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Pbs Learning Media: James Farmer and the Freedom Rides
In this video interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Freedom Ride organizer James Farmer describes the interracial bus rides through the South that tested desegregation and sparked white resistance. [6:45]
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Pbs Learning Media: Implementing Brown
Point/counterpoint commentary on the president's actions after the Brown ruling; from American Experience: "Eisenhower." [6:32]
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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]
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Pbs Learning Media: Miriam Mc Clendon
In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Miriam McClendon recalls her arrest and jailing for participation in the Children's Crusade of 1963. [6:22]
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Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Leader, Robert Moses
In this video segment, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, activist Robert Moses talks about the Mississippi voting rights campaign. [4:00]
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Pbs Learning Media: Excerpts From the March on Washington, Part 1
This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, captures the voices of several civil rights leaders.
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Pbs Learning Media: Excerpts From the March on Washington, Part 2
This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, pays tribute to the women -- both leaders and widows of slain leaders -- of the Civil Rights movement.
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Pbs: Sammy Davis, Jr.: Celebrities, Activism, and the Civil Rights Movement
Explore how celebrities can use their influence to support social and political movements in this video [5:06] from American Masters, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me. Learn about the contributions of Sammy Davis, Jr. during the Civil...
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Pbs: Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me: Race, Politics, and Identity
Explore the complex identity of Sammy Davis, Jr. and its impact on his career as a performer in this video from American Masters, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me. As a black man in a predominantly white industry, Sammy struggled to be...
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Pbs Learning Media: Preaching the Gospel of the Revolution: American Masters
James Baldwin was living in France in 1957 when he heard about Dorothy Counts, a black American teenager who was spat on after enrolling at an all-white North Carolina high school. He immediately vowed to return to the United States to...
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Pbs Learning Media: All Men Are Brothers: American Masters
This video [3:38] segment from American Masters' James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket illustrates the activist's intolerance for violence or racial hatred expressed by anyone, black or white. In the mid-1960s, Baldwin's principles put...
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Pbs Learning Media: Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise: Maya and Malcolm X
Learn about the connection between Maya Angelou and Malcolm X, and their work in Ghana, in this video [3:13] from American Masters, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise. Discussion questions are included.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: People Get Ready, Making of African American Identity: V. 3
This resource describes popular anthem that expresses the early hopes of the civil rights movement by Curtis Mayfield. It explores the obstacles the civil rights movement had to overcome and the movement's affect on the lives of African...
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..
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: m.l.k. The Dream of Kings
A collage of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. produced shortly after his death includes comments from President Lyndon Johnson, Sammy Davis Junior, James Brown, Hubert Humphrey and more. If includes clips form several of his...
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Naacp
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has played a critical role in improving the lives of African Americans in its battle against all types of racial discrimination.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 10: Preparation and Education
Today we examine the importance of preparation and education in the civil rights movement. This episode originally aired in November 2011.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 11: Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott
On today's podcast, we discuss Rosa Parks, the NAACP, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Montgomery bus boycott. This episode originally aired in November 2011.
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 16: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Today
On today's podcast, we discuss how the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is applied today. 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.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
Talks about the beginnings of the civil rights movement after the government did not provide the protection that was promised to African Americans in the Fourteenth Amendment.
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:the Civil Rights Movement
Brown v. Board of Education was a turning point in the fight against demonstration, but the struggle against inequality had just begun.