Youth Media: From Black Power To Black Monday 11mins 51secs
Produced by Byron Ezell, Jason Humphrey, Ray L. Baker, Heather Faison, Kierra Jones, Debbie Origho
Price: Free
Proud young men and women with determination in their eyes and cries of change on their lips have authored new chapters of world history. They range from Howard University alumnus Stokely Carmichael, a.k.a Kwame Ture, a leader of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), to the hearing-impaired students who fought for a new president at Gallaudet University.
The purpose of this project is to chronicle the history of student activism in the nation's capital from the 1960s. This important story offers a decade-by-decade look at the issues and events that drove students out of the classrooms and into the streets. By shining a mirror on the past, this project will close gaps in our knowledge and provide insight to understand the challenges of tomorrow.
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Produced by Howard University students for NBPC's Eyes On The Prize New Media Competition
Having just dropped out of Livingstone College, I was not a student at Howard. I felt though had to show my support of the student movement by joining with my friends at the Administration (A) Building that spring day. I saw people who were with me that day on film so I must be in the crowd somewhere. As a member of the New School of Afro American Thought many student leaders attended classes on Black history and politics there. Keep in mind that Dr. King has just been assassinated and emotions were running high in the black community period. As a DC native we felt that Howard students were elitist and held themselves apart from the majority black population. At that time the headquarters of SNCC and the New School were on 14th & Florida Avenues not far from the Howard campus. Stokey spoke frequently on campus urging students to become revolutionairs. I remember sleeping two nights on the hard floors of the Administration Building and the anxiety of not knowing if the police would remove us by force. I though perhaps today I will die.
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