Minidocs

This page allows creative filmmakers to display their work in the form of minidocs (three to five minute documentaries) related to information on BlackPast.org. If you would like to add your minidoc, please contact us at [email protected].

Alice Ball

minidoc created by

David Oglesby

George Edwin Taylor

Taylor wearing a dark suit and top hat and holding what looks like a folded paper. — Presidential race poster for George Edwin Taylor, 1904

minidoc created by

Michelle Flowers Taylor

National Museum of African American History and Culture

National Museum of African American History and Culture

minidoc created by

Michelle Flowers Taylor

Voices of Black Suffragists

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, c. 1893

minidoc created by

Michelle Flowers Taylor

To read “We Are All Bound Up Together” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1866), click here.

120th Anniversary of WEB DuBois’s Color Line Speech

minidoc created by

Michelle Flowers Taylor

For more information on WEB DuBois, click here.

Willa Brown Chappell

Willa Beatrice Brown — Willa Beatrice Brown, ca. 1941-1945

minidoc created by

Rita Fuller-Yates

For more information on Willa Brown Chappell, click here.

Juneteenth

minidoc created by

Michelle Flowers Taylor

For more information on Juneteenth, click here.

Negro Baseball League

Negro Baseball League All-Stars, Comiskey Park, Chicago, 1939

minidoc created by

Rita Fuller-Yates

For more information on the Negro Baseball League, click here.

Ohio State University African Americans of Note

Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin

minidoc created by

Rita Fuller-Yates

For more information on Ohio State University African Americans of Note, click here.

Martha Lawrence

Martha Hartway — Martha Hartway Lawrence

minidoc created by

Rita Fuller-Yates

For more information on Martha Lawrence, click here.

Fair Housing Act of 1968

Fair Housing Act of 1968 — DOJ 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 Ceremony

minidoc created by

Michelle Flowers-Taylor

For more information on the Fair Housing Act, click here.

Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

minidoc created by

Rita Fuller-Yates

For more information on Phillis Wheatley, click here.

Prince Hall Masons

Black and white image of a painting of Prince Hall standing, wearing and African Lodge label around his waste. — Prince Hall

minidoc created by

Rita Fuller-Yates

For more information on the Prince Hall Masons, click here.

A Tale of Three Dumas

Alexandre Dumas, 1855

minidoc created by

Michelle Flowers-Taylor

For more information on Alexandre Dumas, click here and here.

Marsha Turner Taylor

Marsha Turner Taylor

minidoc created by

Michelle Flowers Taylor

For more information on Marsha Turner Taylor, click here.