civil rights movies page 8

Black and Blue (2011)
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When Georgia Tech came to Michigan in 1934, the Wolverines were forced to bench their best play, Willis Ward, because he was an African-American. The...

Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton & Springfield (2022)
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See how New Deal-era Redlining maps delineated risk areas for federally-backed mortgages and home-ownership programs, resulting in a wealth gap that...

Newen Mapuche, la fuerza de la gente de la tierra (1969)
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Goin' to Chicago (2000)
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A group of longtime Chicago residents born in the Mississippi Delta returns to Greenville, Mississippi, for a reunion with family and friends....

The Second Largest Minority (1968)
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Documentary short documents the “Reminder Day Picket” at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, on July 4, 1968.

Fannie Lou Hamer’s America (2022)
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The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights...

The Pratt in the Hat (2021)
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The PRATT in the HAT is a short film about Frances Pratt, her hats, her wit, and her civil rights leadership which began in 1957 and continues till...

The Committee (2011)
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A film about Florida's little-known investigative committee of the State Legislature from 1956-1964. The committee's aim was to root out homosexual...

The Issue of Mr. O'Dell (2020)
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A documentary examining the life of civil rights organizer, Jack O'Dell, a close colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a force in his own...

The State of Eugenics (2017)
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This film shines a light on a sorry and oft-forgotten chapter in US history— the forced sterilization of 7,600 people thought to have...

Lyndon B. Johnson - Succeeding Kennedy (2013)
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Jane Kennedy: To Be Free (1969)
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A thought-provoking, humanistic portrait of a Chicago nurse who risked her personal freedom and was imprisoned in civil rights demonstrations and...

Jim Crow of the North (2019)
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Roots of racial disparities are seen through a new lens in this film that explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area. But...

We Are George Floyd (2020)
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On May 25th, 2020, Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, murdered George Floyd, a black man, by driving his knee into George's neck for 8...

Machos (2018)
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Through a training trip, in which the filmmakers also participate, the contrasts that exist between the conservatism of machismo and the new...

Massacre River (2019)
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Pikilina is a Dominican-born woman of Haitian descent. Racial and political violence erupts when the country of her birth, the Dominican Republic,...

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot (2012)
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Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is a first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader. Braden was hailed by...

Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock (2018)
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Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee, thousands of activists, environmentalists, and militarized police...

Old South (2015)
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In Athens, Georgia, a college fraternity traditionally known to fly the confederate flag moves to a historically Black neighborhood and establishes...

Lousy Little Sixpence (1983)
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Documentary

Tells of Aborigines' removal from their families to be sent to work as servants for white people and the rise of the first Aboriginal organisations...