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Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1985

Film. Produced by Henry Hampton. Blackside. 1987. 360 minutes.
Comprehensive documentary history of the Civil Rights Movement.

Underground Man

Book — Fiction. By Milton Meltzer. 2006. 288 pages.
An historically accurate novel on abolitionists and the Underground Railroad for middle school readers.

Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution

Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Josh MacPhee. 2020. 264 pages.
A visual representation of people's history through political posters.

John Brown’s Last Speech

Film clip. Voices of a People's History.
Dramatic reading John Brown’s Last Speech delivered on November 2, 1859, by Josh Brolin.

Conscience and the Constitution

Film. By Frank Abe. 2000. 57 minutes.
In World War II, 63 Japanese Americans refused to be drafted from a U.S. concentration camp.

Elegy for Peter Norman

Poem. By Josh Healey.
Poem about Peter Norman, the white Australian athlete in the historic protest and iconic photo at the 1968 Olympics.

Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement

Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Emilye Crosby. 2011. 486 pages.
A grassroots history of the Civil Rights Movement.

Teaching Activity by Emilye Crosby

Training for Change

Website. Workshops, tools and publications for social justice and activist training.

Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

Picture book. By Carole Boston Weatherford. 2007. 32 pages.
Historical fiction in an upper elementary picture book about the Greensboro sit-ins.

Freedom Riders

Film. Written, produced, and directed by Stanley Nelson. 2011. 120 minutes.
A first-hand look at the 1961 rides from the Freedom Riders themselves and others who were there.

The Killing Floor

Film. Directed by Bill Duke. 1985. Digitally restored in 2020. 118 minutes.
Set during World War I, two African-American men deal with racism in the workplace and the labor union.

Maquilapolis (City of Factories)

Film. Directed and produced by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre. 2006. 68 minutes.
The impact of globalization as told through the lives of the women who experience it in Tijuana, Mexico.

Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor

Book — Non-fiction. By Russell Freedman. 1998. 112 pages.
Child labor through images and essays, for middle school and above.

Bus Riders Union

Film. Haskell Wexler. 2000. 86 minutes.
The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union's triumphant struggle to win better service.

Bread and Roses

Film. By Ken Loach. 2001. 106 minutes.
A compelling, fictionalized account of an actual labor campaign in Los Angeles.

The Fight in the Fields: César Chávez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle

Film. Ray Telles and Rick Tejada-Flores. 1997. 116 minutes.
A documentary on the farmworker movement told by the organizers and farmworkers themselves.

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

Picture book. By Doreen Cronin. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin. 2000. 32 pages.
A barnyard struggle where the cows go on strike and the farmer is forced to negotiate.

Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

Website. Coalition of groups dedicated to education and memorial events about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Book — Non-fiction. By Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 2003. 208 pages.
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove working children to strike, from the mill workers' strike in 1834 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the children who marched with Mother Jones in 1903.