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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Slavery by Another Name, narrated by Laurence Fishburne, is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South after the Civil War, new systems of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force and brutality. The film documents how for more than 80 years, thousands...
Publisher
The Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When the son of a Civil Rights Hero dives into the 400 year history of institutional racism in America he is confronted with the shocking reality that his family helped start it all from the very beginning. A comprehensive and insightful exploration of the origins and history of racism in America told through a very personal and honest story.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Few judges provoke the ire of conservatives more than Thelton Henderson, Senior Judge of the Federal District Court of Northern California. His career in many ways parallels the larger historic arc of the Civil Rights movement and the changing vision of government - from Jim Crow laws to Civil Rights victories and back again with recent attacks on affirmative action. Similarly reflected are the changes and conflicts in judicial philosophy during those...
Author
Publisher
Curious Fox Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Young readers learn about peaceful protest methods such as marches, rallies, sit-ins, and more! They will also learn about influential individuals such as Gandhi, Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Events include abolitionists handing out newspapers demanding the end of slavery, Dr. Martin Luther King's efforts to desegregate busses in Montgomery, Black Lives Matter and more"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"--
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching...
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Introduces young readers to the beginning of the civil rights movement. Discusses how Harry S. Truman supported the rights of Black Americans, whom were struggling to end discrimination and segregation.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"From a venerated and bestselling voice on American life comes a contemporary look at the decline of black rage; the demise of white guilt; and the intergenerational shifts in how blacks and whites view, and interact with, each other"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"In a series of interviews given in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Angela Y. Davis explores how historical systems of oppression like slavery and lynching continue to influence and undermine democracy today. Davis builds on W. E. B. DuBois's view that when people were released from slavery in this country, they were denied the full privileges of other citizens. This denial of full rights and the creation of a U.S. prison system emerged...
13) Civil rights
Series
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
A compilation of talks on civil rights in American history from National Public Radio, featuring personal recollections along with historical accounts from segments of "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition," "Weekend Edition Saturday," Weekend Edition Sunday," "Talk of the Nation," "News & Notes," and "Tell Me More."
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, the author focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
20) Freedom riders
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of a group of civil rights activists who travelled by bus in the South during 1961 to challenge segregated travel facilities.
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