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Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 tackled voter suppression in the United States. While it significantly increased the registration of Black voters, it was not without controversy.
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Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark was an African American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African...
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Young Coretta Scott King
Correta Scott King is often known for being the wife of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., but she was so much more than that. She was an activist in her own right and came from a family that valued education above all else....
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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...
She is the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Activist, Eileen Kelley Walbert
Eileen Walbert was among the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama who took a stand for civil rights, as she describes in this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. [5:40]
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Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Activist, Lola Hendricks
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Lola Hendricks describes her work behind the scenes to advance the Civil Rights movement. [4:21]
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Fresh Air: James Farmer Jr., Freedom Ride Organizer
Read the background of James Farmer, Jr. and his actions during the Freedom Rides throughout the South in the summer of 1961. Listen to the complete interview he had with Terry Gross on National Public Radio's Fresh Air in 1985 that...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Decision in the Streets
This video segment, adapted from Decision in the Streets by civil rights filmmaker Harvey Richards, portrays the interracial protests that took place in San Francisco in 1963-64. [5:02]
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Source: Portrait of Medgar Evers
A thoughtful video explores a picture of Evers that is a possible foreshadowing of his death.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Practitioners of Nonviolence: Thoreau, Gandhi and King
Today we learn how some of the most famous practitioners of nonviolence influenced each other.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 237: Six Principles of Nonviolence Principle 6
On the podcast today, we discuss Martin Luther King Jr.'s sixth principle of nonviolence that the universe is on the side of justice.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics:role of the Church in the Civil Rights Movement Part 1
On today's podcast, we examine the role of the African American church in the years leading up to the civil rights movement.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 244: Children's March
Today, we discuss the Children's March of 1963.
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 248: Civil Rights Activists Part 3: John Lewis
On today's episode, we discuss the contributions of Congressman John Lewis to the civil rights movement.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 249: Civil Rights Activists Part 4: Andrew Young
Today we explore the life of civil rights activist Andrew Young.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 250: Civil Rights Activists Part 5: Mabel Staupers
On the podcast today: the life of nursing pioneer Mabel Staupers.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 251: Civil Rights Activists Part 6: Septima Clark
On today's episode, we discuss Septima Clark, known as the "Queen Mother of the American Civil Rights Movement."
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 252: Civil Rights Activists Part 7: Carolyn Mc Kinstry
Today we discuss civil rights activist Carolyn McKinstry.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 253: Doug Jones
Today we discuss attorney Doug Jones, who successfully prosecuted two Birmingham bombers.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 246: Civil Rights Activists Part 1: Fred Shuttlesworth
Today we discuss the life of Fred Shuttlesworth, a leading figure of the civil rights movement.
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: 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...