PBS BLACK HISTORY PROGRAMMING: pbs.org/about/news/archive/2014/black-history-month/ ♦️AMERICAN MASTERS “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth” -Friday, February 7, 2014, 9:00-10:30 p.m. ET Most famous for her seminal novel The Color Purple, writer/activist Alice Walker celebrates her 70th birthday. Born February 9, 1944, into a family of sharecroppers in rural Georgia, she came of age during the violent racism and seismic social changes of mid-20th-century America. Her mother, poverty and participation in the Civil Rights Movement were the formative influences on her consciousness, becoming the inherent themes in her writing. The first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Walker continues to shine a light on global human rights issues. Her dramatic life is told with poetry and lyricism, and includes interviews with Steven Spielberg, Danny Glover, Quincy Jones, Howard Zinn, Gloria Steinem, Sapphire, and Walker herself. ♦️INDEPENDENT LENS “Spies of Mississippi” Monday, February 10, 2014, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET View the story of a secret spy agency formed during the 1950s and 60s by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation and maintain white supremacy. Over a decade, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission employed a network of investigators and informants, including African Americans, to help infiltrate the NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). They were granted broad powers to investigate private citizens and organizations, keep secret files, make arrests and compel testimony. The program tracks the commission’s hidden role in important chapters of the Civil Rights Movement, including the integration of the University of Mississippi, the trial of Medgar Evers and the KKK murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. 🔹JAZZ AND THE PHILHARMONIC Friday, February 28, 2014, 9:00-10:30 p.m. ET JAZZ AND THE PHILHARMONIC is a unique, generational and wholly American concert experience that highlights two of the greatest musical art forms the world has ever seen, classical and jazz. With performances by artists such as Chick Corea, Bobby McFerrin, Terence Blanchard and Elizabeth Joy Roe, this special emphasizes the works of legendary past composers such as Bach and Mozart with these contemporary artists. Songs are performed with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra from the University of Miami Frost School of Music and National YoungArts Foundation alumni. 🔹BECOMING AN ARTIST Friday, February 28, 2014, 10:30-11:00 p.m. ET Enjoy an inspiring tribute to the power of mentoring and the vital role it plays in passing on our artistic cultural heritage from one generation to the next. The documentary features acclaimed artists across the disciplines, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert Redford, Rosie Perez, Bill T. Jones, Frank Gehry, Brian Stokes Mitchell, John Guare and Kathleen Turner working with some of the nation’s most talented students selected by the National YoungArts Foundation. BECOMING AN ARTIST is a celebration of our cultural vitality and the need to ensure its continuance. ============== EARLIER IN FEBRUARY, 2014 Stills of the Movement: The Civil Rights Photojournalism of Flip Schuke - NJTV--Feb05--4am: John AMOS, Myrlie Evers Looking Over JORDAN - African americans and the {Civil} War - (NJTV--Feb05); Highlights: 🔹Verily, the work does not end with the abolition of slavery, but only begins. __ Frederick Douglas, 1863? 🔹{Enslavers} feared education; illiteracy proved more effective xxxxxxx than shackles and chains as tools of enslavement. HATRED which included VIRULENT, VICIOUS attacks on educators, like the SLAUGHTER of (17 year old Julia Hayden because she taught (1870s) 🔹How African-Descended children tricked white children into teaching them to read and write: can you spell my name? The arrogant white child would spell it; can you write it? Of course. Then write it. (The volumes of lesson for liberation in such a scenario!! 🔹the pivotal role of African-Descended UNION soldiers in the Battle of Nashville {campaign} 🔹We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating {the enslaved} where we cannot reach them, and holding them in BONDAGE where we can set them FREE __William Seward, u.s. Sec. Of State-1863? re: the emancipation Proclamation 🔹The emancipation Proclamation xxxxxxx the xxxxxxxx to DIE for our freedom ♦️The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross: Into The Fire (1861-1896); Making A Way Out of No Way…WLIW
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