Hearst Metrotone News
African Americans and student demonstrators form a picket line in front of Woolworth's to oppose the segregation of lunch counters.
African Americans and student demonstrators form a picket line in front of Woolworth's to oppose the segregation of lunch counters.
Hearst Metrotone News
Young African Americans paint, dance and play sports.
Young African Americans paint, dance and play sports.
Khan Academy
US History Overview 2 - Reconstruction to the Great Depression
Ambitiously spanning American history from 1865 to 1941, this video discusses and clarifies topics such as women's suffrage, the sinking of the Maine, and the development of America as a world empire. Maps and photographs will engage...
PBS
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign
Two short PBS videos introduce young scholars to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 Poor People's Campaign, his support for the Memphis sanitation worker's strike, and the plans for the march on Washington, D.C., to fight poverty. Viewers...
TED-Ed
What Is Juneteenth, and Why Is It so Important?
A short TEDEd video details the history of Juneteenth celebrations, the events of June 19, 1865, and the importance of Juneteenth celebrations.
National Woman's History Museum
Women's History Minute: Ida B. Wells
Before Rosa Parks, there was Ida B. Wells. In 1884, Wells was arrested for refusing to leave the first-class women's car on a train to Chicago. Born into slavery, raised in the south, Wells became a newspaper publisher, an advocate for...
National Constitution Center
14th Amendment Discussion Starter: The Black Codes
The Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws were rules that served the same purpose: to restrict the rights of African Americans. Young historians watch performers read Black Code laws from different states to explain how African Americans were...
PBS
Jim Crow Laws Influence the Fight for Women's Suffrage | Carrie Chapman Catt
A short, but very thought-filled video, examines the how Carrie Chapman Catt's push for passage of the 19th Amendment was impacted by Jim Crow Laws in southern states. Viewers are asked to consider the compromises made and whether the...
PBS
Reconstruction: The Black Codes
During the era of Reconstruction, the planter class of the South tried to replicate the time before the Civil War by squashing rights given in the Thirteenth, Fourteenths and Fifteenth amendments. Using a video clip featuring renowned...
PBS
Reconstruction: The Birth of a Nation - Rewriting History through Propaganda
How historically accurate was the film The Birth of a Nation? Using a video that features clips from the film and analysis from historians, young scholars explore the connection between art and history. Additional activities...
PBS
Preaching the Gospel of the Revolution
Articulate and determined, passionate about equal treatment for all Americans, James Baldwin was an early spokesman for the Civil Rights Movement. The short PBS video provides viewers with the opportunity to hear Baldwin share his ideas...
C-SPAN
On This Day: Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-In
More than an iconic image, the picture of young people sitting at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., to protest segregation and Jim Crow laws also sparked a new phase of the civil rights movement. Video clips, including activists,...
National Geographic
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. not only paved the way for African American citizens' civil rights, he created an example for women's groups, Hispanic groups, and groups with disabilities to fight for their rights as well. Learn more with a...
University of Virginia
The Songs in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Experience Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in an innovative, musical way. A list of audio links leads class members to spirituals from the novel, such as "Die in the Field," "The Wings in the Morning," and "Blow Ye the...
Macat
An Introduction to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow
Is the War on Drugs responsible for the inordinate number of black Americans sent to prison for non-violent drug offensives? That's MIchelle Alexander's contention in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Jim Crow and the Fight for American Citizenship
[Free Registration/Login Required] Johnathan Halloway presents a long lecture covering civil rights from the 1920's and 1930's in the United States. Within this presentation, Halloway identifies the historical events and the national...
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws mainly targeted African Americans and took the form of poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 2: De Jure Segregation
On today's podcast, we define de jure segregation. This is a rebroadcast of a show that originally aired on November 4, 2011.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 8: Resisting Jim Crow
On today's episode, we discuss Jim Crow laws and the ways African Americans organized to resist them.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Jim Crow
Jim Crow laws were adopted by most Southern states after the end of Reconstruction.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lucy Laney
This video segment from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow addresses the life and impact of Lucy Laney, the founder of the Haines Normal and Industrial School in Augusta, Georgia. Laney was an influential Jim Crow-era educator. She believed...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Origins of Jim Crow Part 2
Explains how the South responded to the end of slavery by enacting the Black Code laws that prevented African Americans from exercising the rights they had been given, e.g., voting. To combat this, Congress passed the Fourteenth...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: The Origins of Jim Crow: Introduction
Explains what the Jim Crow laws were and about segregation in the South after the Civil War. [6:33]