After viewing video excerpts from American Experience: The Abolitionist, students will complete a lesson on abolitionism and reflect on the meaning of patriotism and civil rights. [6:55]

Do Americans take their rights more seriously than their responsibilities? We discuss the issue on today's podcast.

It wasn't easy to pass the Fourteenth Amendment. Even the President was against it.

What has Congress done to secure civil rights for Americans? A lot, actually.

The due process and equal protection clauses are considered by many scholars to be the most important clauses in the Constitution. Find out why on today's podcast.

The Supreme Court had an opportunity in 1873 to extend the protections of the federal Bill of Rights to the states. It decided not to.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was held to be unconstitutional and President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed a former Confederate to his cabinet. Clearly, the Reconstruction era was over.

In this episode, we introduce our series on civil rights in the United States.

On today's podcast we learn about the NAACP and other civil rights organizations and examine nonviolent direct action. This podcast originally aired in November 2011.

Today we examine the importance of preparation and education in the civil rights movement. This episode originally aired in November 2011.

On today's podcast, we discuss Rosa Parks, the NAACP, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Montgomery bus boycott. This episode originally aired in November 2011.

On today's episode, we examine the civil rights protests of 1963. This episode originally aired in November 2011.

On today's podcast, we examine the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This episode originally aired in November 2011.

On the podcast today, we discuss how the civil rights movement changed after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. This episode originally aired in November 2011.

On today's episode, we discuss how racial segregation and discrimination was deeply entrenched in American life in the 1950s.

Today we discuss the life of civil rights leader Dorothy Cotton.

On today's episode, we discuss how the movement for civil rights has changed since the mid-twentieth century.

We continue our Black History Month series with a discussion of the agreement to desegregate Birmingham.

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...

This video gives a brief description of the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party. [5:19]

Audio story offers a discussion of a book on baseball legend Jackie Robinson and how he became "a ballplayer with the guts not to fight back."

Before there was Brown v. Board, there was Barbara Johns, a teenager who organized a student walkout for better conditions for her segregated school. Use this new video to discuss the history of school desegregation and the role of young...

This interview covers a timeline that explains American Indian governance and relationship structures based on sacred creation stories. [10:32]

For decades, restrictive covenants prevented people of color from buying a home of their choice... until J.D. and Ethel Shelley challenged them. (1 min,55 sec)