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Local Tampa Bay Educational Resources

Carter G. Woodson Museum
Woodson African American Museum of Florida

Located in St. Petersburg, the mission of the Woodson African American Museum of Florida is to preserve, present, and interpret African American history and to engage a broad and diverse audience on issues of social justice.

Florida Holocaust Museum
Florida Holocaust Museum

The Florida Holocaust Museum honors the memory of millions of innocent men, women and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. The Museum is dedicated to teaching the members of all races and cultures the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides.

Educational Resources

Books

  • Black is the Body – Emily Bernard
  • The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
  • So You Want to Talk About Race - Iseoma Oluo
  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin Di Angelo
  • Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism – Barry M. Prizant
  • Know the Night – Maria Mutch
  • America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States – Erika Lee
  • Citizen 13660 – Miné Okubo
  • Profound and Perfect Things – Maribel Garcia
  • Occupied America: A History of Chicanos – Rodolfo Acuña
  • When We Rise: My Life in the Movement – Cleve Jones
  • The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  • After the War Zone – Matthew J. Friedman
  • The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Children/Middle School Books
  • Tani’s New Home - Tanitoluwa Adewumi
  • Lost and Found Cat - Doug Kuntz; Amy Shrodes
  • Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope - Jodie Patterson
  • Malala’s Magic Pencil - Malala Yousafzai
  • Thurgood - Jonah Winter
  • From the Desk of Zoe Washington - Janae Marks
  • Wonder – R.J. Palacio
  • I See Things Differently: A First Look at Autism – Pat Thomas
  • I Choose to Speak Up – Elizabeth Estrada

Podcasts

  • Disability Visibility
  • Ouch: Disability Talk by BBC
  • Alt.Latino
  • Latinx on the Rise
  • Parity Podcast - For Working Women and their Allies
  • Don’t Call Me Resilient
  • HomeGrown
  • Coming Out, Blak (also hits the LGBTQI+ community)
  • Queer as Fact
  • Intersectionality Matters!
  • The Warrior Soul Podcast
  • Beyond the Uniform
  • Vietnamese Boat People
  • Asian Enough

Film and TV Series

Netflix
  • Colin in Black & White (Ava DuVernay, Colin Kaepernick)
  • When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)
  • Atypical (Mohamed Bashiti)
  • Mudbound – Dee Rees
Disney+
  • Coco (Lee Unkrich)
  • Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi)
  • Bao - short film (Domee Shi)
Hulu
  • Fresh off the Boat (Bill Purple)
  • Love Victor (Jason Ensler)
  • Changing the Game (Michael Barnett)
  • PRIDE (Tom Kalin)
HBO
  • For Rosa (Kathryn Boyd Batstone)
  • Rizo (Jeanette Dilone)
  • Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
Apple TV+
  • CODA (Sian Heder)
Amazon Prime
  • Switched at Birth (Douglas Barr)
  • American Sniper (Clint Eastwood)

Online resources