Tell Them We Are Rising | History & Impact of Historically Black Colleges & Universities | Independent Lens

CO-PRODUCED and CO-DIRECTED BY

Marco Williams

PRODUCED BY

Cyndee Readdean

Stacey L. Holman

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Lois Vossen

Sally Jo Fifer

WRITTEN BY

Marcia Smith

EDITED BY

K.A. Miille

MUSIC COMPOSED BY

Tom Phillips

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Carol Bash

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FILM RESEARCHER

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Edna Greene Medford

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ADDITIONAL EDITING

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LINE PRODUCER

Ann Bennett

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Peter Hutchens

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ARCHIVAL MATERIALS COURTESY OF

ABC News Videosource

The Afro-American

Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama

Alcorn State University

Allen University

American Antiquarian Society

Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA

Associated Press

The Atlanta Constitution

Atlanta History Center

Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

BBC Broadcast Archive

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Bluefield State College

Boston Public Library

Brown Brothers

Budget Films Stock Footage

Capital City Press/Georges Media Group, and Baton Rouge, LA

Cecil Williams Photography

Christianburg Institute

CNN Collection

Columbia Center for Oral History Archives

Collection of the New York Historical Society, USA / Bridgeman Images

Connecticut Journal

Cook Collection, The Valentine

The CONUS Archive

Corey Johnson

Cornell University

Critical Past

DC Public Library, Star Collection, Washington Post

Delaware State University

Department of Special Collections and Dillard University

Dorothy W. Smith

E-Footage

East Baton Rouge Public Library

Estate of Thurgood Marshall

Emory University

Everett Collection, Inc.

F.D. Bluford Archives, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University

F.I.L.M. Archives

Florida A&M

The Fort Family

Footage Farm

Fox Movietone Archive

The Franklin Library, Fisk University

Fred Prejean

Garrett Garms, Winston-Salem State University

George Tames / The New York Times / Redux

Georgia Historical Society

Gerard Howard, HBCUBANDS

Getty Images

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Global Image Works, LLC

Grambling State University

Gray Television Group, Inc., WCTV-TV / Tallahassee

Greensboro News & Record

Greg French

Sherman Grinberg Film Library

Hampton University Archives

Harvard University

Haverford College Library

Historic Films Archive, LLC

Historical & Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library

Honda

Howard University

Internet Archive

ITN Source

Jessika Ward

John E. Allen, Inc.

Johnson C. Smith University

Joseph & Vivian Tucker

Josephine Smith-Jones

Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center

John Kouns

Larry Gibson

Larry Pannell and Janice Cowans

L’Atelier des Archives

Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos

Library of Congress

Lincoln University

Linda Miller / C.M. Battey Collection

Louisiana and Special Collections Department, University of New Orleans

Louisiana Department of Archives and History

Madam Walker Family Archives / A’Lelia Bundles

Matthew Millighan

Mercer Museum

Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Mississippi Valley State University

Moorland Spingarn Research Center

Morgan State University

Morris Brown College

MUSE Communications

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Nashville Public Library, Special Collections

National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Ohio History

National Archives and Records Administration

NBCUniversal Archives

New Haven Museum

New Orleans Public Library

New York Public Library

North Carolina Central University

Oddball Films

Ohio History Connection

Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection / The Daily Oklahoman

Paine College

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

Penn School Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Wilson Library

Peter Holden

Presbyterian Historical Society

Producers Library

Prometheus Books

RetroFootage

Rickey Hill

Ron Grossman and Tribune Reporter / Chicago Tribune / TNS

Rose Library, Emory University

Saint Augustine’s University

Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History,

Smithsonian Institution

Southern University Archives

Special Collections and University Archives, Johnston Memorial Library,

Virginia State University

Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech

Spelman College Archives

State Archives of Florida

State Archives of North Carolina

Streamline Films

Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library, Emory University

The Tapscott Family

Tennessee State Library and Archives

Tennessee State University

Texas Archive of the Moving Image, courtesy of Dr. Thomas F. Freeman

Thomas County, Georgia Historical Society

Tuskegee University Archives

UCLA Film & TV Archive

United Negro College Fund

Department of Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Arkansas Pine Bluff

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

University of Virginia Special Collections

Vanderbilt TV News Archive

Video Dialog, Inc.

Videoline Productions

WAFB-TV

Wazee Digital

Winston Salem State University

WNET / THIRTEEN Productions LLC

The WPA Film Library

WSB Newsfilm Collection, University of Georgia Libraries

WVUE-TV

Xavier University

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Ford Foundation / JustFilms

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