Setting the Record Straight - American History in Black & White (2005)

Setting the Record Straight reintroduces this generation to the forgotten heroes and untold stories from our rich African American political history:

• -The Rev. Richard Allen, the founder of America's first black denomination
• -The Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, the first African American to deliver a sermon in Congress
• -The Rev. Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first black U.S. Senator
• -Joseph Hayne Rainey, the first African American elected to the U.S. Congress
• -Jefferson Frankilin Long, the first African American to give a speech in the U.S. House
• -John Rock, the first African American admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar
• -John Roy Lynch, the first African American to preside over a national political convention
• -The Rev. Frederick Douglass, the first African American to be appointed to office in four different presidential administrations.
• These heroes--and many others--are presented in this inspiring documentary of African American political history.
• Source: Vision Video