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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (4 video file, approximately 240 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This four part landmark documentary series now a classic for Mexican American history of the U.S., chronicles the struggle for equality and social justice of the Mexican American community in the United States from 1965 to 1975. Produced from Austin Texas by Galán Productions, Inc. It features the Chicano land struggle, Cesar Chavez and the UFW, the Los Angeles High School Walk-outs and the creation of the political party La Raza Unida.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (11 video files, approximately 84 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the twentieth century, oppression and racism were challenged by courage, leadership and a dream. The crusade for freedom promised to unite the nation and threatened to tear it apart. This important documentary program explores the dramatic quest for African-American equality in vivid detail, from post-Civil War Reconstruction through the revolutionary 1960s and the subsequent rise of Black Power..
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, no force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. But there was nothing predestined about the victory: a phalanx of powerful senators, pledging...
9) Human rights
Series
Publisher
Social Issues Resources Series, inc
Pub. Date
[1978?-]
Physical Desc
v. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Galán Incorporated
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Examines the beginnings of the movement by profiling Reies Lopez Tijerina and the land grant movement in New Mexico in 1966 and 1967. It shows how Tijerina's fight to convince the federal government to honor the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) galvanized Mexicans and Mexican Americans across the Southwest. It then moves on to discuss Rodolfo (Corky) Gonzales and his founding of the Crusade for Justice in Denver in 1966. Focusing on the importance...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin2s original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism. In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends--Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
vi, 280 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Pivoting between the voices of a father and son, this unique work of oral history and memoir chronicles the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s through the words and experiences of one of its core architects.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 116 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states -- even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death.
18) The third reconstruction: Moral Mondays, fusion politics, and the rise of a new justice movement
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvi, 151 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2013, Moral Mondays gained national attention as tens of thousands of citizens protested the extreme makeover of North Carolina's state government and over a thousand people were arrested in the largest mass civil disobedience movement since the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960. Every Monday for 13 weeks, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber led a revival meeting on the state house lawn that brought together educators and the unemployed, civil...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxv, 277 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the author's experiences after moving to America to pursue a safer life, from her renewed contact with her family after her father's death to her struggles to embrace new principles in the face of attempts to prohibit her work.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1964, the civil rights community is gearing up for "Mississippi Freedom Summer," during which hundreds, if not thousands, of mostly white student activists from the North will link up with mostly black freedom workers to accomplish what the Mississippi power structure fears the most: registering black people to vote. For the segregationists, Freedom Summer is nothing less than a declaration of war. The state responds by swearing in...
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