Black History Month 2012

GPB salutes the achievements of African Americans on-air, online and through film.

Online - Education

Visit our GPB Learning Media classroom for multimedia on Black History month.

Georgia Stories
African-American Inventors
The Alonzo Herndon Family
The Saga of Reconstruction

Georgia World War II Oral History Project
Tuskegee Airman Charles Dryden
Private Tuskegee Airman, Earl Martin

Programs we recommend:
African American Lives 2
Red Tail Reborn

Visit the Today in Georgia History site for these stories and more and corresponding activities, vocabulary words and further reading:
Robert Abbott
Ray Charles
Cynthia McKinney
Butterfly McQueen
Joseph Lowery
Clarence Thomas

You're Invited to a Community Film Screening!

RSVP for the premiere of the documentary "More Than a Month" Wednesday,
February 22 at 7 p.m. at GPB. Reserve your seat.

Educator Workshop on Slavery By Another Name

Register for a free training session with Pulitzer Prize winning author Doug Blackmon and subjects featured in the documentary Slavery By Another Name. The workshop is February 25 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Register here.

Television

Freedom Riders – 2/7 at 8 p.m. – This program chronicles the journey of the courageous band of civil-rights activists in the Deep South in 1961.

Slavery by Another Name – 2/13 at 9 p.m. - Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Doug Blackmon, this documentary challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

The Bricks We Walk on - Immediately following Slavery by Another Name, author and Atlantan Doug Blackmon visits sites in Atlanta with historic relevance to the program.

Radio

Several Black History Month documentaries air every Thursday night at 7pm (February 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd)

Maya Angelou’s Black History Month Special - 2/2 at 7 p.m. Maya Angelou defines Black History as it is embraced in our popular culture with an emphasis on the civil rights era.

The Little Rock Nine - 2/9 at 7 p.m. - Carlotta Walls LaNier, one of the "Little Rock Nine" shares recollections of the sacrifices made and the abuses endured in her pursuit of a fair and equal education.

Race and the Space Race - 2/16 at 7 p.m. - The Space Age began when America was going through a wrenching battle over Civil Rights. In this program, we hear the stories of the people who broke the color line at NASA.

Bayard Rustin – Who Is This Man? from State of the Re:Union - 2/23 at 7 p.m.
Bayard Rustin had numerous passions and pursuits, but his most transformative act, one that certainly changed the course of American history, was to counsel MLK on the use of non-violent resistance. Rustin also helped to engineer the March on Washington and frame the Montgomery bus boycott.