Books & Borrowing

The Mexican-American civil rights movement (1965-1975) is recorded in this four-part series. Pivotal events concerning land, labor, education, and political empowerment are examined.

Through interviews with Holocaust survivors and witnesses, the living conditions for Jewish and non-Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Europe before and during World War II are examined.

This resource investigates the choices made by the Little Rock Nine and others in the Little Rock community during the civil rights movement during efforts to desegregate Central High School in 1957.

Translated into Spanish, this resource features stories of civic participation and social change that inspire conversation about the importance of participation in our community, nation, and world.

The stories of Rwandan women and men who survived and perpetrated the 1994 genocide reveal the enormous complexity of forgiveness and reconciliation.

This award-winning documentary provides a first-person perspective on the non-violent protests that challenged segregation laws in the South and led to the passage of the Voting RIghts Act in 1965.

This resource provides writing prompts and strategies that align Civil Rights Historical Investigations with the expectations of the Common Core State Standard.

This film examines the motivation behind rescuers assisting victims in Nazi-occupied Europe. What moral and ethical dilemmas did non-Jews face when deciding to engage in rescue work?

Scholars explore the history of the Armenian Genocide, the role of perpetrators and ordinary people, the choices made by Turkey and the United States, and questions of judgment and legacy.

This collection of stories is a tribute to the people, most of them immigrants, who make Queens such a culturally rich community.

Three Jewish women recall their lives as teenagers in occupied Holland, Hungary, and Poland, when they found unexpected ways of fighting back as the Nazis rounded up local Jewish populations.

Use this guide to the documentary film Freedom Riders to help students explore the stories of the brave activists who challenged segregation in the South in 1961.

As Hitler crossed Europe, millions of Jews and political enemies of the Third Reich were exterminated. Yet many more would have died were it not for the bravery of a few foreign service diplomats.

For more than thirty years, Eleanor Roosevelt was America’s most powerful and influential woman. Through interviews and rare home movie footage, this film reveals her hidden dimensions.

A Honduran boy goes on an unforgettable quest looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States.

Viewers on taken on a disturbing voyage through American social history in this documentary, which traces the evolution of anti-black racism through popular culture.

A woman in a hospital, her head wrapped in bandages, awaits the outcome of a surgical procedure performed by the State in a last-ditch attempt to make her look "normal.”

A comprehensive television documentary about the American Civil Rights Movement, utilizing rare historical film and present-day interviews.

The Understanding Evil conference held in Texas examined the nature of evil, speakers discussing racism, cruelty, and the bureaucracy that fostered evil during the Holocaust.

Deepen students' study of South Africa's history of apartheid using this guide to the documentary film Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers.

Explore identity and race through an award-winning documentary about one man's efforts to uncover the history of three families that share his last name.

In Farmingville, New York, tensions rise in the community after an influx of Mexican immigrants move there for work, which ultimately results in vicious hate crimes.