Government - Dr. Peregrino: DVDs

It's time to meet the Congress. The Standard Deviants break down the rules and regulations for getting into Congress and then show you what the members of Congress do once they get there. It's a lot more than just voting, and it's a lot more complicated than you might think. See how Congress organizes itself and proposes the legislation that affects us every day.

This program explores the origins, outbreak, and outcome of the American Revolution, the major political texts which grew out of that struggle, and their ongoing significance today.

"A government of the people, by the people, and for the people isn't possible without the laborious process of nominating and electing candidates, in a manner fair and free to all citizens. How did this process begin and how has it evolved over the course of American history?"

"Many equate it with the Presidency, but the Executive branch of our government is far more complex than that. Containing departments and agencies that directly affect the health, safety, security, and prosperity of the American public, the Executive branch is an administrative mountain with the White House at its peak."

"September 24th, 1789--the First United States Congress establishes the basic structure of the Federal Judiciary. With this act, the American legal system becomes an entity entwined with our fundamental notions of democracy and fair government, equal in power and authority to the Executive and Legislative branches."

v. 1. One nation under law
v. 2. A new kind of justice
v. 3. A nation of liberties
v. 4. The Rehnquist revolution

This is a four part television series documentary. It premiered nationally on PBS in April 1996. The program consists of four one-hour episodes.

In the small town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hernández killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a cantina. From this murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would change the lives and legal standing of ten of millions of Americans. Tells the story of an underdog band of Mexican American lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they challenged Jim Crow-style discriminiation against Mexican Americans. Lawyers forged a daring legal strategy, arguing that Mexican Americans were "a class apart" from a legal system that recognized only blacks and whites.

Disc 1. Awakenings, 1954-1956
Disc 2. Ain't scared of your jails, 1960-1961
Disc 3. Mississippi: Is this America? 1962-1964

It chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds.

"Tells the story of Dr. Hector P. Garcia--Mexican Revolution refugee, physician to the barrios, decorated veteran, political activist and presidential confidante--as he fought to bring attention to the Mexican American civil rights movement."

A documentary on the Mexican-American civil rights movement. The film tells the story of one key injustice, the refusal, by a small-town funeral home in Texas after World War II, to care for a dead soldier's body 'because the whites wouldn't like it,' and shows how the incident sparked outrage nationwide and contributed to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Based on the book To the Best of My Ability, The Presidents features insight from journalists, scholars, and politicians, as well as rare and unseen photographs and footage.

into the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, to the 1965 march on Montgomery, along with biographies of two of the leaders of the movement.
v. 1. Voices of civil rights; Mississippi State secrets; Crossing the bridge
v. 2. Martin Luther King, Jr.: the man and the dream; Thurgood Marshall: justice for all.