National Geographic
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. not only paved the way for African American citizens' civil rights, he created an example for women's groups, Hispanic groups, and groups with disabilities to fight for their rights as well. Learn more with a...
PBS
The Supreme Court: The Civil Rights Cases
The relationships between civil rights and the Supreme Court is a long, complicated chapter from American history. Pupils view a video, engage in discussion, and read background information to learn about the steps the highest court in...
Bill of Rights Institute
Grutter vs. Bollinger
How do you create protection under the law? While most Americans hear these words and think of the civil rights movement, in some cases, those rights could be violated for non-minority groups. Viewers investigate the Supreme Court case...
Bill of Rights Institute
Miranda vs. Arizona
Introduce learners to the Miranda vs. Arizona Supreme Court case with an informative video. They examine the rights of the accused upon their arrest—and learn more about Miranda Rights than the famous first line!
Bill of Rights Institute
Brown vs. Board of Education
How did education play into the civil rights movement? The second lesson of a 10-part series explains the Brown vs. Board of Education court case. It helps viewers examine and analyze, via rationale from the video clip, how segregation...
Crash Course
Selma
The 2014 film Selma is the focus of a film criticism video. The narrator examines how director Ava DuVernay brought to the screen the story of the voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama and how she uses...
Biography
Martin Luther King- Mini Biography
Whether you're celebrating Black History Month or studying the civil rights movement, you'll definitely want to include this brief video in your lesson to introduce your pupils to the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.
Curated OER
Freedom Summer
"We came together because we had to." A group of 300 volunteers worked together to head down to Mississippi and help push the Civil Rights Movement. Learn about some of their struggles and discuss the idea of social responsibility with...
Curated OER
Montgomery Bus Boycott
It's December 1, 1955, and a tired African American woman refuses to give up her seat for a white man on a bus in Montgomery. This woman is Rosa Parks. While she wasn't the first person to stay seated despite the current laws, her arrest...
Curated OER
James Meredith and Ole Miss
"Americans are free to disagree with the law, but not to disobey it." Mobs were rampant on the campus of Ole Miss during the years of desegregation, or integration, and Kennedy attempted to discourage any mobs and riots while the first...
PBS
Politics of a Movement in a Segregated Society | Carrie Chapman Catt
The entire text of the 19th amendment is only two sentences long. It declares that the right of citizens to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." However, the passing of the...
Curated OER
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Let's stand united! Back in 1964 the United States changed forever. Laws were enacted that called for equal rights among everyone. Listen to the changes the laws caused in the years that followed.
Curated OER
Lesson 2/3 - Women's Rights
"New rights, new underwear!" Learn about women's changing attitudes and how women made the shift from homemakers to factory workers.
Curated OER
Teaching American History: Civil Rights in Film: Part 2
Did you know that Rosa Parks was the secretary for the NAACP? Her famous refusal to give up her bus seat was actually a premeditated act designed by the NAACP to draw light the growing civil rights movement. In part two, professor Melani...
BBC
Bbc: 1962: Mississippi Race Riots Over 1st Black Student
This article recounts the entrance of Mississippi State University's first black student, James Meredith. Note that he was escorted by National Guardsmen, as requested by President Kennedy, in order to protect his safety.
Indiana University
The Center on Congress: Congressional Moments Videos
View brief videos examining key legislation throughout our nation's history that impacts our lives today. Topics include Child Labor, Civil Rights, Securities and Exchange Commission, National Park Service, The Marshall Plan, and Women's...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Ole Miss, 40 Years Later
Listen to NPR's series on the story of James Meredith's efforts to enter Ole Miss and what the campus is like forty years later.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Half Past Autumn
Transcript of an interview with Gordon Parks in which he discusses his life, career, and works in a variety of art forms.
PBS
Pbs American Experience: A Class Apart
In 1951, in the small town of Edna, Texas, a murder led to a civil rights case that would change the life and legal standing of Hispanic people. This documentary tells the story of the events, and the Mexican American lawyers who took...
A&E Television
History.com: Black History Month
The History Channel presents a video on the history behind Black History Month with numerous links to videos of key events, biographies of famous African Americans, the history of Civil Rights, and much more. The audio and video clips...
A&E Television
History.com: History of the Civil Rights Movement
The History Channel offers a comprehensive look at the struggle for Civil Rights beginning with the earliest black immigrants in the 1400s to African American gains in the late 20th century. Links to related video clips are included. [2:33]
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, Economic Citizenship
"In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America," is delivered by Alice Kessler-Harris. A detail heavy presentation differentiating between equality and equity and what that does within...
Other
Makers: Marian Wright Edelman
In this series of video interviews with Marian Wright Edelman, she presents her clear case for the need in America to pay close attention to improving the situation of children, especially poor children, and the need to encourage...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Created Equal: Freedom Riders
A documentary film that tells the story of the Freedom Riders who in1961 protested segregation by riding interstate buses into the Deep South of the United States. There they faced racial violence and hatred with no protection from law...