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Below are recommended books, videos and CD's that will expand your knowledge
of the Civil Rights Movement. We must stay informed and inform our
children about past and present struggles for social equality.
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The Civil Rights Movement : A
Photographic History, 1954-68
by Steven Kasher, Myrlie Evers-Williams (Introduction)
If you want to "see" what the Civil Rights Movement was all about this book is a
must. It features a collection of 150 photographs--introduced by text--which chronicles
the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Summer, local and national movements, and the marches
and speeches of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
This evocative book is among the first to tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement
through inspiring and striking photographs. It will provide you and your family an
opportunity to visually share in the joy, pain and sacrifices of the Civil Rights
Movement. Buy this book today and "see" the images of how far we've come and how
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$39.95
This book is a must for anyone interested in learning about the
Civil Rights Movement.
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The Civil Rights Movement
by Peter B. Levy
The Civil Rights Movement is a one-stop guide to the entire Civil Rights Movement.
It includes clear analysis and ready reference components and is perfect for secondary
school and college student research. Combining narrative description, analytical essays,
chronology, biographical profiles, and the text of key primary documents, this work fills
a gap in the existing literature.
Drawing on the most recent research, Levy, author of the acclaimed Documentary History of
the Modern Civil Rights Movement, provides an outstanding chronicle of the Civil Rights
movement, its development, issues, and leaders. Six essays analyze the crucial aspects of
the movement, including a concluding essay that assesses its legacy.
Ready reference features include: a chronology of events; lengthy biographical profiles of
20 key civil rights activists; the text of 15 seminal documents valuable for student
research; a glossary of selected terms; and an annotated bibliography of recommended
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$28.95
This book sheds new light on the role of women in the Civil Rights
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Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights
Movement
by Zita Allen
Historians have largely overlooked the important role women played in the
Civil Rights Movement, partly because women were generally relegated to such
behind-the-scenes tasks as fund-raising and assisting male leaders. But Allen also cites
examples of women playing larger roles, sometimes with men--among them, Martin Luther King
Jr.--actually given the credit. Such information makes this book as much about the
struggle for gender equality as it is about civil rights, and that, along with Allen's
inclusion of lesser-known black women activists, is what sets it apart from the many books
on the movement.
Reader comments , August 7, 1997
... Breaks New Ground ...
Zita Allen brilliantly portrays the lives and times of some of the women who were an
integral part of the civil rights movement. Allen takes a new perspective on an issue that
has been covered in so many different ways, and she does it effectively. A must for
classrooms.
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$159.95
(7-video tapes)
This gripping 7-tape video series will put
you on the frontline of the Civil Rights Movement.
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will be moved by the sacrifices of the freedom fighters of the past.
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Eyes on the Prize I & II -
Video Series (7-tapes)
This is the definitive video on the Civil Rights Movement. Read what people are
saying about this video series.
A viewer from Franklin Park, NJ , November 26, 1998:
Eyes On The Prize is by far the best recorded history of the civil rights movement. An
Emmy winning documentary, parents, churches and schools can successfully use as a tool to
fully explain the most important era in our nation's history. In a time when young people
are apathetic toward other's ethnicity, Eyes on the Prize can be a bridge toward their
greater understanding of the struggles of people of color. Parents of all ethnicity's
should ensure that their children fully understand tolerance and respect toward others and
this documentary is the answer.
Ernest Jackson from Lakewood, Ohio , July 7, 1999:
Should be an American requirement!!!
The most powerful documentary on the civil rights era!!!
Ebony Durry from Sao Paulo, BRAZIL , October 1, 1999:
How to survive BLACK and PROUD in a White oriented society!
All the people of color in the world should have the whole set of this video collection at
hand, for all the generations to come!!!!
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Price:
$19.95
(plus $4 s/h)
This video will touch your heart. It provides a rare
glimpse into the lives of those who of lived and suffered through the Civil Rights
struggle.
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4 Little Girls (1998)
Directed by Spike Lee
There are many remarkable things about the documentary 4 Little Girls. Spike Lee's
striking, beautifully realized film is a cinematic lesson of what kind of material is
better suited to the documentary format. In his first documentary, Lee shares an attribute
of Ken Burns: the major event in his documentary is not seen on camera.
Except for four quick glimpses of black-and-white autopsy photos, the picture stays clear
from the bombing. Lee remains with the faces, the girls' friends, families, and the
historic figures of the era. They've all grown up since the bombing but their
memories haven't faded.
The vital facts of the case are certainly here: the troubled history of Birmingham, the
court proceedings, friends' last run-ins with the girls. What touches us deeper though are
those witnesses telling us of living through the core era of segregation and bigotry: a
father explaining to his child why she can't have a sandwich in a cafeteria and a woman
offering up tears of past events.
There's even an interview with George Wallace, the prince of segregation, that
vividly illustrates the mood of the day. Lee's film asserts that the bombing energized the civil rights movement
and in retrospect it's obvious that he's right.
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Price:
$149.95
(6-video tapes)
When this series first aired, I was in
the 8th grade. I wasn't prepared, as no one was, for what was about the
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Roots:
The Television Miniseries Gift Set
From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home
in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in
America, a line is begun that leads from this most shameful chapter in U.S. history to the
20th-century author Alex Hailey, a Kinte descendant. The late Hailey's acclaimed book Roots was
adapted into this six-volume television miniseries, which was a widely watched phenomenon in
1977. The programs cover several generations in the antebellum South and end with the story of
"Chicken" George, a freed slave played by Ben Vereen whose family feels the agony of entrenched
racism and learns to fight it. Between the lives of Kunta and George, we meet a number of
memorable characters, black and white, and learn much about the emotional and physical torments
of slavery, from beatings and rapes to the forced separation of spouses and families. Nothing like
this had ever confronted so many mainstream Americans when the series was originally broadcast,
and the extent to which the country was nudged a degree or two toward enlightenment was instantly
obvious. Roots still has that ability to open one's eyes, and engage an audience in a sweeping,
memorable drama at the same time.
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Price: $24.95
Throughout
the Civil Rights Movement, music and especially spirituals have played a
key role in fostering hope and creating unity. This 2-CD set contains the gospel spirituals and folk
songs that captured the mood of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Voices Of The Civil Rights
Movement:
Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966
Various Artists
For anyone interested in the music surrounding the freedom struggle of the 1960's this
2-CD set, originally released in 1980, is essential listening. The first disc features
recordings made in the South during the mid sixties and captures the importance of music
at the mass meetings and rallies.
The second disc with ensemble recordings shows the skill of the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) singing groups. The set is accompanied by extensive liner
notes by Bernice Johnson Reagan, herself a member of a SNCC singing group. She draws out
not only the historical references in the songs, but also the different African American
musical influences at play.
The 2-CD set contains over 40 songs including:
This Little Light Of Mine - Freedom Singers
99 1/2 Won't Do - Alabama Christian Movement Choir Led By Carlton Reese
Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Freedom - SNCC Freedom Singers
Get On Board, Children - Willie Peacock
Oh Freedom - Hollis Watkins
Walk With Me, Lord - Fannie Lou Hamer
Been In The Storm So Long - Bernice Johnson
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