During Reconstruction, federal troops attempted to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in the South. [4:00]

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.

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]

Integration Report 1 is a civil rights documentary covering the year between 1959 and 1960 in Montgomery, Alabama, in Brooklyn, New York, and in Washington, D.C..

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has played a critical role in improving the lives of African Americans in its battle against all types of racial discrimination.

The ideal of equality was stated in the Declaration of Independence. Abolitionists and African Americans used this as an argument against segregation.

On today's episode we examine segregation in the 1950s. This episode originally aired in November 2011.

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...

A televised interview with author John Perkins as he shares both personal and national work towards racial justice. [57:29]

Who or what was Jim Crow? Kim discusses the origin of Jim Crow segregation in the American South. [6:33]

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]

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 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...

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.