[ClearCase_guy]

It’s been a long time since I saw it, but I recall this being a good series:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_on_the_Prize

Yes, it’s from PBS. But it’s from 1987, and I think political correctness had not really kicked in at that point. You’d want to make sure it’s not overly anti-White, but as far as I know it’s pretty balanced.

Also, from a Reference link at the end of the wikipedia article, it appears that the entire series may be viewable on Youtube.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I know nothing about these. Just practicing my googling.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atopdocumentaryfilms.com+civil+rights&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=Palemoon:en-US&client=palemoon#rls=Palemoon:en-US&q=site:topdocumentaryfilms.com+civil+rights

[Vermont Lt]

Have them listen to the I have a dream speech. And then talk about what he is talking about. It’s gonna take some research, but primary resources are the best.

[DirtyPigpen]

Django, Unchained.

[Vermont Lt]

And I would add that 80% of current day civil rights people have not listen to, nor do they understand the speech.

I would also be willing to wager that 90% of college grads, black or white have listen to the last few paragraphs...but don’t have a clue.

[11th_VA]

Just play them Barry Mcguire’s ‘Eve of Destruction’ - not much has changed, just different people groups ...

[Fiji Hill]

Schlessinger Media put out a DVD entitled "The History of the Civil Rights Movement" in 2007. There is also a lengthy PBS documentary entitled "Eyes on the Prize."

You will find a number of resources by using the "advanced search" feature of theWorldcat library database to do a subject search on "African Americans Civil Rights History 20th Century" or "Civil Rights Movements United States History 20th Century" and limit the format to "DVD Video."

[Cry if I Wanna]

My grandpa, now a very old man says he remembers reading about lynchings in the newspaper. He said that he was about 10 living in California and the newspaper articles were just a few paragraphs. He said he understood that someone was hanged, but he just didn’t understand how or why it happened. He said that he thought the South was a foreign country and bad things happened to some people there.

[OldNavyVet]

A bright young man that looks to be a budding grandson-in-law recently brought the book "Yearning to Breathe Free" to my attention, so I am into reading it and guess what?

My eyes are being opened in learning what it was like to be a slave.

Nothing works better to open one's mind than reading history, and this book is a history about being a slave in America.

The book's author is Andrew Billingsley, and it's publisher is the University of South Caroiina.

[Mercat]

Start with To Kill a Mockingbird.

[donna]

I don’t think there’s a documentary for the side that objected to giving the federal government the power to tell the local shop owner who he must serve . . . because small government people knew that one day they’d be required to bake a gay wedding cake or go to jail and lose their business.

Everyone is racist today and they were racist then according to the big government civil rights backers.

Also, no one had to identify their race on all official documents like now days - we were all one color: American.

Nope, no documentary for that.

[upchuck]

Ping to home school list manager.

[Crapolla]

There is a site with tons of goodies...

Just try the search
Archive.org

[No One Special]

Get the film “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Great film, great acting and a great lesson taught.

[EinNYC]

The movie “The Help” highlights how poorly black domestics were treated in the 50s and 60s. It’s an excellent film.

[GeronL]

do only black people have civil rights?

[Yosemitest]

Take a look at Booker T. Washington on Black Victimhood.
This is a very important fact THAT IS NOT BEING TAUGHT TODAY !

A number of black “leaders” (e.g., Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) have made their living by promoting black victimhood and white guilt.
Jesse Jackson has been shaking down corporations with the scam for decades.
Booker T. Washington (1865–1915) warned of such people within the black community in his 1911 book My Larger Education.
He described them as “problem profiteers”:

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs
– partly because they want sympathy
and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances,
because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
(p. 118)



My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience
(Dover Thrift Editions)

[Pollster1]

You know or can find most of the key events, and many are on youtube. I would go with primary sources as much as possible, and then talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLLDn7MjbF0 George Wallace “segregation now, segregation forever”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs MLK “I have a dream”

Youtube is great, and I prefer my own commentary as a parent to the liberal spin often added by professional racists.

[kenmcg]

There’s plenty of information available in any library in the US re. slavery, the tribal chiefs who sold them into slavery, Jim Crow laws, the Confederacy, how African Americans have prospered and how some have suffered under the Great Society. The only thing you won’t find is the
FBI information on MLK.

[don-o]

As homeschoolers, you can begin with the spiritual aspect of these matters. At the root, it’s a heart problem and the solution by political means (and brute force) is, at best, a patch. In due time, your children can learn how even the best of intentions do have bad results and consequences. Especially when the power continues to try to fix heart problems with force and money.

Racial animus has never been confined to the American South. But, that seems to get ALL the attention.