United States [1933-1945]

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A Portrait of Maya Angelou

58 minutes
Source: Social Studies School Services

Library Resource February 3, 2010
A World on Display

53 minutes

Library Resource December 15, 2009
After a Fight to Survive, One to Succeed
(New York Times, March 9, 2008) The article, "After a Fight to Survive, One to Succeed," tells the story of the hardships Jewish immigrants to the United States endured after surviving the Nazis.
Facing Today March 27, 2008
America and the Holocaust Study Guide

America and the HolocaustThis study guide accompanies the documentary America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference and offers a disturbing look at the choices Americans made at a time when the Germans were labeling, isolating, humiliating, and eventually murdering European Jews and others they considered "undesirable.

Publication January 24, 2008
America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

81 minutes, black & white and color
Source: Social Studies School Service

Library Resource December 15, 2009
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
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
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