Professor Dave Explains
Dwight Eisenhower: I Like Ike (1953 – 1961)
Dwight Eisenhower was the first military hero to become president since Ulysses Grant nearly a century earlier. But the post WWII era was much different from the post Civil War era. The military-industrial complex was taking shape, and...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Did You Know? Jim Crow Law
Overview of the history of Jim Crow laws, which discriminated against African Americans and enforced racial segregation between whites and Blacks.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Reconstruction Explained in 5 Questions
Learn more about the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War.
Red Rock Films
Who was Jim Crow?
How one white actor's creation came to represent the most racist laws in America - and how those laws were crushed.
Hip Hughes History
Jim Crow and America's Racism Explained
A social studies based video lecturing outlining the major concepts regarding Jim Crow. If there was a prerequisite it would include having a grip on the 14th amendment.
Mr. Beat
Brown v. Board of Education
Reading Through History: The Great Supreme Court Cases
Topeka, KS
1950
Schools were segregated by skin color. Each day, 8-year old Linda Brown and her sister had to walk one mile, crossing several busy railroad tracks along the way, to...
Red Rock Films
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
How nine students going to a new school became a national crisis, commanded military intervention and became the focus of international attention.
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Gilded Age - Politics
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Gilded Age uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of...
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Gilded Age - The Birth Of The Populist Party
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Gilded Age uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of...
60 Second Histories
Rosa Parks: segregation
In the first of 3 clips, Rosa Parks explains what segregation was like for her.
60 Second Histories
Rosa Parks: Montgomery bus boycott
In the last of 3 clips, Rosa Parks explains how her protest and arrest prompted the Montgomery bus boycott which lasted for 381 days.
Mazz Media
Standing Up For Freedom: The Story of Rosa Parks
In December of 1955 Rosa Parks made history when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. Her act of defiance was the catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott which was the spark that ignited the modern-day Civil...
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Progressive Era - African Americans In The Progressive Era
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Progressive Era uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era...
Mazz Media
Standing Up For Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement in America
From the fight to abolish slavery in the 1800s to the efforts to stop segregation in the 1900s, this program chronicles the civil rights movement in America. Students will learn about the courageous leaders of the Abolitionist Movement...
Getty Images
Racial segregation ends at University of Alabama
Racial segregation ends at University of Alabama
Getty Images
Integration in US Schools
African-American children and teenagers walking to school bus in rural area; black children boarding bus / African-American schoolchildren riding bus, singing and smiling; CU elderly white male bus driver / black kids sitting and...
Getty Images
HD: Young Man Suffering From Emotional Stress
HD1080p: Young man trying to pull himself together while sitting all alone outdoors on the bench and suffering from emotional stress.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower vows to end segregation in the federal government and military during his 1953 State of the Union address
VS President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers State of The Union address from podium in the well of the US House of Representatives chamber; behind him sit Vice President Richard Nixon and Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R-MA);...
Hearst Metrotone News
Young African American girls exit a high school building.
Young African American girls exit a high school building.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
New Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin takes oath of office
Title: "Griffin Takes Oath of Office" superimposed over Georgia Gov. Marvin Griffin at desk / MS outgoing Gov. Herman Talmadge shakes hands with Griffin in office / CU Talmadge grinning / Pan to Griffin standing in front of closed blinds...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Bill Robinson, Fredi Washington and other stars at opening gala of RKO Roosevelt Theater in Harlem, probably 1937
Title card: "Harlem's Roosevelt Theater" / VS street scenes, rows of 6 and 7 story apartment bldgs, shops on ground floors, awnings over apartment windows, cars parked on street, pedestrians, children playing / swimming pool, black...