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Summer Institute at GMU Prince William campus:

Resources for Teaching Civil Rights History

I. General Resources

a. Books

  • Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth-Century
  • Eric Foner, The Story of Freedom

b. Films and Documentaries

  • School Colors, Frontline Series, PBS Video
  • L.A. is Burning: Five Reports from a Divided City, PBS Video

c. Websites

II. African American

a. Books

  • John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
  • Adam Fairclough, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

b. Films and Documentaries

  • Eyes on the Prize Series, PBS Video
  • Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice, American Experience, PBS Video
  • Two Nations of Black America, Frontline Series, PBS Series
  • The Long Walk Home
  • Out of Obscurity: The Story of the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In
  • Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore
  • Two Towns of Jasper, POV Series, PBS Video
  • The Murder of Emmett Till, American Experience, PBS Video
  • Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, POV Series, PBS Video
  • Four Little Girls

c. Websites

III. Arab American

a. Books

  • Abraham, Sameer and Abraham, Nabeel, eds. The Arab World and Arab-Americans: Understanding a Neglected Minority
  • Gregory Orfalea, Before the Flames: A Quest for the History of Arab-Americans

b. Films and Documentaries

  • Tales from Arab Detroit

c. Websites

IV. Asian American

a. Books

  • Angelo N. Anchita, Race, Rights, and the Asian-American Experience

b. Films and Documentaries

  • Who Killed Vincent Chin?
  • Of Civil Rights and Wrongs: The Fred Korematsu Story
  • A Family Gathering

c. Websites

V. Disability Rights

a. Books

  • Joseph P. Shapiro, No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

b. Films and Documentaries

  • Children of a Lesser God
  • Door to Door

c. Websites

VI. Gay and Lesbian Rights

a. Books

  • John D’Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities

b. Films and Dicumentaries

  • Before Stonewall
  • After Stonewall
  • Scout’s Honor

c. Websites

VII. Hispanic/Latino

a. Books

  • Francisco Rosales, Chicano!: The History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement
  • Robert J. Rosenbaum, Mexicano Resistance in the Southwest

b. Films and Documentaries

  • Chicano!: The History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement, PBS Video

c. Websites

VIII. Native American

a. Books

  • Paul Chaat Smith, Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
  • Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins

b. Films and Documentaries

  • The Spirit of Crazy Horse
  • In Whose Honor?: American Indian Mascots in Sports
  • In the White Man’s Image, American Experience, PBS Video

c. Websites

IX. Prison Rights

a. Books

  • Eric Cummins, The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement

b. Films and Documentaries

  • Dead Man Walking
  • The Case for Innocence, Frontline Series, PBS Video
  • What Jennifer Saw, Frontline Series, PBS Video
  • Angel on Death Row, Frontline Series, PBS Video
  • Shakedown in Sante Fe, Frontline Series, PBS Video

c. Websites

X. Women’s Rights

a. Books

  • Estelle B. Freedman, No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
  • Linda Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
  • Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America

b. Films and Documentaries

  • The Way Home
  • Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, American Experience, PBS Video

c. Websites

Download the Suzanne Smith Bibliography

 

 

 
   
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