Recent
movies that will enhance our curriculum on African Americans Civil
Rights long and arduous journey - There are many others, and most have a
few violent scenes. Hidden Figures - An uplifting, empowering movie that demonstrates perseverance through discrimination and harassment. It tells the true story of the untold (until recently) journey of a team of African-American women who provided NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program's first successful space missions - PG
Race - A movie on Jesse Owens - PG -13 
Selma - A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 - PG - 13 (warning: some violent scenes).
42 - The story of Jackie Robinson from his signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1945 to his historic 1947 rookie season when he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball - PG - 13
The 13th - A Netflix documentary that provides an in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality starting from the 13th Amendment. Some students have already seen it ! It definitely contains some hard-to-watch scenes, but unfortunately, not gratuitous.
