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	Edith P. 31 minutes Source: Facing History and Ourselves Edith P. from Hungary describes life at Auschwitz and her journey in a cattle car to a work camp in Germany. This interview is part of the Elements of Timeseries.
	Eleanor Roosevelt (American Experience) 150 minutes Source: PBS Home Video For more than thirty years, Eleanor Roosevelt was America's most powerful woman. Drawing on interviews with her closest relatives, friends, and biographers, as well as rare home movie footage, the film reveals the hidden dimensions of one of the century's most influential women.
	Ellis Island 150 minutes on three VHS tapes Source: A&E Home Video Immigrants of various ethnic backgrounds recall their extraordinary adventures, historians explore the sometimes insensitive national policies, and the Ellis Island Oral History Project reveals what the immigration experience was actually like. Features rare photographs and film.
	Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario (Random House) When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. After eleven years, he set off alone, and without money, to find her. This book, based on a Pulitzer-prize winning series in the Los Angeles, chronicles his harrowing journey to be reunited with this mother, providing insight into the realities of immigration and the people who risk so much for a chance to live in the United States.
	Escape from Slavery by Francis Bok (St. Martin's Griffin) In this memoir, Francis Bok recounts his story of being kidnapped into slavery at the age of ten in the Sudan in 1986. For ten years, he lived in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. After two failed attempts to flee, each bringing severe beatings and death threats, Francis finally escaped at the age of seventeen. Now living in the United States and an antislavery activist, Bok has made it his mission to combat world slavery.
	Ethnic Notions 56 minutes, color Source: California Newsreel This award-winning documentary takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American social history. It traces the evolution of anti-black racism through popular culture by examining cartoons, feature films, popular songs, household artifacts and children's rhymes. This film is an excellent introduction to examining issues of stereotyping.
	Everyone Has a Story 10 minutes Source: Facing History and Ourseles
	Eye of the Beholder 20 minutes Source: Out of print This Twilight Zone episode is about a woman is undergoing a final attempt at reconstructive surgery on her face in an effort to make her "normal". When the bandages finally come off, the entire medical staff is horrified to find that once again, the surgery did not work. The twist comes when we find out exactly what "normal" is.
	Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement 14 episodes, 55 minutes each Available on 14 VHS tapes or 7 DVDs Source: PBS Video A comprehensive television documentary about the American Civil Rights Movement, utilizing rare historical film and present-day interviews. 1. Awakenings (1954-56) Focuses on the Mississippi lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the subsequent trial; Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott; the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and the entry of ordinary citizens and local leaders into the black struggle for freedom
	The Eugenics Movement in New England 20 minutes Source: WCVB-TV This episode of the news magazine Chronicle explores the history of the Eugenics movement in New England.

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