Instructional Video5:43
Wonderscape

Segregated Beaches and the Fight for Equal Access

K - 5th
Explore the struggles and protests for equal access to public beaches during the Jim Crow era, including the tragic story of Eugene Williams and the Chicago riots of 1919. Learn about wade-ins and the efforts to desegregate beaches,...
Instructional Video6:49
Mr. Beat

Ending School Segregation | Brown v. Board of Education

6th - 12th
In episode 8 of Supreme Court Briefs, the Court unanimously has major issues with Plessy v. Ferguson, and ends up dramatically changing the future of the Civil Rights Movement by ruling segregation "inherently unequal.”
Instructional Video8:46
Cerebellum

America, An Emerging World Power: 1896-1916 -plessy V. Ferguson (1896)

9th - 12th
American democracy has a lineage of written records that we can trace to show the development of our nation, and how each document builds on those before it to make our foundation of freedom stronger. This video focusses on documents...
Instructional Video17:35
Mazz Media

Standing Up For Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement in America

6th - 8th
From the fight to abolish slavery in the 1800s to the efforts to stop segregation in the 1900s, this program chronicles the civil rights movement in America. Students will learn about the courageous leaders of the Abolitionist Movement...
News Clip0:28
Curated Video

Homer Plessy, Key To "Separate But Equal," On Road To Pardon

Higher Ed
The Louisiana Board of Pardons voted unanimously to pardon the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 4: Arguing the Fourteenth Amendment

9th - 10th
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the issue at the heart of Brown v. Board of Education: whether the Fourteenth Amendment applied to segregated schools. [5:50]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 3: The Trial Begins

9th - 10th
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" captures the legal issues and opening arguments in Brown v. Board of Education. [6:44]
Instructional Video
Other

Telling Their Stories: Civil Rights Struggle

9th - 10th
Watch and listen to interviews of former students from Burgland High School in McComb, Mississippi, drawing on their experiences during the Civil Rights Movement. Burgland High School was involved in a large student walk-out in 1961.
Audio
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Thurgood Marshall and "Brown v. Board of Ed."

9th - 10th
A short site from NPR that showcases Marshall on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Hear the entire segment from NPR's Morning Edition, hear audio clips from interviews, and see photos of Marshall. Site also includes...
Audio
Center For Civic Education

60 Second Civics: Plessy v. Ferguson

9th - 10th
The Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) permitted racial segregation so long as facilities were separate but equal. This type of segregation endured for nearly sixty years.
Audio
Center For Civic Education

60 Second Civics: Brown v. Board of Education

9th - 10th
In the Brown v. Board of Education case, a father fought the issue of racial segregation in the schools. He lost and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Origins of Jim Crow Part 4

9th - 10th
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...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Plessy v. Ferguson

9th - 10th
Plessy v. Ferguson was an 1896 Supreme Court case concerning whether "separate but equal" railway cars for black and white Americans violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In this video, Kim discusses the case...