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![Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CD 840Format: DVDProducers: California NewsreelCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Faubourg Treme is considered the oldest black neighborhood in America, the origin of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and the birthplace of jazz. The completed film uncovers Treme’s unique and hidden history and situates it within three centuries of African American struggle - from slavery through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights, to the recent threat of Hurricane Katrina.
![Freedom Bound](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 728Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Freedom Bound tells the story of the SNCC voter registration campaign in Mississippi in 1963. Through interviews with poor black farmers who risked everything to register to vote, the film conveys the courage, determination and sacrifice which the common people of the South used to help end racial segregation. Containing much of the same interviews as We'll Never Turn Back, this film features rare footage of SNCC volunteers telling their stories of crossing the color line in rural Mississippi.
![We'll Never Turn Back](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 729Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
We'll Never Turn Back was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous voter registration drives of that era. Appearing in the film are Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaders Bob Moses and Julian Bond, as well as local civil rights leaders Curtis Hayes, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe. There are interviews with black farmers and share croppers, including Fannie Lou Hamer, on their experiences (often bloody) trying to register to vote.
![Margaret Walker at the Schomberg Center for Black Research](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Margaret Walker recounts her life and her poetry. Towards the end of the tape Margaret reads a number of her poems. She discusses influences, the role conditions in the Southern United States played in her writing and her goals in her poetry. Tape 1 of 2?
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