Matt McKeon
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I use this series in the classroom every year. The three episodes I usually show feature school desegregation in Little Rock, with Ike finally sending in the paratroopers. It involves a high school and high school students, so my high schoolers relate a little bit.
The second is the confrontation at Selma, ending the first half of the series with King's triumphant speech, "no lie lives forever." with the bitter postscripts of the race riots in Northern cities and the murder of a Illinois housewife by klansmen as she was driving marchers back to Selma.
The third is the Boston Busing Crisis in the middle 1970s. Its more resonant with me, having lived in the city during the tail end of it, and for my students its relatively local.
The second is the confrontation at Selma, ending the first half of the series with King's triumphant speech, "no lie lives forever." with the bitter postscripts of the race riots in Northern cities and the murder of a Illinois housewife by klansmen as she was driving marchers back to Selma.
The third is the Boston Busing Crisis in the middle 1970s. Its more resonant with me, having lived in the city during the tail end of it, and for my students its relatively local.