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THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 4 episodes - 56 minutes each, 2002,  |
| Emancipation ended slavery but only to replace it an American form of apartheid, euphemistically known as Jim Crow, used to keep African Americans as second class citizens. This four-part series constitutes a major cinematic achievement covering the years between Reconstruction and Civil Rights. MORE... |
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THE ROAD TO BROWN
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 1990 |
| The history of segregation sanctioned by the 1898 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, and the visionary legal campaign against it that led to the triumph of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. MORE... |
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SANGO MALO
(The Village Teacher)
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 94 minutes, Cameroon, 1991, in French with English subtitles |
| A story about a village teacher who introduces education for local self-development explores the relationships between progressive activists, entrenched social interests, traditional belief system and rural Africans. MORE... |
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SKIN DEEP
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 53 minutes, 1995,
Facilitator Guide Available |
| A multi-racial group of college students in a weekend racial sensitivity workshop discuss affirmative action, self-segregation, internalized racism and cultural identity. MORE... |
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A SON OF AFRICA
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 28 minutes, 1996
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| A reconstruction of the first influential slave narrative, the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, which helped raise the conscience of Europe and America against slavery, includes commentary by scholars explaining the wider context of the Triangular Trade. MORE... |
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SOUL OF JUSTICE: THELTON HENDERSON'S AMERICAN JOURNEY
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 60 minutes, 2005,
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| Soul of Justice is a story of race, justice and judgment - both personal and legal. It is the story of the conflicts and contradictions faced by a Black judge working in the nearly all-white world of American jurisprudence. MORE... |
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STRANGE FRUIT
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 57 minutes, 2002, |
| The story behind Billie Holiday's signature song examines the history of lynching, and the interplay of race, labor and the left, and popular culture as forces that would give rise to the Civil Rights Movement. MORE... |
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LA VIE EST BELLE
(Life is Rosy)
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 85 minutes, Congo / Belgium, 1987, in French with English subtitles |
| Soukous music legend, Papa Wemba, stars in the rags to riches story of a poor country musician who seeks fame in the vibrant music industry of Kinshasa. MORE... |
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W.E.B. DU BOIS:A BIOGRAPHY IN FOUR VOICES
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 116 minutes, 1995 |
| Four leading African American writers, Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara and Amiri Baraka, lead us through Du Bois's life and work and describe his impact on their work MORE... |
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WHAT'S RACE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 49 minutes, 2006,
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| Ten years after Skin Deep, a new documentary film chronicles the experiences of a diverse group of college students - in this case, led by veteran UC Berkeley facilitators over the course of a semester - as they confront race, diversity, and their own responsibility for making a difference. MORE... |
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