uploaded 20 Oct 2021 · YouTube · kevin clark
About this film
A television news feature on the 2,000-piece Buffalo Soldiers exhibit that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, historian and collector Anthony Powell and Kevin Clark assembled from their collections, displayed at the Schomburg Center in Harlem. Abdul-Jabbar on why history matters; Powell on his grandfather, Sgt. Samuel Waller, who served forty years in the Army as one of the original Buffalo Soldiers and told him the Army gave him "the only part of the American dream that the nation would let me share in."
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Buffalo Soldiers at the Schomburg Museum — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The exhibit itself, filmed at the Schomburg Center.
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Heroes in this film
This film is about the project and its people rather than one of the seven heroes.
Use in the classroom
Screen it at an assembly, pair it with the 1776 → today timeline and the observance calendar, or book the speaker’s bureau on the contact page.
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