Crash Course
The American Revolution Crash Course Black American History
When we talk about the American Revolution and Revolutionary War, the discussion often involves lofty ideals like liberty, and freedom, and justice. The Declaration of Independence even opens with the idea that "all men are created...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The hidden life of Rosa Parks
Throughout her life, Rosa Parks repeatedly challenged racial violence and the prejudiced systems protecting its perpetrators. Her refusal to move to the back of a segregated bus ignited a boycott that lasted 381 days and helped transform...
Wonderscape
The Tulsa Race Massacre: The Tragedy of Greenwood
Explore the events leading to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, where tensions between Black residents of Greenwood and white citizens erupted after the arrest of Dick Rowland. Learn how a white mob attacked Greenwood, leading to devastating...
Wonderscape
The Rise and Fall of Freedmen's Towns and the Red Summer
Discover the history of all-Black towns established after the Civil War, offering hope and refuge for newly freed Black Americans. Explore how events like D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" and the Red Summer of 1919 led to a...
Wonderscape
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: Black Resilience in the Face of Segregation
Explore the harsh realities of life under Jim Crow laws, from segregated public spaces to the struggles of Black soldiers returning home from war. Learn about the courage of figures like Jackie Robinson and Isaac Woodard, Jr., whose...
Wonderscape
Understanding Systemic Racism: Its Roots and Impact
This video delves into the concept of systemic racism, exploring its historical foundations and present-day implications in the United States. It explains the distinction between individual and institutional racism, highlighting how...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Measuring the Danger of Segregation
An 1869 study incorrectly stated that black Union soldiers had lower lung capacity than white soldiers. 150 years later, this same study is impacting the health and disability diagnosis of black patients. Structural segregation is still...
Curated Video
The Explosive Story of Dynamite Hill
When Black residents moved into one neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, White supremacists unleashed a wave of terror against the community.
Next Animation Studio
Federal government reopens 1955 Emmett Till murder case
The U.S. Justice Department has reopened the 63-year-old murder case of a black teen, whose violent death helped build momentum for the civil rights movement.
Curated Video
The Waco Horror: the Unjust Killing of Jesse Washington
The body of Fryer, a fifty-three-year-old white woman, was found by her children on the family’s property in Robinson, seven miles southeast of Waco. Jesse Washington, a laborer on Fryer’s farm, was arrested and charged with Fryer’s...
Curated Video
White Mob Lynches Frank Embree Hours Before Trial in Missouri
Frank Embree was nineteen when he was accused of raping a 14-year-old white girl. Embree was from the state of Missouri, and Black men convicted of rape of a White woman were sentenced to death by lynching. His horrifying story shows the...
Curated Video
Mary Turner: A Young Black Woman Dehumanized
On May 16, 1918, a plantation owner was murdered, prompting a manhunt which resulted in a series of lynchings in May 1918 in southern Georgia, United States. White people killed at least 13 black people during the next two weeks. Among...
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...