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How does conflict lead to change?
Choose at least one of the videos or documentaries below to view. Located at the bottom of the page is a supplemental activity you can use to take notes.
The story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South.
DISCLAIMER: This video contains offensive language intended for mature audiences.
Documents the Mexican-American struggle to reform an educational system that failed to properly educate Chicano students. This episode focuses on the 1968 walkout by thousands of Mexican-American high school students in East Los Angeles, which resulted in conspiracy indictments against 13 community leaders.
In this TedTalk, Emi Mahmoud writes poetry of resilience, confronting her experience of escaping the genocide in Darfur in verse. She shares two stirring original poems about refugees, family, joy and sorrow, asking, "Will you witness me?"
In 1946, eight years before the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Mexican Americans in Orange County, CA won a class action lawsuit to dismantle the segregated school system that existed there. In this video segment, Sylvia Mendez recalls the conditions that triggered the lawsuit and her parents' involvement in the case.
June is "Pride Month," but how did the New York City Stonewall riots turn into a month-long celebration? This "Origin of Everything" video explains how we got from picketed protests like the Annual Reminder in Philadelphia to massive parades and parties around the world.
The attached "4-3-2-1" activity can be used to help you take notes while watching videos. Feel free to "make a copy" and fill in each box on your own.