Minority Units In WWII 
Despite profound obstacles, minority units performed brilliantly during WWII. Click here to read about this program included in "Profiles of Courage, Controversy & Sacrifice."

California Killer Flood (1938) There have been eight major floods in the Valley since 1861, but the 1938 Los Angeles River Flood was one of the worst. The rains lasted for 3 days and the Big Tujunga Wash levee broke. Seventy-seven of its spreading basins were destroyed. Telephones and electrical power was shut down. Buildings on the Warner Bros. lot and the Olive Avenue bridge were washed out. It took 30 days and approximately $60,000.00 to clean-up the storm debris. The introduction of flood control channels has alleviated most of the flooding problems of the past, but has created the concrete eyesore we now know as the LA River.

Busing, Segregation, Sit-ins and Arrests (1960's) 
The Civil Rights Movement received an infusion of energy when students in Greensboro, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; and Atlanta, Georgia, began to "sit-in" at the lunch counters of a few of their local stores, to protest those establishments' refusal to desegregate. These protesters were encouraged to dress professionally, to sit quietly, and to occupy every other stool so that potential white sympathizers could join in. Many of these sit-ins provoked local authority figures to use brute force in physically escorting the demonstrators from the lunch facilities, others were "peaceful."
keywords: busing, segregation, picket-lines, peaceful demostrations, "We Shall Overcome"
 

Classic TV Clip 
"A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own" Starring Dick Van Dyke (1962) - The full episode is available in "Hollywoods Dental Comedy."

Black Cinema Posters  Beginning in 1910 and continuing through World War II, a little known independent film industry flourished in this country producing more than 500 movies. These films, many of which were produced by African Americans for black audiences were known as "Race Movies".