April 2003
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Seasonal Videos
                   


 WAR ON FILM & IN DOCUMENTARIES

                                               
                                                  Cesar Chavez

  The Fight in the Fields : Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle. (1996)
  HD6509.C48 F53 1997

  "The Story of Cesar Chavez, the charismatic founder of the United Farmworkers Union   and the movement that he inspired - a movement that touched the hearts of millions of   Americans with the grape and lettuce products, a non-violent movement that confronted   conservative politicians like Ronald Reagan and the powerful Teamsters Union."
  1 videocassette, Color and B&W, 115 min., 1997

  Golden Lands, Working Hands.
  HD6517.C2 G65 1999

  Part 2 of a 2-part history of the labor movement in California from the 1860's to the   present day. This second segment examines the DiGiorgio strike of 1947-50, the   struggle for the Fair Employment Practices Law and the threat of the Right To Work   campaign of 1958, the expansion of the labor-civil rights connection in the 1960's, the   continued struggle of the California's farm labor movement with the advent of Cesar   Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
  1 videocassette, Color and B&W, 91 min., 1999
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PATRIOTISM

  The New Patriotism. (1984)
  E169.1 .N48 1988
  Old fashioned, flag-waving patriotism, virtually   absent a decade ago is making a startling   comeback. Dave Dellinger, one of the defedents   in the "Chicago Seven" trial of 1968 and Ben   Wattenberg, a senior fellow at the American   Enterprise Institute, discuss what is behind this   new patriotism in the United States.
  1 videocassette, Color, 30 min., 1988

  The Voice of Yellow Patriotism.
  JK1759 .V64 1997
  Patriotic parades, speeches and songs   demonstrate American patriotism.
  1 videocassette, Color, 34 min., 1997

 

 
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