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Jackie Robinson: Breaks Color Barrier
Channel: Bio
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Date: January 07, 2011
28 year-old Jackie Robinson became the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he stepped onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to comp...
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Maya Angelou: Martin Luther King
Channel: Bio
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Date: January 07, 2011
Angelou tells a long story about a black woman who worked for a white woman for fifty years in the deep south.
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Maya Angelou: MLK Assassination
Channel: Bio
Length: 0
Date: January 07, 2011
She tells a story about how she had spoken to Dr. King & agreed to go back to work for him again but that she wouldn’t start until the Monday a...
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Maya Angelou: Marilyn Monroe
Channel: Bio
Length: 0
Date: January 07, 2011
"Marilyn Monroe was a beautiful and sad woman I thought.  I thought she was marvelously beautiful and I loved her sensuality."
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Maya Angelou: Vietnam
Channel: Bio
Length: 0
Date: January 07, 2011
"I’m still embarrassed and hurt about Vietnam." Angelou eschews a sense of frustration at the lack of reason behind the conflict, and the use of e...
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Maya Angelou: Rosa Parks
Channel: Bio
Length: 0
Date: January 07, 2011
Angelou felt that Parks had greatness thrust upon her, achieved greatness, and was also born great. Parks' actions made for "a different ...
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Maya Angelou: Women’s Movement
Channel: Bio
Length: 0
Date: January 07, 2011
"Largely, the women’s movement has been a white women's movement...In the black community, black women are essential."
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Maya Angelou: Thurgood Marshall
Channel: Bio
Length: 0
Date: January 07, 2011
Angelou asserts that many black people were "embarrassed" at the revolutionary concept of desegregation of the schools.
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Maya Angelou on Watergate
Channel: Bio
Length: 0
Date: January 07, 2011
"I was surprised at the naivety of white Americans." "I know that there is an enduring naivety. It’s really a contrived innocence you see."
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Maya Angelou: The Space Race
Channel: Bio
Length: 0
Date: January 07, 2011
"Ah well, yes. That was certainly an incredible achievement." Angelou goes on to "question the expenditure" of the space race considering all the ...
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