LibGuides: Critical Conversations with Erin Gruwell & The Freedom Writers: Works of Erin Gruwell & The Freedom Writers

The Freedom Writers

The Freedom Writers Foundation
"The Freedom Writers Foundation focuses on four main programs that improve the education of students around the globe. We train educators to teach every student, develop interesting and substantive curriculum for students, award scholarships to first-generation high school graduates, and bring hope by sharing our stories of overcoming adversity through education."

Freedom Writers
Call Number: PN1995.9.M45 F74 2007
The film is based on the book "The Freedom Writers Diary" by Erin Gruwell and her students who compiled the book out of real diary entries about their lives that they wrote in their English class.
Film trailer

Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart
PBS Special (56m 7s), Aired: 09/02/19 and Expires: 09/16/19
"It’s 1994 and Long Beach, California is a racially divided community filled with drugs, gang warfare and homicides. Inside the classroom, Erin Gruwell encounters hostility and racial divisions between students. The struggle and strife on the streets has carried into the school halls. Follow a teacher’s journey to change the lives of her students."
Freedom Writers Podcast (Apple, iTunes)
Freedom Writers Podcast (Stitcher)
Becoming a Catalyst for Change: Erin Gruwell at TEDxChapmanU
Published on Jul 13, 2012
Erin Gruwell - The Freedom Writers at TEDxConejo
Published on May 15, 2011