Wonderscape
Claudette Colvin and Ruby Bridges: Young Leaders of Change
Discover the courage of Claudette Colvin and Ruby Bridges, two young girls who stood against segregation. Learn how their actions during the Civil Rights era helped pave the way for school desegregation and inspired a movement for...
Wonderscape
Brown vs. Board of Education and School Desegregation
This video discusses the landmark case Brown vs. Board of Education and its impact on desegregating American schools. It highlights Linda Brown's story in Topeka, Kansas, the legal battle led by Thurgood Marshall, and the resistance to...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Vanessa Siddle Walker - School Integration
Vanessa Siddle Walker is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies (B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.Ed Harvard University; Ed. D Harvard University). For 25 years, she has explored the...
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]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 4: Arguing the Fourteenth Amendment
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the issue at the heart of Brown v. Board of Education: whether the Fourteenth Amendment applied to segregated schools. [5:50]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 3: The Trial Begins
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" captures the legal issues and opening arguments in Brown v. Board of Education. [6:44]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Country Preacher: Rev. De Laine
In this video segment produced for the Levine Museum of the New South, the Reverend Joseph De Laine's son and daughter describe his role in the first public school desegregation lawsuit. [2:36]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Mendez v Westminster, Desegregating California's Schools
Sylvia Mendez recalls the conditions that led Mexican Americans to sue for desegregation in the 1940s in this segment from Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children, from KOCE-TV. [8:37]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 7: State Resistance to Desegregation
Today we discuss backlash against desegregation in the South. This episode originally aired in November 2011.
iCivics
I Civics: Students and the Struggle for School Integration
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...