United States [1890-1933]

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American Idealist Lesson 1: What Is an Idealist?
Lesson Plan August 6, 2008
American Idealist Lesson 2: Sargent Shriver and Public Service
Lesson Plan August 6, 2008
American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver
Unit August 6, 2008
Armenian Genocide Lesson Five: American Responses to the Armenian Genocide
Lesson Plan March 19, 2008
Armenian Genocide Lesson Seven: Nation Building
Lesson Plan March 19, 2008
Banished

87 minutes
Source: California Newsreel

In this documentary fimmaker Marco Williams expores three communities that forcibly expelled African American residents between the Civil War and the Great Depression, replacing Reconstruction with Jim Crow laws. The film explores the question of reparations: what do the residents of these now all-white towns owe to the families they drove out? Residents of Pierce City, Missouri; Harrison, Arkansas; and Forsyth County, Georgia are interviewed.

 

Library Resource December 15, 2009
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience

4 episodes, 90 minutes each
Source: PBS Video

What does it mean to become American? In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, Bill Moyers explores this question through the experience of the Chinese in America.

Library Resource December 15, 2009
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community
89 minutes
Source: First Run Features

In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city’s gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun. Before Stonewall pries open the closet door—setting free the dramatic story of the sometimes horrifying public and private existences experienced by gay and lesbian Americans since the 1920s.

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Library Resource December 15, 2009
Bontoc Eulogy

57 minutes
Source: The Cinema Guild

Library Resource December 15, 2009
Chicano!

4 videotapes, 57 minutes each
Source: out of print

Since the time of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848, Mexican Americans have struggled to achieve equality and full rights as citizens of the United States. This 4-part series examines pivotal events concerning land, labor, education, and political empowerment that took place between 1965 and 1975, the period that was the focus of the Mexican-American civil rights movement.

1. Quest for a Homeland

Library Resource December 15, 2009
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