. Wells-Barnett crusades against the Black lynching in America -- 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson case upholds segregation.
Transcript: media to advance black causes. She showed how blacks as a group had political and economic power. (narrator) It was the most heinous of acts: the lynching
Zimbardo Speaks: The Lucifer Effect and the Psychology of Evil
’s experiments and by the Rwandan genocide; how systems create evil, as illustrated by the Holocaust and the lynching of African-Americans; heroism as an antidote
Transcript: TO GET TO TROPHY PHOTOS LATER OF AN EVEN WORSE KIND, OF AMERICANS WHO BURNED ALIVE AND LYNCHED BLACK PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH, IN THE MIDWEST FOR A