Summary: Program 3 of an anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and os.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MORSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: I am somebody : Records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C. for better working conditions and higher wages. Shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups plus the local black community through nonviolent marches and demonstrations. Highlights Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IMarkel, Michelle.
Summary: An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J331.892 MARDuncan, Alice Faye
Summary: Recounts the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his final speech to strikers the night before his assassination, and details the perseverance of strikers before and after his death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.892 DUNKurtz, Jane.
Summary: In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that proclaimed that it was time -- long overdue -- for all people to be treated as equals. Today his beliefs are more important than ever, and author Jane Kurtz explains Dr. King's words in language even the youngest reader can understand.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2008
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.272 BROSummary: Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film 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 in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VIVBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuZannos, Susan.
Summary: A biography of the Mexican American who spent most of his life working to organize the migrant farm workers in California and was instrumental in the founding of the United Farm Workers union.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mitchell Lane Publishers 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CHAVEZ ZANBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: "Introduces readers to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BAPBlas, Terry
Summary: ""Viva La Huelga! Viva La Causa!" Discover the true story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, as he and the National Farm Workers Association set out on an incredible three-hundred-mile protest march in support of farmworkers' rights."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHAStewart, Amy
Summary: Living in virtual isolation years after the revelation of a painful family secret, Constance Kopp is terrorized by a belligerent silk factory owner and fights back in ways outside the norm for early twentieth-century women.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEBrox, Jane
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 974.272 BROSherman, Augustus F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 SHEMcCully, Emily Arnold.
Summary: A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCCPaterson, Katherine.
Summary: Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2006
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT FICTION PatersonStewart, Amy.
Summary: Living in virtual isolation years after the revelation of a painful family secret, Constance Kopp is terrorized by a belligerent silk factory owner and fights back in ways outside the norm for early twentieth-century women.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Stewart 2015Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M STECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS STEHealy, Thomas
Summary: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.6 HEASummary: "Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BISKent, Kate Peck.
Summary: Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, this book is the classic introductory text on this appealing Native American art form.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: School of American Research Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.41 KENRockliff, Mara
Summary: "A picture book biography about Georgia Gilmore, the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It is a timely tale of what can happen when engaged citizens fight the power for the sake of a better world. Arguably, no one did more to shape our understanding of the modern American city than Jane Jacobs, the visionary activist and writer who fought to preserve urban communities in the face of destructive development projects. The film vividly brings to life Jacobs' 1960s showdown with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITStewart, Rory.
Summary: Explores the landscape of the author's home on the borderland between England and Scotland, known as the Marches, and the history, people, and conflicts that have shaped it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2017