The African American Museum & Library in Oakland continues its traditional Martin Luther King, Jr. Film Festival and has prepared a selection of critically acclaimed films that put into historical perspective the Civil Rights movements and the its involved heroes.

The film festival will be held at the African American Museum & Library on Monday, January 16th at 11:00 am in Oakland, California.

Here are the four films documenting African Americans’ struggle for civil rights that will be screened:

  • Black Americans Since MLK: And Still I Rise
  • The African American: Many Rivers to Cross
  • The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights, and
  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.years.