Film. Directed Steven John Ross and written by Candace O'Connor. 1999. 56 minutes.
Archival footage, photographs, and first-hand accounts of sharecroppers — Black and white — organizing in Missouri.
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Profile.
Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is a political activist, professor, linguist, and author.
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Picture book. By Paula Young Shelton and illustrated by Raul Colon. 2009. 48 pages.
A child’s unique perspective on the Civil Rights Movement by the daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young.
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Profile.
A brief biography of James Baldwin, writer and social critic.
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Digital collection. Digital photo collection of the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912.
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Website. Interactive timeline that connects moments in history related to the prison industrial complex.
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Article. By Bill Bigelow. 2013. If We Knew Our History Series.
While new U.S. history textbooks mention the Pentagon Papers, none grapples with the actual import of the Pentagon Papers.
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Article. By Bill Bigelow. 2012. If We Knew Our History Series.
Textbooks fail to look at the social forces that starved and uprooted over a million Irish—and that are starving and uprooting people today.
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Article. By Bill Bigelow. 2012. If We Knew Our History Series.
The pretend war of celebratory fireworks inures us—especially the children among us—to the real wars half a world away.
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Article. By Bill Bigelow. 2013. If We Knew Our History Series.
Textbooks portray coal purely as a relic of the past, and fail to discuss its central role in today’s climate crisis.
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Digital collection. Information and resources on the 1934 truckers strikes in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Digital collection. Extensive collection on the Civil Rights Movement and the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964.
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Digital collection. Over 3,300 documents from the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua, 1927-1934.
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Audio.
Talks and interviews by Howard Zinn on a wide range of topics.
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Article. By Howard Zinn. 1999.
Liner notes to "Fellow Workers" album by Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips on the hidden history of the modern U.S. labor movement.
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Digital collection. Records of the Voice of Industry newspaper, published by young women in Lowell, Mass. from 1845-1848.
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Film. By James M. Fortier. 2001. 60 minutes.
Documentary on a small group of Native American students and “Urban Indians” who occupied Alcatraz Island in November 1969, and how it forever changed the way Native Americans viewed themselves, their culture and their sovereign rights.
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Film. Directed by Bill Haney. Produced by Clara Bingham and Eric Grunebaum. 2011. 95 minutes.
Documentary on the consequences of mining and burning coal, with a focus on mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.
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Profile. By Dernoral Davis.
Medgar Evers (July 2, 1925—June 12, 1963), Civil Rights Movement activist in Mississippi.
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Website. Classroom lessons and resources to educate young people for hopeful and intelligent engagement with their world.
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Film. Directed Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford. Written by Michael Chandler. 1994. 110 minutes.
The story of the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s.
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Film. Directed by Eduardo López & Peter Getzels. 2012. 90 minutes.
Documentary that examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today.
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Article and slideshow. 2012.
University of Massachusetts Lowell students study the Bread and Roses Strike and create a poster project, viewable as an online slideshow.
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Poem. By Pablo Neruda.
How the history of Panama has been impacted by geography and greed.
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Film. Directed by Tom Trinley. 2023. 51 minutes.
Inspired by the book, Lies Across America, this film presents the historic myths and facts about a few iconic monuments in the United States.
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