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Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
Find resources about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, many of them arranged thematically.
Featured Films
Find films about the Civil Rights Movement at the UTSA Libraries. Click a title to check its availability.
- The AbolitionistsCall Number: E449 .A44 2013Three part program recreates the story of the antislavery movement of the 1800s. DVD.
- Slavery by Another NameCall Number: E185.2 .S53 2012Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force. DVD.
- The Loving StoryCall Number: E185.62 .L68 2011Documentary about the case of Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and a black woman who were convicted by the state of Virginia for the crime of marrying across racial lines in the late 1950s. DVD.
- Freedom RidersCall Number: E185.61 .F744 2011This two-hour documentary tells the story of the Freedom Riders, more than 400 black and white Americans, who from May until November 1961, risked their lives for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism. DVD.
- 4 Little GirlsCall Number: F334 .B69 N3 2000When a bomb tears through the basement of a black Baptist church on a peaceful fall morning, it takes the lives of four young girls; Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins. This racially motivated crime, taking place at a time when the civil rights movement is burning with a new flame, could have doused that flame forever. Instead it fuels a nation's outrage and brings Birmingham, Alabama to the forefront of America's concern. DVD.
- Eyes on the PrizeCall Number: E185.61 .E943 2006A set of seven DVDs from American Experience (PBS) document the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950-1980s. DVD.
- An Ordinary Hero: The True Story of Joan Trumpauer MulhollandCall Number: E185.98.M85 O73 2013The true story of one young woman's courage to help change the world. As a little girl growing up in the South, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland witnessed the ugly realities of segregation and racism first hand and vowed to one day do something about it. By the time she was 19 years old, Joan had already participated in over three dozen sit-ins and protests when she was put on death row in Mississippi. But that was just the beginning of this true story. DVD.
- A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights StoryCall Number: F395.M5 C53 2009Tells 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 discriminiation 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. DVD.
Selected Books: Film & Television
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Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle
Call Number: PN1995.9.N4 B59 2005Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film by Ed Guerrero
Call Number: PN1995.9 .N4 G84 1993Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, & Resistance by Charles Ramírez Berg
Call Number: PN1995.9.H47 B46 2002Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television by Donald Bogle
Call Number: PN1992.8 .A34 B64 2001Reading Race: Hollywood and the Cinema of Racial Violence by Norman K. Denzin
Call Number: PN1995.9.M56 D46 2002Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films by Donald Bogle
Call Number: PN1995.9.N4 B6 2001
Selected Books: Visual Culture & Race
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The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present by T. V. Reed
Publication Date: 2019E-bookBlack Art and Culture in the 20th Century by Richard Powell
Call Number: N6538.N5 P64 1997The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America by Robert M. Entman; Andrew Rojecki
Call Number: P94.5 .A372 U55 2000Chicana and Chicano Art: ProtestArte by Carlos Francisco Jackson
Call Number: N6538.M4 J25 2009Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation by Michael D. Harris
Call Number: N8232 .H37 2003For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Maurice Berger
Call Number: N5303 .B47 2010Freedom Now!: Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle by Martin A. Berger
Call Number: E185.61 .B47 2013The Image of the Black in Western Art by David Bindman; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Call Number: N8232 .I46 2010Multi-volume set. The seminal work on the history of representations of people of African descent in Western art.Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob by Dora Apel
Call Number: N8221.L96 A63 2004Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry by Jason Chambers
Call Number: HF5813.U6 C46 2008A Pedagogy of Witnessing: Curatorial Practice and the Pursuit of Social Justice by Roger I. Simon
E-book
Explores the curating of "difficult knowledge" through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.Powerful Days: Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore by Michael S. Durham; Charles Moore
Call Number: E185.61 .D94 1991Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968 by Julian Cox
Call Number: E185.61 .C875 2008Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography by Martin A. Berger
Call Number: E185.61 .B44 2011
Selected Books: Whiteness
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Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture by Martin A. Berger
Call Number: NX650.R34 B47 2005White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness by Maurice Berger
Call Number: E185.615 .B47 2000