Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 12: Violence in Birmingham
On today's episode, we examine the civil rights protests of 1963. This episode originally aired in November 2011.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 14: Civil Rights Act of 1964
On today's podcast, we examine the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This episode originally aired in November 2011.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 22:civil Rights Movement After m.l. King Jr.
On the podcast today, we discuss how the civil rights movement changed after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. This episode originally aired in November 2011.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Wallace in the Schoolhouse Door
This multimedia account describes the civil rights standoff between George Wallace and two black students trying to enroll at the University of Alabama. Audio and video clips are included.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 225: Civil Rights Movement Part 4
On today's episode, we discuss how racial segregation and discrimination was deeply entrenched in American life in the 1950s.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 247: Civil Rights Activists Part 2: Dorothy Cotton
Today we discuss the life of civil rights leader Dorothy Cotton.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 254: Civil Rights Since Mid Twentieth Century Part 1
On today's episode, we discuss how the movement for civil rights has changed since the mid-twentieth century.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics:an Agreement on Desegregation
We continue our Black History Month series with a discussion of the agreement to desegregate Birmingham.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Christopher Paul Curtis: Classroom Cast
This site shares a classroom cast with the author Christopher Paul Curtis. Newbery Award winner, Christopher Paul Curtis discusses his new novel The Mighty Miss Malone, his early writing career and the publication of The Watsons Go to...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Mlk: The Lost Tapes
The African-American and Jewish communities struggled together during the Civil Rights movement. Here is an in-depth look at Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech at the Temple Israel of Hollywood, which provides clips of the speech and...
Other
Reading Through History: The Black Panther Party
This video gives a brief description of the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party. [5:19]
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
Audio story offers a discussion of a book on baseball legend Jackie Robinson and how he became "a ballplayer with the guts not to fight back."
iCivics
I Civics: Students and the Struggle for School Integration
Before there was Brown v. Board, there was Barbara Johns, a teenager who organized a student walkout for better conditions for her segregated school. Use this new video to discuss the history of school desegregation and the role of young...
PBS
Pbs: Indian Pride: Historical Overview, Part 2
This interview covers a timeline that explains American Indian governance and relationship structures based on sacred creation stories. [10:32]
iCivics
I Civics: The Shelleys & the Right to Fair Housing
For decades, restrictive covenants prevented people of color from buying a home of their choice... until J.D. and Ethel Shelley challenged them. (1 min,55 sec)
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Collections: Civil Rights: Then and Now
While students today may think of the Civil Rights Movement as part of the distant past, it's clear that many of the problems that fueled that fight are still with us. This collection of videos, documents, and primary sources lends...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Today's Civil Rights Activists: Bree Newsome
Arrested for taking down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina State House grounds in 2015, Bree Newsome describes how she became an activist, in this video from Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now. While she has always been politically...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Al Sharpton: The Road to Racial Justice
Al Sharpton expresses his thoughts on racial equality in America and describes the challenge today's activists face in order to organize for - and sustain - real change, in this video from Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now. Sharpton...
PBS
Htt Pbs Learning Media: The Civil Rights Landscape Today for People of Color
Discover ways in which systemic inequality persists today in the lives of people of color, women, and those living in both urban and rural areas, in this video from Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now. Many communities have been denied...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights: Internet Activism and Social Change
Examine social media's influence in America's Civil Rights movement and its role in democratizing the media, in this video from Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now. Activists, including DeRay McKesson, use social media to support the work of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Black Lives Matter: Campaigning for Racial Justice
Learn about the origins, objectives, and makeup of Black Lives Matter, an activist black youth-led movement that campaigns against police brutality and other forms of racism, in this video from Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now. The...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Activist John Lewis: Looking Back
Student activist Jonathan Butler and Congressman John Lewis sit down to discuss the Eyes on the Prize series and the Civil Rights Movement in this video from Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now. Lewis reflects on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery...
Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image: Civil Rights
Presents a brief description of the issue of civil rights and its place in a variety of campaign commercials between the years 1956-1976. You can either listen to the commercial itself or just read the transcript.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Feminist Art: Lesson 2
This lesson will explore Feminist Art. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Feminist Art."