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Africans in America

4 episodes, 90 minutes each on 4 VHS or 2 DVDs
Source: PBS Video

Africans in America considers the contradictions that lie at the heart of the founding of the American nation. The infant democracy pronounced all men to be created equal while enslaving one race to benefit another. In four 90-minute programs, this series explores the impact of slavery on Americans—black and white—from the first English settlement in 1607 to the brink of civil war in 1861.

1. The Terrible Transformation (1607-1750)

 Library Resource December 15, 2009

Armenian Genocide Lesson Two: We and They, the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire locked

 Lesson Plan March 19, 2008

Armenian Genocide Lesson Two: We and They, the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire locked

 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: Immigration Experiences
 Lesson Plan March 26, 2008
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
Bill Moyers on Confronting our Past
 Video Clip June 8, 2009
Brother Future

110 minutes
Source: Facets

T.J., a young man from contemporary Detroit, is knocked unconscious while fleeing the police after committing a crime. He wakes up in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822 and is taken captive as a slave. Before he can get home, T.J. must learn some hard lessons about the history of his fellow African Americans, the value of education, and what it takes to keep the dream of freedom alive.

 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
Culture Shock

270 minutes on 4 VHS tapes
Source: PBS Video

This four-part series explores the often uneasy role of the arts in society through a series of controversial works and genres.

1. Born to Trouble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (90 minutes)

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
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