The Slave Years Blazing Saddles The Petersburg Public A side splitting comedy spoof on west- 12 Years s Slave erns, about an African American who The true story of Solomon Northrup, a Library presents: finds himself appointed sheriff— free man in New York, who is kidnapped because the town is sure anyone who and forced to spend 12 years as a slave in takes the job is a dead man. Louisiana. African
Amistad The Color Purple When captured Africans take over the American The classic adaptation of Alice Walker’s slave ship that kidnapped them, they Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a must defend their right to freedom in woman’s fight for happiness in the face America’s courts. History on of rural poverty. Glory Fences The 54th Regiment of Massachusetts was A film adaptation of August Wilson’s Film the first Black regiment to serve for Pulitzer winning play about a former the North. Negro League baseball player as he Rule breakers, system
struggles to provide for his family in a Harriet fighters, and {good} trouble world that makes that a constant strug- The amazing life of Underground Rail- gle. makers…. road conductor, Harriet Tubman.
Race Roots In 1936, Jesse Owens competed in the Follow an American family from the ab- Berlin Olympics, facing down the oppres- The Struggle: duction of Kinte Kunte through his the sive racial climate of the Nazi regime lives of his descendants, from slavery to The Civil Rights Years
Best of Enemies freedom. A Raisin in the Sun The true story of a Civil Rights organizer The film adaptation of Lorraine Hans- and a KKK leader who somehow build a After the War: berrry’s play about a struggling African friendship during the debate for school American family in Chicago. Jim Crow Years integration in Durham, NC..
42: The Jackie Robinson Story Sounder Jackie Robinson busted the color line in The Butler A Walt Disney adaptation of William H. Major League Baseball when he was Cecil Gaines served as butler in the White Armstrong’s novel about the struggles of signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946. House to seven presidents and had a first a sharecroppers family during the Great person view of the great changes of the Depression. The Autobiography of Miss Jane 20th century.
Pittman To Kill a Mockingbird The remarkable story of an African Amer- Ghosts of Mississippi Based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize win- ican woman from slavery to civil rights. The story of Myrlie Evers thirty year fight ning novel about a lawyer’s battle to to obtain justice for the murder of her prove the innocence of a falsely accused husband, Civil Rights activist, Medgar black man in the face of racial prejudice. Evers.
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? Selma The Petersburg Public Sidney Poitier stars as an African Ameri- The story of Martin Luther King Jr.’s piv- can man engaged to a white woman— otal march from Selma to Montgomery. Library presents: and now they are heading to her parent’s house to break the news. Selma, Lord, Selma The story of the march to Selma told African The Help from the point of a view of an Alabama Based on the bestselling book and focus- schoolgirl. ing on three women in 1962 Mississippi American and the relationships between African The Latter 20th Century American women and the white women Bamboozled they work for. History on Spike Lee’s satirical take on the exploi- Hidden Figures tative nature of entertainment.
The hidden history of the women mathe- Boyz N the Hood maticians who’s amazing talents helped Film Three friends grow up in the Los Ange- win the space race. les ‘Hood, facing violent trials and tough Just Mercy Rule breakers, system decisions. Bryan Stevenson chose to take his Har- fighters, and {good} trouble vard Law degree to Alabama to fight for Do the Right Thing those unjustly imprisoned. makers…. A Spike Lee classic about a single block
of a Brooklyn neighborhood and the Malcolm X slow build over single day to an eruption The Autobiography of Malcolm X, fighter of violence. Petersburg Public Library for African American rights, portrayed by 201 W Washington St. Denzel Washington. Jungle Fever 804-451-3998 Spike Lee’s examination of interracial Mississippi Burning www.ppls.org relationships and their consequences. Based on a true account. When three civil rights activists disappear in rural Straight Outta Compton Call or place your hold though Mississippi, two FBI agents confront hos- The rise and fall of iconic rap group, tile locals to find the truth. our online catalog to pick up N.W.A. you materials at our drive
A Patch of Blue through. A blind white woman has no idea she is building a relationship with a black man.
Ruby Bridges Walt Disney presents the story of Ruby Bridges, the heroic little girl who helped to integrate her New Orleans elementary school.