Curated Video
Mary Church Terrell: Championing Suffrage and Civil Rights
Mary Church Terrell was a lifelong activist who advocated for suffrage and equal rights.
Curated Video
When the Youth of Birmingham Changed History
In 1963, school children from Birmingham, Alabama skipped class to demonstrate for racial equality. Met with police violence, they helped to bring about significant change. The Birmingham Children's Crusade, as it was known, has gone...
Curated Video
Zoot Suit Riots
Did you know that in LA, it’s illegal to wear Zoot suits? A fashion crime that dates back to the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Indigenous Australian Suffrage
Ms Represented is a series that charts the rise of Australian female politicians over the last one hundred years and the unbelievable things they got up to along the way. Eight years after Australian women gained the right to vote and to...
Curated Video
The Bill of Rights: Cornerstone of US Society?
Written by Founding Father James Madison in 1789, The Bill of Rights makes up the first ten amendments to the US Constitution. Many people still consider the Bill of Rights to be the cornerstone of our society, but not everyone agrees.
Curated Video
Ruby Bridges and the Fight for Integration in Education
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. She is the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on...
History Hit
Africa, The Unknown History of Humankind: Africans and pop culture
What are Gus Casely-Hayford's views of Africans in popular culture? How does "word", "symbol", and "song" work together and what makes them so powerful? Africa, The Unknown History of Humankind, Part 5
Curated Video
The Black Wall Street Massacre
Tulsa, Okalahoma's Greenwood District was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States in the 1920s and was known as "Black Wallstreet." Many of the White citizens of the city resented Greenwood's...
Curated Video
Marian Anderson: The Opera Singer Who Challenged Segregation
When Black singer Marian Anderson was barred from performing in Washington by the Daughters of the Revolution – her Lincoln Memorial performance made her an icon of the Civil Rights Movement.
Curated Video
Civil Rights Movement: The Fight for Equality
The fight for Civil Rights in America has been fought by many groups of diverse peoples, all striving for equality.
Curated Video
Garrett Morgan
Kentucky-born Garrett Morgan invented life saving gadgets, but despite facing racial prejudice all his life, Morgan was recognised as one of America’s most prolific and socially conscious inventors
Mr. Beat
When the Supreme Court Justified Japanese Internment Camps: Korematsu v. United States
After the United States government forces Japanese American citizens into relocation centers during World War II, one man refuses and gets himself into some big trouble.
Curated Video
Jim Thorpe: Native American Olympic Hero
Football, baseball, basketball player – he was one of America's most talented sportsmen and the first Native American to achieve Olympic Gold glory! So why don't we see Jim Thorpe's name up in lights?
Curated Video
Breaking Barriers: Constance Baker Motley
Breaking through the limits placed on women and people of color was all in a day’s work for Constance Baker Motley. She was a civil rights activist, lawyer, judge and state senator.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Johnny E. Williams - White Supremacy
Johnny E. Williams is the author of African-American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas (University Press of Mississippi 2003) and Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics (Lexington Books 2016). The former book examines the...
Mr. Beat
How to End Racism
How do we end racism? I think I have a solution, and it first begins with knowing what the actual definitions of "racism" and "race" are.
1) Acknowledge race has no genetic basis, and was a term invented by one group people to justify...
PBS
To Kill, To Kill a Mockingbird?
One of the trademark texts of the American school system is Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. For decades it has been widely read in high schools and middle schools as a key anti-racist text. But how did this novel, with its...
Wonderscape
Social Studies Kids: Understanding Social Inequality
This video discusses the history and ongoing struggles of racial inequality, LGBTQ rights, and systemic racism in the United States. It highlights the impact of slavery, segregation, and discriminatory practices on marginalized...
Wonderscape
Social Studies Kids: Cultural Diversity
This video explores the importance of cultural diversity and multiculturalism. It discusses the definition of culture, the benefits of embracing diverse perspectives, and the barriers to multiculturalism. It also provides suggestions for...
The Art Assignment
The Case for Surrealism | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our...
Mr. Beat
Japanese American Internment Camps Explained
Here's the story of the Japanese American concentration camps that were established throughout the United States during World War II.
Red Rock Films
Who was Jim Crow?
How one white actor's creation came to represent the most racist laws in America - and how those laws were crushed.
Seven Dimensions
Combating Prejudice and Discrimination in the Workplace
This video discusses the topics of prejudice and discrimination in the workplace. It explores the harmful effects of prejudging others based on appearances and the importance of promoting diversity, empathy, and open communication in...
Press Association
Sunak says Britain is not a racist country in party conference speech
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that Britain is not a racist country in his speech at the Conservative party conference in Manchester.