Delve Deeper Into American Civil Rights And The Question Of Race

This multimedia resource list http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ Frazier, E. Franklin. Black Bourgeoisie: artist Barbara Ward, age 60. Their two- provides a range of perspectives scottsboro The Rise of a New Middle Class in the decade romance has been a creative on the issues raised by four Scottsboro: An American Tragedy. United States. New York: Free Press, partnership yielding new work and an upcoming P.O.V./PBS programs: 1957. outpouring of memories. Their experiences "Fenceline: A Company Town are captured in Armstrong's lively “Fenceline” Divided" by Slawomir Grunberg Goldfield, David R. Black, White, and paintings and stories of nearly a century by Slawomir Grünberg with with Jane Greenberg (July 23rd Southern: Race Relations and Southern of American life. As they take on life's Jane Greenberg 10pm), "Sweet Old Song" by Leah Culture, 1940 to the Present. Baton challenges, Howard and Barbara defy our Mahan (July 30th), "Two Towns of Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University most basic assumptions about what it Norco, Louisiana is a true company Jasper" by Whitney Dow and Marco Press, 1990. means to grow older. An Independent town. Named after a refinery now Williams (Fall special), and Television Service (ITVS) and National owned by Shell Oil, Norco is home to "Brother Outsider: The Life of Jones, Jacqueline. The Dispossessed: Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) two distinct communities-one black and Bayard Rustin" by Nancy Kates and America's Underclasses from the Civil Co-presentation one white. Though separated by mere Bennett Singer (Special). Each of War to the Present. New York: Basic blocks, their realities are worlds apart. these explores civil rights and civil Books, 1992. A P.O.V. premiere on PBS, Tuesday, Nowhere is this clearer than in each discrimination in the United States. July 30th, 2002, 10:00 p.m. (check community's response to possible (check local listings). McLaurin, Melton Alonza. Separate your local listings) links between the company's activities Pasts: Growing Up White in the and the townspeople's illnesses. Segregated South. Athens, GA: ADULT NONFICTION ON CIVIL African-American residents, who believe University of Georgia Press, 1998, 2nd ADULT FICTION RIGHTS pollution is increasing as their health edition. goes downhill, demand to be relocated, With the exception of Major's Dirty These accounts of the Civil Rights led by the indefatigable Margie Richard. Robertson, James Oliver and Janet C. Bird Blues that relates the tough, Era are just a few of the books The white neighborhoods, largely Robertson. All Our Yesterdays: A gritty life of a young, black musician, that portray a momentous time of home to employees of Norco, see Century of Family Life in an American these novels revolve around aging great social change in America's no problems, and neither does the Small Town. New York: Harper Collins, issues among African-Americans. history. company. A modern David and Goliath 1993. story, “Fenceline” shows how one small Brown, John Gregory. The Wrecked, Burns, Stewart. Social Movements of community and one big corporation BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur. Boston: the 1960s: Searching for Democracy. struggle to come to terms. An Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990. Independent Television Service (ITVS) These stories aimed at teenagers and National Black Programming and children provide rich, Ellison, Ralph. Juneteenth: A Novel. New Carson, Clayborne et al, editors. 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San Francisco: Mercury House, 1996. discrimination based on York: Dutton Children's Books, 1998. geographical location and biases Kronenwetter, Michael. Prejudice in Mosley, Walter. RL's Dream. New York: cultivated by ignorance and hatred. Meyer, Carolyn. White Lilacs. San Diego: America: Causes and Cures. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993. W.W. Norton, 1995. F. Watts, 1993. Campbell, Bebe Moore. Brothers and Raschka, Christopher. Yo! Yes? New Sisters. New York: Putnam's, 1994. ADULT NONFICTION Perlmutter, Philip. Divided We Fall: A York: Scholastic, 1993. [picture book] History of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Chesnutt, Charles. The House Behind Most of these titles, including Maya Prejudice in America. Ames, IA: Iowa Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Dangerous the Cedars. New York: Houghton Mifflin, Angelou's classic autobiographical State University, 1992. Skies. New York: Farrar, Straus, and 1901. work, provide facts and insights Giroux, 1996. San Juan, E., Jr. Racism and Cultural regarding aging and its related Groom, Winston. As Summers Die. New ramifications and stereotypes. Studies: Critique and Multicultural Taylor, Mildred. The Land. New York: York: Summit Books, 1980. Peretti's work is a nice complement Ideology and the Politics of Difference. Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2001. Durham, NC: Duke University, 2002. to the musical background of "Sweet Guidry, Jacqueline. The Year the Colored Old Song." Sisters Came to Town. New York: Woodson, Jacqueline. The Other Side. Weisbrot, Robert. Freedom Bound: A New York: Putnam's, 2001. [picture Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged History of America's Civil Rights book] Movement. New York: Norton, 1990. Bird Sings. New York: Random House, Lamar, Jake. The Last Integrationist. 1969. New York: Crown Publishers, 1996. POPULAR MOVIES WEBSITES TO FIND INFORMATION Cole, Thomas R. The Journey of Life: A ON CIVIL RIGHTS McLarey, Myra. Water from the Well. These three commercially successful Cultural History of Aging in America. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. feature films provide gripping plots Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, The civil rights websites listed that pit communities against 1992. below have been selected from the Straight, Susan. The Gettin' Place. New powerful corporations. "Librarians' Index to the Internet" York: Hyperion, 1996. Fischer, David Hackett. Growing Old in site at http://lii.org/, a resource "A Civil Action." A film by Steven America. New York: Oxford University used by librarians and the general Zallian. Burbank, CA: Touchstone Home Press, 1978. public as an efficient and reliable ADULT NONFICTION Video, 1999. (115 min). guide to Internet resources. Peretti, Burton W. The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban From Frazier's 1957 classic "Black "Erin Brokovich." A film by Steven http://www.aclu.org/ America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Bourgeoisie" to Luke and Foster's Soderbergh. Universal City, CA: American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Press, 1992. 2002 publication of "From the Universal Studios Home Video, 2000. Network. Ground Up," these titles provide (132 min). engrossing reading on racism http://www.tulane.edu/~amistad BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS viewed from environmental, "Silkwood" A film by Mike Nichols. Amistad Research Center. Stamford. CT: Summa Video, 1983. (131 geographical, and socioeconomic Children will embrace these stories standpoints. Racial issues in small min). http://www.civilrights.org/ that portray the aging process with towns as well as big cities are Civil rights news and organizations grace, dignity, and honesty. documented. "Sweet Old Song" by Leah Mahan http://www.sitins.com/ Mitchell, Margaree King. Granddaddy's Bullard, Robert D., editor. Confronting Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Gift. Mahwah, NJ: Bridgewater Books, Environmental Racism: Voices from the Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong has Rights Movement. 1996. [picture book] Grassroots. Boston: South End Press, been performing for most of his 91 1993. years, ever since his father carved his http://www.usdoj.gov.kidspage/in Polacco, Patricia. Chicken Sunday. New dex.html first fiddle from a wooden crate. “Sweet York: Philomel Books, 1992. [picture Cole, Luke W.; Foster, Shelia R. From Justice for Kids and Youth. Old Song” plays like one of the ballads book] the Ground Up:Environmental Racism that flow effortlessly from the funny and the Rise of the Environmental http://centralhigh57.org/ and irrepressible Armstrong. At the Thomas, Rob. Slave Day. New York: Justice Movement. New York: New York Little Rock Nine. film's center are the two great loves Simon & Schuster Books for Young University Press, 2001. Readers, 1997. of Howard's life: his music and Delve Deeper Into American Civil Rights And The Question Of Race

POPULAR MOVIES Hirsch, James S. Riot and Remembrance: Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy. drew Martin Luther King Jr. and other “Golden Threads” provides the Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. leaders to him in the 1940's and 50's; These fiction and non-fiction books viewer with a groundbreaking, his practice of those beliefs drew the for children and young adults intergenerational picture of McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home: attention of the FBI and police. But provide memorable images of the sexuality, life choices, and aging. Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic his open homosexuality forced his to Civil Rights Movement and the The other three films show the Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. New remain in the as a "brother outsider." people who helped to shape it. strong ethnic influences that have York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. "Brother Outsider" combines rare archival molded American music. footage-some of it never before broadcast Gallan, David, editor. Malcolm A to X: Shapiro, Herbert. White Violence and Black in the U.S.- with provocative interviews to The Man and His Ideas. New York: "Buena Vista Social Club." Response From Reconstruction to illuminate the life and work of a forgotten Carroll & Graf, 1992. A film by Wim Wenders. Santa Montgomery. Amherst, MA: University of prophet of social change. An Independent Monica, CA: Artisan Entertainment, Massachusetts, 1988. Television Service (ITVS) and National Haskins, James. Bayard Rustin: Behind 1999. (105 min.) Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement. Swindle, Howard. Deliberate Indifference: Co-presentation New York: Hyperion Books for Children, "Golden Threads." A film by Lucy A Story of Murder and Racial Injustice. 1997. Winer and Karen Eaton. New York: New York: Viking, 1993. A P.O.V. premiere on PBS, in the Women Make Movies, 1998. (56 min). Winter (check your local listings) Klass, David. Danger Zone. New York: P.O.V. Season 12. Temple-Raston, Dina. A Death in Texas: A Scholastic, 1996. Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's "Lady Sings the Blues." A film by Struggle for Redemption. New York: Henry ADULT FICTION Loribecki, Marybeth. Sister Anne's Sidney J. Furie. Hollywood: Paramount Holt & Company, 2002. Hands. New York: Dial Books for Young Pictures. 1992, c1972. (144 min). Bayard Rustin was discriminated Readers, 1998. [picture book] against not only for the color of his "The Mambo Kings." A film by Jack BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS skin but also because he was openly Powledge, Fred. Free at Last? The Civil Bernstein. Burbank, CA: Warner Home gay. While American civil rights are Rights Movement and the People Who Video, 1992. (104 min). These books treat racial violence and most commonly associated with race Made It. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991. prejudice in a format that children can or racial issues, our civil rights are relate and comprehend. also related to issues surrounding Taylor, Mildred D. The Gold Cadillac. New "Two Towns of Jasper." gender, sexual orientation, and York: Dial Books for Young Readers, by Whitney Dow and Marco Armstrong, William Howard. Sounder. New physical or mental handicaps. 1987. Williams. York: Harper & Row, 1969. Covington, Vickie. The Last Hotel for Wiles, Debbie. Freedom Summer. New In 1998 in Jasper, Texas, James Byrd, Campbell, Bebe Moore. Your Blues Ain't Women: A Novel. New York: Simon & York: Atheneum Books for Young Jr., a black man, was chained to a Like Mine. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, Schuster, 1996. Readers, 2001. [picture book] pick-up truck and dragged to his 1992. death by three white men. The Gaines, Ernest J. In My Father's House. town was forever altered, and the Krisher, Trudy. Fences Spite. New York: New York: Knopf, 1978. POPULAR MOVIES nation woke up to the horror of a Delacorte Press, 1994. modern-day lynching. In “Two Towns Pinckney, Darryl. High Cotton. New York: The two Stonewall films provide Of Jasper”, two film crews, one black Littlesugar, Amy. Freedom School, Yes! Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. rousing historical documentaries and one white, set out to document New York: Philomel Books, 2001. [picture of the gay and lesbian rights the aftermath of the murder by book] Raines, Howell. My Soul is Rested. New movement from the 1940's to 1969 following the subsequent trials of the York: Putnam, 1977. (Before Stonewall) and from 1970 local men charged with the crime. Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My to the end of the century (After The result is an explicit and troubling Cry. New York: Dial Press, 1976. Shange, Ntozaoke. Liliane: Resurrection of Stonewall). "Tongues Untied" portrait of race in America, one that the Daughter. New York: St. Martin's, revolves around the derogatory asks how and why a crime like this 1994. accusations, judgments, and labels could have occurred. An Independent that society places on black male Television Service (ITVS) and National POPULAR MOVIES Williams, Dennis A. Crossover. New York: homosexuals. "Eyes on the Prize" Black Programming Consortium Summit Books, 1992. consists of 14 videos telling the (NBPC) Co-presentation and an Spike Lee's documentary on the 1963 story of America's civil rights years Active Voice selection church bombing in Birmingham and from 1954 through the mid 1980's. four other Academy Award winning ADULT NONFICTION Spike Lee's production and direction A P.O.V. premiere on PBS, in the films provide powerful testaments to of the movie about civil rights Winter (check local listings) the destruction and horror of racial The life and writings of Bayard Rustin activist Malcolm X is excellent as is hatred and violence. and other courageous leaders are Attenborough's depiction of Gandhi highlighted in these works that detail and his non-violence philosophy. ADULT FICTION "Four Little Girls." A film by Spike Lee. the civil rights movement. Rustin’s Santa Monica, CA: Direct Cinema Limited, non-violent philosophy was based on "Before Stonewall: The Making of a Harper Lee and Richard Wright in 1998. (103 min). the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Gay and Lesbian Community." A film their classic works and several which can be explored in William by Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg. acclaimed recent novelists recount "In the Heat of the Night." A film by Borman's book. New York: Cinema Guild, 1985. (87 stories of racial prejudice, Norman Jewison. Culver City, CA: MGM/UA min). violence, and murder. Home Video, 1995, c1967. (110 min). Anderson, Jervis. Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen: A Biography. New York: Harper "After Stonewall." A film by John Gaines, Ernest J. A Gathering of Old "Mississippi Burning." A film directed by Collins Publishers, 1997. Scagliotti, Janet Baus, and Dan Hunt. Men. New York: Knopf, 1983. Alan Parker. New York: Orion Home Video, New York: First Run Features, 1999. (88 1988. (127 min). Borman, William. Gandhi and Non- min). Hunt, Marsha. Free. New York: Violence. Albany, NY: State University of Dutton, 1993. "Sounder." A film by Martin Ritt. New York Press, 1986. "Eyes on the Prize." A film by Judy Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1982. Vecchioner. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. (105 min). Cashman, Sean Dennis. African-Americans 1993, c. 1986. 14 videos, (60 min. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960. and the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990. each). "To Kill a Mockingbird." A film by New York: New York University Press, Milofsky, David. Color of Law: A Novel. Robert Mulligan. Universal City, CA: MCA 1991. "Gandhi." A film by Richard Boulder, CO: University Press of Videocassette, 1984, c1962. (129 min). Attenborough. Burbank, CARCA/ Colorado, 2000. Levine, Daniel. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Columbia Pictures Home Video, c. 1990, Rights Movement. New Brunswick, NJ: 1982. (187 min). Wright, Richard. Native Son. New "Brother Outsider: Rutgers University Press, 2000. York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. The Life of Bayard Rustin" by Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer. "Malcolm X." A film by Spike Lee. Olson, Lynne. Freedom's Daughters: The Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 1992. Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights (201 min). ADULT NONFICTION During his 60-year career as an activist, Movement From 1830 to 1970. New York: organizer and "troublemaker," Bayard Scribner, 2001. These factual accounts of racial Rustin formulated many of the strategies "Tongues Untied." A film by Marlon violence and injustice are that propelled the American civil rights Riggs. Santa Francisco, CA: Frameline, Rustin, Bayard. Down the Line: The 1989. (55 min). P.O.V. 1989 Season. compelling and engrossing. background, marking him again and again Collected Writings of Bayard. Chicago: movement. His passionate belief in Quadrangle Books, 1971.