3 October 2023 Disco Film page

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  School Integration in America

  AMERICAN EXPERIENCE explores the legacy of school integration in two new documentaries that examine the deeply mixed legacy of America’s efforts to racially integrate public schools.

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  Pain and Promise: Remembering the Fight for School Integration

  American Experience partnered with StoryCorps Studios to record, uplift and archive stories about racial desegregation and educational equity efforts in American schools.

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  The U.S. Latino Experience

  Celebrating the contributions of Latinos to the American story.

  Celebrando los aportes de los hispanoparlantes a la historia estadounidense.

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  Flood in the Desert | Article

  Soledad Luna and the St. Francis Dam Disaster

  How a 10-year-old girl survived one of the worst civil engineering failures in American history.

   

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  Watch Film | Roberto Clemente

  An in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination to become baseball’s first Latino superstar. 
  Visite la página en español de la película y véala con subtítulos en español.

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  Watch Film | Zoot Suit Riots

  In June 1943 the murder of a young Mexican-American man ignited a firestorm in the City of the Angels. In no time at all, ethnic and racial tensions that had been building up over the years boiled over. 
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  The Busing Battleground | Digital Short

  After Brown v. Board

  Twenty years after the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, most schools across the country hadn’t integrated. Then the courts stepped in, again.

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  The Busing Battleground | Article

  The City of Boston Is Out of Control

  In 1974, Boston’s schools were ordered to desegregate. Things got ugly, fast.

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  The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools | Image Gallery

  Not Just a Normal School Yearbook

  Photos capture the experience of Leland, Mississippi’s first integrated high school class

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  The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools | Article

  Sharecropping: Slavery Rerouted

  Though slavery was abolished in 1865, sharecropping would keep most Black Southerners impoverished and immobile for decades to come.

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  Video Gallery

  Documentaries to Watch Now

  Stream these American Experience documentaries anywhere, anytime. We will update this page as new films become available.

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  Watch | Conversations with American Experience

  History is alive. We are still living it. Let’s talk about it.