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Teaching Tolerance and the Southern Poverty Law Center have created a set of videos with teacher’s manuals on important HRE issues.
My favorite is the Children’s March, which shows actual footage of the 1960s Civil Rights Marches in the USA and how it was the children and young people who were actually responsible for turning the tide of the civil rights movement towards its success when it was on the brink of failure. It is a powerful film about the importance of youth participation.
Their films include:
An Outrage
An Outrage takes viewers to the very communities where heinous acts of violence took place, offering a painful look back at lives lost to lynching and a critical look forward. (Available for streaming only)
Viva La Causa
Viva La Causa focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights – the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta. (Available for order)
Starting Small
Designed for in-service programs, this training tool for early grades educators profiles classrooms in which peace, equity and justice are guiding themes. (Available for order)
Selma | The Bridge to the Ballot
The film tells the story of a courageous group of students and teachers who, along with other activists, fought a nonviolent battle to win voting rights for African Americans in the South. (Available for order)
One Survivor Remembers
This Oscar-winning documentary presents Gerda Weissmann Klein’s account of surviving the Holocaust as a child. (Available for streaming only)
Mighty Times | The Children’s March
This special teachers’ edition of the Oscar-winning documentary film tells the heroic story of the young people in Birmingham, Alabama, who brought segregation to its knees. (Available for order)
Bullied | A Student, a School and a Case That Made History
Bullied is a documentary film that chronicles one student’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today. (Available for order)
America’s Civil Rights Movement | A Time for Justice
A Time for Justice, an Oscar-winning documentary, captures the spirit of the civil rights movement through historical footage and the voices of activists who sat, sang and marched. (Available for order)