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Verdugo Hills Council Diversity Awareness Award Activity Resources Verdugo Hills Council Diversity Awareness Award Activity Resources These resources are provided as a way to get you started on your journey of appreciating the diversity in the world around us. We have attempted to suggest a variety of resources, but realize we have only included a sampling of the people and groups who are worth learning more about. As we receive completed journals and award applications, we may be inspired by what you have learned and add to this list. Activity 2: The All About the Holidays videos from PBS have information on many holidays to help you get started learning something new. Activity 4: Suggested people to read more about: Alenush Terian Judy Heumann and Jim Lebrecht Anna Kazanjian Larry Itliong Cesar Chavez Lin-Manuel Miranda Charles Eastman Malala Yousafzai Dennis Banks Marie Foster Edgar Nixon Martina Navratilova Elie Wiesel Maysoon Zayid Elizabeth Cady Stanton Nelson Mandela Elizabeth Peratrovich Roberto Clemente Eugene Robinson Rosa Parks Frederick Douglass Ruth Bader Ginsberg George Deukmejian Sally Ride George Takei Stella Young Gordon Hirabayashi Stephen Hawking Harriet Tubman Susan B. Anthony Hellen Keller Sylvia Mendez I. King Jordan Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee Jessica Long Yuri Kochiyama John Amaechi Activity 5: Suggested movies to watch: Akeelah and the Bee (Amazon rental, DVD.com) The Color of Friendship (Disney+) The Diary of Anne Frank (DVD.com, Amazon Prime Video) Glory Road (Disney+, Amazon rental, DVD.com) Hairspray (DVD.com, Amazon rental, HBOMax) Hard Lessons (The George McKenna Story) (Netflix, Amazon rental) Hidden Figures (Amazon rental, Netflix, Disney+) Jim Thorpe -- All American (Amazon rental) McFarland, USA (Amazon rental, Disney+, DVD.com) The Miracle Worker No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie Remember the Titans (Amazon rental, DVD.com, Disney+) Ruby Bridges (Disney+) Running Brave (DVD.com) Stand and Deliver (Amazon rental) To Kill a Mockingbird (Amazon rental, DVD.com) Activity 6: Suggested groups of Scouts African-Americans Homenetmen Glendale Chapter Japanese-Americans during WWII Segregated Troops early in the BSA’s history Vietnamese Scouting in America Activity 7: Suggested organizations to research American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Anti-Defamation League Asian Americans Advancing Justice EasterSeals Equal Justice Initiative NAACP National Coalition on School Diversity National Indian Youth Council RespectAbility Trevor Project Unidos US.
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