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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
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today.
23) The help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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
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
Freedom Archives
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Formats
Description
Symbols of Resistance illuminates the untold stories of the Chican@ Movement with a focus on events in Colorado and New Mexico. The film engages student activists, the effect of police repression, and how issues of identity, land, and community still resonate in the Chican@ struggles of today. Through interviews with those who shaped the movement and rare historical footage, Symbols of Resistances offers a window into a dynamic moment in history and...
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...
29) Promise: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"New England, 1957. The Kindred sisters--Ezra and Cinthy--grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful village perched high up on coastal bluffs. But as the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Few places are more notorious for civil rights-era violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" murders. Yet in a striking turn of events, Philadelphia has become a beacon in Mississippi's racial reckoning in the decades since. Claire Whitlinger investigates how this community came to acknowledge its past, offering significant insight into the social impacts of commemoration. Whitlinger expands our understanding...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion--or worse--from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond...
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
[4], 321 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Maps the immigrant-rights movement through first-person tales of grassroots organizations across the country that are resisting state repression, cultivating solidarity, and building alternative models for progressive social change.--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Long before the uprising at the Capitol, the threat of insurrection has held a mirror to America's highest ideals and deepest fears. The Insurrection Act of 1807-passed amid pervasive fears of slave rebellion-authorizes the president to deploy federal troops to quell domestic uprisings. Invoked during Reconstruction and the civil rights movement, the Act was deployed to enforce the promise of equal citizenship for Black Americans. But the Act has...
34) I have a dream
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
An illustrated edition of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech, with the official recording from the March on Washington, delivered August 28, 1963.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The religious underpinnings of a forgotten civil rights conflict. From the early 1900s, liberal Protestants grafted social welfare work onto spiritual concerns on both sides of the Pacific. Their goal: to forge links between whites and Asians that countered anti-Asian discrimination in the United States. Their test: uprooting racial hatreds that, despite their efforts, led to the shameful incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II. Sarah...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxix, 239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the Civil Rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In the era of Trump, what can we learn from his struggle? "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." --James Baldwin We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to...
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