Crash Course
Emmett Till: Crash Course Black American History
In 1955, a 14 year old boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Money, Mississippi. The white men who murdered him killed him for being Black. Emmett Till's mother chose to have an open casket funeral, and show the world what had...
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.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar - Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity
Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar was born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles, California. He received his BA in History from Morehouse College in Atlanta. He earned his MA and Ph.D. in U.S. History with a minor in African studies from...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy B. Tyson - The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Timothy B. Tyson - The Blood of Emmett Till - Carolyn Bryant - The Interview
Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book, The Blood of Emmett Till , won the...
Poetry Foundation
Jonny Sun reads "I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store"
Jonny Sun reads a poem by Eve L. Ewing, imagining what Emmett Till would have been like if he had lived to become an old man living an ordinary life.
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Newsy’s Latest Headlines
Democratic presidential candidates debate, House votes on anti-lynching act and President Trump to hold news conference on coronavirus.
Curated Video
Religious leaders mark 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination
Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, religious leaders and admirers were marking the anniversary of his death with speeches, singing and quiet reflection on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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Curated Video
MLK'S Death 'Not the End of the Movement'
Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, religious leaders and admirers were marking the anniversary of his death with speeches, singing and quiet reflection on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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Curated Video
MLK'S Death 'Not the End of the Movement'
Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, religious leaders and admirers were marking the anniversary of his death with speeches, singing and quiet reflection on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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PBS
Mary Church Terrell | Unladylike2020
Catalytic events wake people up. For Mary Church Terrell the lynching of her friend Thomas Moss lead to her involvement in the catalytic events of suffrage, anti-lynching, and desegregation. Learn more about this amazing woman and her...
C-SPAN
On This Day: Emmett Till and the Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement
The murder of Emmett Till, a boy accused of whistling at a white woman in the deep South in the 1950s, galvanized the civil rights movement. His open casket—revealing the ugly horror of racism—reignited a movement. Clips include an...