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Contemporary Issues

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This playlist provides clips that introduce students to many modern-day issues facing our society.

The Great Debaters: The Time for Justice
00:00 - 02:58
2m 58s
history
american history
rights
socio-economic rights
right to education
racial segregation
unequal access to education

The plot of The Great Debaters revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson at a historically black Wiley College to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s. The movie explores the social fabric of Texas during the Great Depression, for which as long as schools are segregated for whites and blacks, the quality of education will be vastly unequal.

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