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Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
Malcolm X Day: Movies & Documentaries
Recommended Movies by Black Directors
Malcolm X Day: Movies & Documentaries
Recommended Movies by Black Directors
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
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also includes interviews with political leaders, colleagues, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2016.
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
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the thousands of enslaved and free African Americans living in this country. But African Americans took up their own fight for freedom by joining the British and American armies; preaching, speaking out, and writing about the evils of slavery; and establishing settlements in Nova Scotia and Africa. The thirteen...
70) The chamber
Author
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi, a young lawyer races against time to save his grandfather from the gas chamber. The grandfather was tried three times for a Ku Klux Klan bombing which killed two civil rights workers in 1967. He was found innocent twice, but guilty the third time. By the author of A Time To Kill.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
She put her life on the line and nearly lost it in the name of equality. Readers meet the outspoken civil rights activist whose speech appeared on national television despite President Johnson's attempts to block it, inspiring the Freedom Democrats as Fannie Lou Hamer took a stand for equal voting rights.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Daniels, a white seminary student from New Hampshire, traveled to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to help with voter registration of black residents. After the voting rights marches, he remained in Alabama, in the area known as "Bloody Lowndes," an extremely dangerous area for white freedom fighters, to assist civil rights workers. Five months later, Jonathan Daniels was shot and killed while saving the life of Ruby Sales, a black teenager. Through...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
Martin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley recounts the final 365 days of King's life, revealing the minister's trials and tribulations. denunciations...
75) King
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A powerful portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and events of the Civil Rights Movement leading up to his assassination.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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.
Series
Black American experience volume 1
Publisher
TMW Media Group
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and work of African-American journalist, Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), a community organizer, grass roots leader and precursor of the modern civil rights movement who waged a relentless public battle against the injustices of lynching and violence against Blacks.
Profiles the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, her struggles and triumphs. She is remembered for winning the right to vote for Black Americans and exposing America's poverty by giving...
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