Labor and Land Additional Resources

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How Black Americans Were Robbed of Their Land
By The Atlantic

This 15 minute film follows the Scott family, from Mound Bayou, Mississippi. They can trace their land ownership back to 1938, when the family’s agriculturally gifted patriarch began amassing more than 1,000 acres. By the late ‘80s, the Scotts had all but lost their land entirely. What happened in those intervening years is a complex story of systematic discrimination that’s emblematic of the experience of many black families in America.

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Segregated By Design
Directed by Mark Lopez

An 18-minute animated documentary of how the federal, state, and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in the U.S. through law and policy.

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Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek
Directed by Leah Mahan

A 60 minute documentary about the impact of “development” on a historically African American community in Gulfport, Mississippi.

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Viva La Causa
By Bill Brummel Productions
A 39 minute documentary film on the grape strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Free teaching guide available for use with the film.

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Salt of the Earth
Directed by Herbert Biberman

A 94 minute classic, powerful film about a miners strike in New Mexico that can be used to teach about the intersection of class, race, national origin, and gender.

INTERACTIVE MAP

Invasion of America
By Claudio Saunt

This interactive map, produced by University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt to accompany his book West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, offers a time-lapse vision of the transfer of Indian land between 1776 and 1887.

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Native American Land Loss Map
By Sam B. Hilliard

Five maps in a chronological series showing post-colonial land cessions in the continental United States and two additional maps showing land claims by tribe and present-day Indian reservations.