Diversity DVD Library
Civil Rights
1. America鈥檚 Civil Rights Movement (DVD & VHS 鈥� 38 min.s 鈥� Discussion
Kit) This video depicts the battle for civil rights as told by it
foot soldiers. They rode where they weren鈥檛 supposed to ride; walked where
they weren鈥檛 supposed to walk; sat where they weren鈥檛 supposed to sit. And
they stood their ground until they won their freedom.
2. A Place at the Table (DVD & VHS 鈥� 40 min.s - Discussion Kit) This
video spans three centuries to show how individuals and groups have
toppled barriers in education, transportation, voting, employment, housing
and other areas to become full participants in our democracy.
3. A Time for
Justice (DVD 鈥� 38 min.s ) Film depicts the battle for civil rights as told
by its foot soldiers. They rode where they weren't supposed to ride;
walked where they weren't supposed to walk; sat where they weren't
supposed to sit. And they stood their ground until they won their freedom.
Produced by three-time Academy Award winner Charles Guggenheim, A Time for Justice recalls
the crises in Montgomery,
Little Rock, Birmingham and Selma. But more importantly, it reveals the
heroism of individuals who risked their lives for the cause of freedom and
equality. The film opens at the cemetery where Jimmie Lee Jackson is
buried. Jackson was killed by state troopers during a voting rights
demonstration in Marion,
Alabama. The words of one who remembered Jackson lead us into a compelling
story of a people's transcendent courage.
4. Children鈥檚
March
(DVD 40 min.s) The Academy Award-winning,40 minute documentary
film, Might Times: The Children March tells the story of how young people of Birmingham, Alabama,
braved fire hoses and police dogs in 1963 and brought segregation to its
knees. The heroism moved President Kennedy to introduce the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, a key piece of federal legislation that transformed
not just the south but the entire nation.
5. Mendez
vs. Westminster (DVD 45
min.s) Seven years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Mendez vs.
Westminster began unraveling of school segregation in the U.S.
Among many surprises, two key persons played important roles in both
cases; NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, who later argued and won Brown
vs. Board of Education; and then Governor Earl Warren who desegregated
California as a result of Mendez and later, as Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court wrote the Brown decision.
Seven years before Brown v. Board of Education,
Mendez vs. Westminster began unraveling of school segregation in the
U.S. Among many surprises, two key persons played important roles in
both cases; NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, who later argued and won
Brown v. Board of Education; and then-Governor Earl Warren who
designated California as a result of Mendez and later, as Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court wrote the Brown decision. Mendez vs.
Westminster is the award winning Public Television documentary that
tells the story of this little known; but important chapter of American
civil-rights history. 2007 marked the 60-year anniversary of the
Mendez decision, and the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp to honor
this historic contribution to our
schools.
6. Viva
La Causa (DVD 39 min.s) On a
warm evening in 1965, hundreds of Mexican farm workers packed into a
church hall in the small farming town of Delano, California. A
momentous decision lay before them, should they join a strike against
California grape growers started 11 days prior by their Filipino
counterparts. Would this improve their appalling working
conditions in the fields and help them earn enough to feed their
families? Viva
La Causa tells the story of how the powerless stood up
in the powerful and gained their victory, not by violence and weapons;
but by their strong
will.
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