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-- August Wilson's The piano lesson.c2002., Hallmark Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy a farm--the same fields their family worked as slaves. But his sister, Berniece, refuses to part with it. For her, the piano is their very soul, a legacy of pride and struggle that symbolizes their survival as a family. To resolve the conflict they must first deal with the past.
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-- Readings from the slave narratives.By Glover, Jacqueline Lennon, Thomas Harris, Mark Jonathan, 1941- Bell, Ed Bassett, Angela Boatman, Michael, 1964- Browne, Roscoe Lee Cheadle, Don Davis, Ossie Dee, Ruby Guillaume, Robert Guy, Jasmine Jackson, Samuel L Pounder, C. C. H Smith, Roger Guenveur Vance, Courtney B Williams, Vanessa Winfrey, Oprah Woodard, Alfre, 1953- Goldberg, Whoopi, 1950- Home Boc2003., General, HBO Documentary Films : Distributed by HBO Video Call No: DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930's, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. In the midst of the Great Depression, journalists and writers traveled the country to record the memories of the last generation of African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historical record.