A&E Television
History.com: History of the Civil Rights Movement
The History Channel offers a comprehensive look at the struggle for Civil Rights beginning with the earliest black immigrants in the 1400s to African American gains in the late 20th century. Links to related video clips are included. [2:33]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Take This Hammer
In this video [1:55] segment from "Take this Hammer," a 1963 film from THIRTEEN's archive, activist and author James Baldwin seeks to raise morale among a group of African American adolescents in San Francisco in the early 1960s. Baldwin...
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Negro Colleges in Wartime
World War II film covering the education and training of African Americans in agriculture, design & manufacturing, and more at Howard, Tuskegee, Hampton Roads, and more. [8:00]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Rights Before Civil War Pt. 10: Not Slaves but Not Free
Even free African Americans living in the North in the nineteenth century were not treated as full citizens.
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: 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.
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: African American Women in Congress
NPR answers a question concerning the number of African American women that have served in Congress.
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.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Open Wide the Freedom Gates
This intriguing interview with Dr. Dorothy Height discusses her experiences as a leader in the African American community. Dr. Height talks about her experiences in the civil rights movements and about the strides made for African...
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg Past & Present Podcasts
Podcasts of interviews with many artisans, historians, and tour guides at Colonial Williamsburg.
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: The Great Migration
A short video regarding the Great Migration of the 1910s and 20s, including the causes and effects of the migration. [4:18]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Black Codes and Reconstruction
In the period after the Civil War in the American South, when Southern society reorganized to account for the end of slavery. In this video, Kim discusses how many Southern governments passed laws preventing African Americans from...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: Uncle Tom's Cabin Plot and Analysis
What actually happened in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin that so affected nineteenth century audiences? Kim and Becca discuss the plot and social implications of Uncle Tom's Cabin. [6:19]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: Uncle Tom's Cabin Fugititive Slave Act
How could a novel start a war? Kim and Becca discuss the growing sectional conflict in the 1850s that surrounded the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. [7:31]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges & Universities
This collection features resources from Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities to facilitate dialogue and deepen understanding of the history, growth, and current challenges facing historically black...
Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image: Civil Rights
Presents a brief description of the issue of civil rights and its place in a variety of campaign commercials between the years 1956-1976. You can either listen to the commercial itself or just read the transcript.