Unforgivable Blackness, The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson: A Film by Ken Burns
This two-part, 3.5-hour film tells the story of the first Black boxer to win the most coveted title in sports, “Heavyweight Champion of the World,”
June 7, 2024
This two-part, 3.5-hour film tells the story of the first Black boxer to win the most coveted title in sports, “Heavyweight Champion of the World,”
This two-part, four-hour film, tells the story of a U.S. icon whose life-long battle for first class citizenship for all African Americans transcended even his
In 1970, the Atlanta Housing Authority opened a public housing community called East Lake Meadows. Before Atlanta bulldozed the housing project in the mid-1990s to
This 90-minute film tells the story of a school in Vermont where each year students are encouraged to practice, memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address.
In 1989, five Black and Latino teenagers were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. They spent
The Civil War is a nine-part series that explores the most important conflict in our nation’s history. It saw the end of slavery and was
Structured as game questions, this activity challenges students to identify cities, states and geographical features whose names tell the story of the Indigenous, Spanish and
Explore the early days of the United Farm Workers of America under the guidance of César Chavez and Dolores Huerta. See the conditions that led
In this lesson plan drawing on material from Latino Americans, students learn about how regions, such as Texas, New Mexico and California, had established Mexican
Students view a clip on the situation of Mexican American students in Los Angeles in the 1960s, and how self-concepts and expectations began to change