Of Black America

(1968)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1968

Country: United States of America

Director: Perry Wolff

Cast: Bill Cosby, Mike Wallace, John Mosedale, Harry Reasoner, George Foster, Hal Walker, Charles Kuralt

Plot

Of Black America was a series of seven one-hour documentaries presented by CBS News in the summer of 1968, at the end of the Civil Rights Movement and during a time of racial unrest (Martin Luther King had been assassinated that spring and riots in many cities had followed). The groundbreaking[1] series explored various aspects of the history and current state of African-American community.