Explore what happened when the small Mississippi town of Leland integrated its public schools in 1970. Told through the remembrances of students, teachers and parents, the film shows how the town ā and America ā were transformed.
The Busing BattlegroundĀ viscerally captures the class tensions and racial violence that ensued when Black and white students in Boston were bused for the first time between neighborhoods to comply with a federal desegregation order.
The Busing Battleground captura de manera visceral las tensiones de clase y la violencia racial que se produjo cuando los estudiantes negros y blancos de Boston fueron transportados en autobús por primera vez de un barrio a otro cumpliendo con la orden judicial de eliminar la segregación.
Un retrato Ćntimo de la mujer cuyos innovadores escritos revolucionaron nuestra relación con el mundo natural y dieron inicio al movimiento ambiental moderno.
In the 1950s and ā60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves.
Scientist MƔria Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and thwarted by her male colleagues, she persevered to design the first successfully solar-heated house in 1948 and held more than 20 patents.
Discover the story of the 1969 showdown between President Nixon and the antiwar movement. Told through firsthand accounts, the film reveals how movement leaders mobilized disparate groups to create two massive protests that changed history.
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.