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 3: De Facto Segregation
Today we define de facto segregation. This is a rebroadcast of an episode that originally aired in November, 2011.
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: 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.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Plessy v. Ferguson
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.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Brown v. Board of Education
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.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Brown v. Board of Education Part 2
The Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v Board of Education (1954) ended school segregation but was difficult to enforce.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 224: Civil Rights Movement Part 3
Today we discuss two types of segregation that contributed to racial polarization in the United States.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Inequalities in Patterns of Interaction: Lesson 2
This lesson will define miscegenation, pluralism, assimilation, segregation, genocide, and apartheid. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Inequalities in Patterns of Interaction."
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Mlk: The Lost Tapes
The African-American and Jewish communities struggled together during the Civil Rights movement. Here is an in-depth look at Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech at the Temple Israel of Hollywood, which provides clips of the speech and...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Supreme Court and School Diversity
The emotionally-charged issues of race, affirmative action, school diversity, and segregation are explored in response to a Supreme Court case involving K-12 schools. Listen to arguments for and against "racial quotas" in public schools.
Other
Reading Through History: Brown v. the Board of Education
This video gives a brief description of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. the Board of Education. [4:16]
Crash Course
Crash Course Sociology #35: Racial/ethnic Prejudice and Discrimination
We can't talk about race without also discussing racism, so today we are going to define and explain prejudice, stereotypes, and racism. We'll look at five theories for why prejudice exists. We'll discuss discrimination and the legacies...
University of California
University of California Television: Improving Race Relations
A televised interview with author John Perkins as he shares both personal and national work towards racial justice. [57:29]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: The Origins of Jim Crow Introduction
Who or what was Jim Crow? Kim discusses the origin of Jim Crow segregation in the American South. [6:33]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Compromise of 1877 Plessy v. Ferguson
Federal troops left the South after the Compromise of 1877, ending Reconstruction. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. [7:58]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
During Reconstruction, federal troops attempted to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in the South. [4:00]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Residential Segregation
This video lesson discusses residential segregation, one type of social inequality. This video lesson was developed in collaboration with the Association of American Medical Colleges and Khan Academy.
iCivics
I Civics: The Naacp Legal Defense Fund
While people protest in the streets, the Legal Defense Fund fights for them in the courts, challenging discriminatory laws in every aspect of life. [1:56]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Inequalities in Patterns of Interaction: Lesson 4
This lesson will define miscegenation, pluralism, assimilation, segregation, genocide, and apartheid. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Inequalities in Patterns of Interaction."
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Dies
NPR pays a moving tribute to the "mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks, who died at the age of 92 on October 24, 2005. Listen to her interviews and hear in her own words her views on the 1955 bus boycott. Links to related...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: 1964: "The Importance of the Civil Rights Act"
Learn about the impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, often considered one of the most influential laws in U.S. history, that created a new America.