Reply #8: And, if you haven't seen the series "Africans in America," you [View All]

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should. It's also PBS -- produced in 1998. Fantastic companion website here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html

I use the videos in my history 101 class every semester.
Nice to see some pro-active learning going on here; one of the reasons Americans are ignorant is that they wait to be spoon-fed knowledge (and then, there is the whole issue of what isn't taught . . .)!