Resistance to Oppression and Tyranny: Videos

Traces the journey to freedom taken by countless slaves, showing how they were guided, protected and pursued along the way. The extraordinary story is told through historical documents, visits to important sites, interviews with the descendants of noted abolitionists and commentary from experts.

Documents the African-American religious experience during the last three centuries from the early African slaves, through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Era, and into the 21st century. Explores the struggle of African-Americans in their faith and how it became a force for social, political and cultural change in the United States.

African-American people have been a vital part of the Methodist movement since it began in America in 1784. This video explores the 200 year history of Blacks in Methodism. Methodist church historians and church leaders present historic churches and important historical figures like Harry Hoosier, Richard Allen, C. A. Tindley and Mary McLeod Bethune, and discuss African-American contributions in art, music and worship traditions and in the organizational history of the United Methodist Church.