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Stitch Media: Redress Remix: Righting a Wrong Endured by Chinese Canadians
A documentary response to the Canadian government's efforts to redress wrongs to Chinese immigrants in the past, particularly the notorious "head tax." Explore the history of this discrimination through videos, historical photos, and...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Fresh Air: The Politics of Passing 1964's Civil Rights Act
Listen to or read the transcript of the interview Terry Gross of NPR had with the author of An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a book describing the background and...
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...
PBS
Pbs the Presidents: Lyndon B. Johnson
Here you can find a detailed biography of Lyndon B. Johnson and an overview of his presidency. Content includes a focus on LBJ's early career, domestic politics, foreign affairs, presidential politics, and legacy. A teacher's guide and a...
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]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Class Divided 1: The Daring Lesson
This segment from FRONTLINE: "A Class Divided" profiles an experiment in discrimination based on eye color that took place in a third-grade class in 1970. [10:27]
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Integration Report 1
Integration Report 1 is a civil rights documentary covering the year between 1959 and 1960 in Montgomery, Alabama, in Brooklyn, New York, and in Washington, D.C..
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights Before Civil War Pt. 12: The Ideal of Equality
The ideal of equality was stated in the Declaration of Independence. Abolitionists and African Americans used this as an argument against segregation.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights of African Americans Pt. 14: Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests
Southern states after the Civil War devised many methods for preventing African Americans from voting.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 6: Segregation in the 1950s
On today's episode we examine segregation in the 1950s. This episode originally aired in November 2011.
History Link
History Link: Gordon Hirabayashi
Biography of Gordon Hirabayashi, who defied the U.S. government's curfew and evacuation orders for Japanese and Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Stanford University
Stanford University: The Voice of King
Listen to audio excerpts from some of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s greatest speeches. There is a large selection available in RealAudio or QuickTime formats.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Origins of Jim Crow Part 4
Reconstruction ended in the South and federal troops left once the Compromise Act was passed in 1877. This freed up the South to pass Jim Crow laws to enforce segregation. Then the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) in the Supreme Court...