Let's all go to the lobby.

Let's all go to the lobby.

Let's all go to the lobby to get ourselves a treat.

I'm Asan Kwame Jeffries, and this is a bonus episode of teaching hard history, American slavery.

This special series is from Teaching Tolerant, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

This podcast provides a detailed look at how to teach important aspects of the history of American slavery.

In our previous episode, we spoke with Ron Briley about using film to teach slavery in the classroom.

And students do notice the connections between the two films, and many times leads

us into discussion of how the memory of slavery is molded in the American mind.

In this bonus episode, Ron provides a great list of additional films and documentaries

that you can use with your students.

I'll see you on the other side. Enjoy.

Previously, we discussed teaching American slavery and using films such as Birth of a Nation, Gone with a Wind, Amistad,

and Glory could be incorporated into the history classroom to teach about American slavery.

Today I'd like to talk about additional films one might bring into the classroom to teach slavery.

And there are a number of choices, both documentary and feature films.

So I would like to briefly talk about a few of these films that teachers might consider using.

First, maybe we should look at documentaries.

And it's very important for teachers to realize that documentaries are not simply facts.

They're representations of facts and that documentaries have a point of view, which they're trying

to drive home.

And so students need to be very careful when presented with documentaries and ask some of the same questions of documentaries that they ask of feature films.

...