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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
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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