Of Black America (1968)

First Air Date: 1968-07-02
Last Air Date: 1968-09-02
Total Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 7
Network: CBS
Creator: Perry Wolff

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.