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1) Ruby Bridges
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When bright six year old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Father Joseph Verrett ignites the sparks of the Civil Rights movement in New Orleans when he organizes a game between his own undefeated Black team and an undefeated prep school team from the White community. Along with his star player, he must overcome the fears and prejudices of the city's residents - both Black and White - to forever change the established social order.
3) The help
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
In 1963, amidst the Civil Rights movement that was tearing the nation apart, one hate crime became notorious: the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama which killed four young African American girls. Now, in 1998, the FBI has reopened the case, and Tom Cherry's memories are recalled about the turbulent years of his childhood. He is forced to come to terms with his past, facing his father's possible involvement with...
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