Social Movement & Social Advocacy Organizations - A Few Examples
DVDs on Social Movement Topics
A provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women's liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium, direct from the women who lived it.
She's beautiful when she's angry
Vanguard of the Revolution is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Call number: 322.420973 B627 DVD (Truax)
A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story (2009)
Tells the story of an underdog band of Mexican American lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans. Lawyers forged a daring legal strategy, arguing that Mexican Americans were "a class apart" from a legal system that recognized only blacks and whites. ALSO available as a Streaming Video: https://ezproxy.madisoncollege.edu/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlayLists.aspx?wid=102567&xtid=40874
Makers: Women who make America (2013)
Reviews the story of how women have helped shape America over the last fifty years through one of the most sweeping social revolutions in American history, in pursuit of their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy.
Freedom Summer (2014)
In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states ... even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death.
In Whose Honor:American Indian mascots in sports (1997)
Discussion of Chief Illiniwek as the University of Illinois mascot, and the effect the mascot has on Native American peoples.
We Were Here: The Aids Years in San Francisco. (2011)
David Weissman's We Were Here revisits the San Francisco of the 80s and 90s, using the city's experience with AIDS to open up a conversation about both the history of the epidemic and the lessons to be learned from it.
Miss Representation (2012)
Discusses ways in which the media openly degrades women. Features commentary from many influential women in media and politics.
E-Books on Social Movements - Reference Titles
Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers by ISBN: 1576071014Publication Date: 2001-12-06This two-volume encyclopedia documents the visions, struggles, and lives of women who have changed the world. This encyclopedia celebrates the lives and achievements of nearly 300 women from around the globe--women who have bravely insisted that the way things are is not the way they have to be.
Ripples of Hope by ISBN: 0465027520Publication Date: 2003-04-14Ripples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial period to the present.
Guns in American Society by ISBN: 0313386706Publication Date: 2012-05-01. With over 100 new entries, the latest edition of "Guns in American Society" is the most current resource available on all aspects of the gun issue, including rates of violence, gun control, gun rights, regulations and legislation, court decisions, pro- and anti-gun organizations, gun ownership, hunters and collectors, public opinion toward guns, and much more.
Atlas of Human Rights by ISBN: 0520261232Publication Date: 2010-08-02This comprehensive and succinct text explores judicial violations and legal restrictions that permit state-sponsored torture, indefinite detention, capital punishment, and police brutality. Vividly illustrated with colorful maps and charts, The Atlas of Human Rights charts both the progress and limitation of free expression and media censorship. It displays the areas that are beset with wars, conflict, migration, and genocide; details the geographic status of sexual freedom, racism, religious freedom, and the rights of the disabled; focuses on women's rights, sex slavery, and the rights of the child.
The Environmental Debate by ISBN: 1592376762Publication Date: 2010-10-15This unique collection of primary documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, and resource conservation in America from the colonial period the present.
How People Power Generates Change - Bill Moyers
Moyers & Company: How People Power Generates Change. Films On Demand. Films Media Group, 2013.
Police Shootings and the Black Lives Matter Movement DeRay McKesson talked about the killing of five police officers in Dallas, Texas, following a rally to protest the shooting deaths of two African Americans by police in Louisiana and Minnesota. Mr. McKesson spoke via video link from Baltimore, Maryland.
Pay 2 Play: Democracy's High Stakes. Films Media Group, 2014.
Changemakers: Thomas Piketty and Naomi Klein. Films Media Group, 2014.
Print Materials on Social Movement Topics
Making It Legal by Call Number: 346.730168 H576 (Truax)ISBN: 1413319831Publication Date: 2014-01-27The ultimate guide to the past, present, and future of same-sex relationship laws in the U.S.
Wonder Women by Call Number: 305.42 SP736ISBN: 1250056063Publication Date: 2014-10-07Armed with reams of new research, Spar examines how women’s lives have, and have not, changed over the past fifty years—and how it is that the struggle for power has become a quest for perfection. Wise, often funny, and always human,Wonder Women asks: How far have women really come? And what will it take to get true equality for good?
Pulled Over by Call Number: 363.232 E643 (Truax)ISBN: 022611399XPublication Date: 2014-04-04Pulled Over deftly traces the strange history of the investigatory police stop, from its discredited beginning as #147;aggressive patrolling” to its current status as accepted institutional practice. Drawing on the richest study of police stops to date, the authors show that who is stopped and how they are treated convey powerful messages about citizenship and racial disparity in the United States.
