Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
Series of scholarly video clips traces the history of the black freedom struggle from Reconstruction through the 1960s. Videos accompany readings and activities.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Segregated Schooling in South Carolina
In this video segment, produced for the Levine Museum of the New South, Joseph De Laine Jr. and Ophelia De Laine Gona describe conditions in segregated South Carolina schools in 1950. [2:47]
Other
National Visionary Leadership Project: Civil Rights Unit
Organization provides a comprehensive website on the Civil Rights Movement complete with background information, video clips, speeches and documents, images, timeline, primary resources,and a series of lesson plans.
Other
The University of Southern Mississippi: Oral History Collection
The Oral History Digital Collection contains a selection of interview transcripts produced by the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at The University of Southern Mississippi. Most of the interviews center around the Civil...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Preaching the Gospel of the Revolution: American Masters
James Baldwin was living in France in 1957 when he heard about Dorothy Counts, a black American teenager who was spat on after enrolling at an all-white North Carolina high school. He immediately vowed to return to the United States to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: All Men Are Brothers: American Masters
This video [3:38] segment from American Masters' James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket illustrates the activist's intolerance for violence or racial hatred expressed by anyone, black or white. In the mid-1960s, Baldwin's principles put...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: People Get Ready, Making of African American Identity: V. 3
This resource describes popular anthem that expresses the early hopes of the civil rights movement by Curtis Mayfield. It explores the obstacles the civil rights movement had to overcome and the movement's affect on the lives of African...
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 10: Preparation and Education
Today we examine the importance of preparation and education in the civil rights movement. This episode originally aired in November 2011.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 22:civil Rights Movement After m.l. King Jr.
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.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics:the Civil Rights Movement
Brown v. Board of Education was a turning point in the fight against demonstration, but the struggle against inequality had just begun.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 1705: The Civil Rights Movement
The years 1963-64 were exciting years for the civil rights movement. Find out why on today's episode.
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.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 225: Civil Rights Movement Part 4
On today's episode, we discuss how racial segregation and discrimination was deeply entrenched in American life in the 1950s.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 226: Civil Rights Movement Part 5
Today we discuss how the increase in racially motivated violence in the 1950s prompted federal intervention.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 227: Civil Rights Movement Part 6
Today we discuss the origins of the American civil rights movement.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 228: Civil Rights Movement Part 7
On today's episode, we discuss the importance of nonviolence in the civil rights movement.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 233: Nonviolence Seeks Reconciliation
Today we discuss Martin Luther King Jr.'s second principle of nonviolence: nonviolence seeks reconciliation.
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History #39: Civil Rights and the 1950s
Crash Course U.S. History video in which John Green sets the stage for the birth of the Civil Rights Movement by discussing life and culture in the 1950s and the apparent existing inequalities. [11:58]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Collections: Civil Rights: Then and Now
While students today may think of the Civil Rights Movement as part of the distant past, it's clear that many of the problems that fueled that fight are still with us. This collection of videos, documents, and primary sources lends...