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articles & journals
"Gautreaux and Chicago's Public Housing Crisis: The Conflict Between Achieving Integration and Providing Decent Housing for Very Low-Income African Americans"
by William P. Wilen and Wendy L. Stasell
Copyright by National Center on Poverty Law
Journal of American Planning Association
"In the Wake of Desegregation: Early Impacts of Scattered Site Public Housing on Neighborhoods in Yonkers, NY"
by Xavier de Souza Briggs, Joe T. Darden, and Angela Aidala
The New York Times
"Race in America" series, available through keyword search
"The Perpetuation of Residential Racial Segregation in America"
by Marc Seitles
Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law
"Boston: Not Safe At Home: How America's Housing Crisis Threatens the Health of Its Children"
Boston Medical Center and Children's Hospital, 1998.
film & video
"A Nation Divided?" from The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
A report hosted by Elizabeth Farnsworth following up on the Kerner Commision Report 30 years later. March 2, 1998 transcript/audio version available
A Time for Justice
Directed by Charles Guggenheim
Produced by Direct Cinema Ltd.
A documentary film about the Civil Rights Movement produced specifically for young adults.
Eyes on the Prize and Eyes on the Prize II
Produced by Blackside, Inc.
Two series of documentaries on the Civil Rights Movement that begin with the 1950’s and the movement in the American South, and continue through the battles of the 1970’s and beyond.
A viewer’s guide to Eyes on the Prize
MediaRights.org
Film/video documentaries on racial justice issues and civil rights
4 Little Girls
Directed by Spike Lee
Produced by Sam Pollard
A film documentary of a terrorist bombing of an African-American church during the height of the Civil Rights Movement
Distributed by HBO Documentaries
Television Race Initiative
A multi-year effort in which diverse, character-driven, high-profile television broadcasts create a spine for sustained community dialogue and problem solving around the issue of race relations.
The Promised Land
Coproduced by BBC-TV and Discovery Productions
A 5-part television documentary based on the book by Nicolas Lehmann
Viewing Race
A film and video project to stimulate community-based discussions on race—a project of national video resources
books & magazines
American Apartheid
by Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton
Harvard University Press
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J. Anthony Lukas
Random House
This book explores school desegregation in Boston through three families’ own lives.
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 and Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65
by Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
Washington, D.C.: National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders, 1968
Known as The Kerner Commision Report, this report remains relevant today.
The Children
by David Halberstam
Random House
College students who became civil rights leaders
The Failures of Integration
by Sheryll Cashin
Public Affairs Book
Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement
by Jon Meacham (Editor)
Random House
organizations
Human and Civil Rights Organizations of America
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
National Education Association
National Urban League
Poverty and Race Research Action Council
The Harvard Civil Rights Project
The Leadership Council on Civil Rights
The National Fair Housing Alliance
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
"FHEO: fair housing—it’s your right!"
Xavier Briggs
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Editor of Study of Housing Mobility in Yonkers, NY