segregation

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segregation

Separate but equal

1991
A dramatization of the events leading to the landmark Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation.

Invasion

Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry were friends in Virginia, but now that they are both involved in the Normandy invasion, the differences in their positions is uncomfortable, for Josiah is a white infantryman and Marcus is a black transport driver, the only role the segregated army will allow him.

The summer we got saved

2005
Three residents of a small Southern town find their lives forever changed as they face the issue of integration in the 1960s.

A life is more than a moment

the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High
1999
A photographic documentary of the events of 1957 when the governor of Arkansas moved to block desegregation of public schools by calling out the national guard to keep nine African-American students from entering Little Rock's Central High.

Abby takes a stand

2006
Grandma Gee shares with her grandchildren her experiences in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1960, when she passed out flyers while her cousins and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.

The clone codes

2010
On the run from a bounty hunter who arrested her mother for being part of a secret society devoted to freeing clones, thirteen-year-old Leanna learns amazing truths about herself and her family as she is forced to consider the value of freedom and what it really means to be human in 2170 America.

Walking for freedom

the Montgomery bus boycott
1993
Recounts how the black community of Montgomery, Alabama organized and participated in the 1955 bus boycott which ended segregation on public buses.

Ron's big mission

2009
Nine-year-old Ron, a frequent visitor to the Lake City Public Library in South Carolina in the 1950s, where he pores over books on airplanes and flight, makes his own quiet stand against segregation when he decides to apply for his own library card. Based on the life of astronaut Ron McNair.

A taste of colored water

2008
Young cousins Lulu and Jelly, inspired by stories told by a classmate, hitch a ride into the city hoping to take a gulp of what they imagine must be some pretty special water that comes from the "colored" drinking fountain.

Glory be

2012
Gloriana faces her twelfth birthday in 1964 and struggles with the changes she sees happening around her, but while she struggles to understand the shift in her relationships with her sister--who is about to enter high school--and her best friend, Frankie, Gloriana witnesses tempers rise in a debate over a segregated public pool.

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