Social Justice and Racial Literacy

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Ebooks by Study Area

  African-American & Black Studies  
  Gender Studies  
  Latinx Studies  
  Native & Aboriginal Studies  

Videos from Films on Demand

America After Charleston 2015  
Anatomy of Prejudice: Jane Elliott's Seminar on Race 2009  
Are You Racist? 2015  
Baltimore Rising 2017  
#BlackLivesMatter 2015  
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise 2016  
Black Lives Matter 2017  
Civil Rights Movement 2009  
Confronting Discrimination and Prejudice 2008  
Emancipation Proclamation Celebrates 150 Years and an Enduring Power to Inspire 2012  
Ethnic Notions 1987  
For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker 1998  
From the Library of Black History: The Longest Struggle 1990  
House We Live In: Race, the Power of an Illusion 2003  
King in the Wilderness 2018  
Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural Address 2015  
Overcoming Prejudice 2011  
Policing is Racially Biased: A Debate 2017  
Racial Facial 2016  
Secrets of the Hollow: Last Disintegrated School 2018  
Target: Philadelphia 2020  
TEDTalks: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi 2016  
TEDTalks: David R. Williams: How Racism Makes Us Sick 2017  
TEDTalks: Howard C. Stevenson: How to Resolve Racially Stressful Situations 2018  
TEDTalks: Sally Kohn: What We Can Do About the Culture of Hate 2018                                                                                         

VIVA collections

Readex Collections African Americans and Reconstruction, 1865‐1883 contains nearly 1,400 fully searchable printed works from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of Jim Crow.
  African Americans and Jim Crow, 1883‐1922 contains more than 1,000 fully searchable printed works from the beginning of Jim Crow to post‐World War I. 
Gale Collections Indigenous Peoples of North America is a comprehensive collection of primary source documents from American and Canadian government sources and institutions, tribal publications, and documents from Indian‐related organizations, including a selection of indigenous‐language materials.
The HistoryMakers The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is a collection of 2,800 full‐length African American videotaped oral histories that is continually growing.