Here you can purchase
Susheel Bibbs' award-winning documentaries, her award-winning book
HERITAGE OF POWER, and her song CD. Our online payments are handled
through several sites-- through Createspace, a PBS affiliate, and
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The
new Edition of Heritage of
Power is here!!! Order now below--
HERITAGE
OF POWER
Revised Edition ($24.95,
plus S/H, EAN13: 9781892516053)
Same
low Price!-- expanded, updated, new 8.25 x 8.25 book-shelf size with
full bibliography and index. Allow one week or less for delivery.
-A
biography of Mary Pleasant and a social history in one, the book tells
Pleasant's story using the latest research and explains how a unique
religious heritage and a model for social change given by her early
mentor, Marie LaVeaux, helped her earn the title, "Mother of
Civil Rights in California." Forget what you've read about "Mammy
Pleasant," and learn the real story.
The
book also demystifies the life of LaVeaux and her faith, Vodou, now
the national religion of Haiti.
==The
New edition of HERITAGE is on Amazon.com and should soon be available
in Barnes and Noble's extended title base for special order; It will
also be in New Orleans at Voodoo Authentica. Ask your local store
to carry it.
Read more about this book on our Writings
page.
To order HERITAGE OF POWER (Revised Edition) Click
here
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ORDER ONE OF BIBBS' FILMS ON PLEASANT ON DVD below--
MEET MARY PLEASANT
(Mother of Civil Rights)-- NEW lower price! -- 56:31
min.
(Multi-Awardwinning PBS Version)
Bibbs awardwinning performance documentary, narrated
by RUBY DEE, also interweaves SUSHEEL BIBBS' renowned performance
as Pleasant, based on years of research and Pleasant's own words.
The film interweaves commentary by internationally known scholars,
original period photos, enactments, montages, Archival film footage,
animation, and period music (including spirituals sung or hummed by
Bibbs), to reveal Pleasant's true, colorful story. Seven years in
the making and 13 years in research, it's not fiction, but rather,
the colorful history of the abolition, the Underground Railroad, early
SF history, and Civil Rights as a backdrop to Pleasant's inspiring
story. The film reveals Pleasant's most important civil-rights contribution--
a court battle that changed modern civil-rights law. And it addresses
controversies that so long obscured her life. Read reviews
on Amazon.com
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($18.95),
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ORDER MEET MARY PLEASANT FILM
-- WITH BONUS MATERIAL ($20.00 plus $2 s/h)
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Award-winning
HALF HOUR PBS Documentary: THE LEGACY OF MARY ELLEN PLEASANT (26:46
min)
This fast-paced, PBS Short documentary won a silver
TELLY Award in 08--The Northern CA TV Award of merit: Perfect for
an in-class intro to Pleasant, it contains re-enactments and portions
of the longer documentary and Bibbs' chautauqua, but focuses primarily
on commentary by California scholars and Pleasant's most important
civil-rights achievement-- a court battle in the CA State Supreme
Court that changed modern-day civil-rights law. It takes a quick look
at Pleasant's early life and other civil-rights accomplishments too.
-great intro to Pleasant.
Order
here from the PBS Affiliate ($14.95),
www.kviestore.org
FILM: AN UNSUNG MUSE -- Classical Song of Black Composers (DVD,
40 mins. $10, s/h $2.00) -- Available
at 40% discount to libraries, museums, and schools -- DVD (1991 TV
program). -not sold in stores
This performance wonderful documentary presents rare African-American
classical song and is perfect for use by music departments. It features
two hundred years of classical songs by black composers-- performances
by soprano Susheel Bibbs, tenor William Brown and Dr. Helen Dilworth,
Metropolitan Opera star Hilda Harris, composers Jacqueline Hairston
and Olly Wilson, William Duncan Allen, David Tigner, and others. History,
photos,performances, and archival interviews -- a must for educators
and lovers of classical song.
"These are composers of worth!" James Wiezbicki, St.Louis
Post Dispatch. Order An Unsung Muse DVD here:
To request Bibbs' booklet on performing the
spiritual email mepleasant1@yahoo.com
CD - -Bibbs in song! ($8 plus $2 s/h)
Musicale: Susheel Bibbs in concert LIVE with songs from Bach to
Broadway (1998)
Order here: