Civil Rights Movement: Historic Roots

Duration: 22

Genre: Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1967

Creator: National Broadcasting Corporation

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Traces the historical background of Negroes in the United States and mades reference to civil rights movement during the mid-1960s. Shows how Negroes were forced to leave their homeland to be sold as slaves, and relates the connection between the invention of the cotton gin and the proliferation of the slave trade. Shows the effect Uncle Tom's Cabin had on the abolitionist movement.

Complete Record: Traces the historical background of Negroes in the United States and mades reference to civil rights movement during the mid-1960s. Shows how Negroes were forced to leave their homeland to be sold as slaves, and relates the connection between the invention of the cotton gin and the proliferation of the slave trade. Shows the effect Uncle Tom's Cabin had on the abolitionist movement., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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