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The March on Washington and Dr. King’s "I Have a Dream" Speech
This video covers the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Learn about the peaceful protests, including sit-ins and marches, that led up...
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History Kids: Segregation to Integration and Civil Rights
This video provides a historical overview of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, highlighting key events and figures that shaped the fight for equal rights. It explores the struggles faced by black Americans during the era of...
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SYND 21/4/70 STUDENTS CLASH WITH POLICE AND OCCUPY ASSEMBLY BUILDING IN PROTEST AT THE TRIAL OF A STUDENT ON COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES CHARGE
Students stage a sit-in in protest at the trial of a fellow student on cummunism charges.
1. VS of the students with banners staging the sit-in outside the assembly building
2. MS of riot police on standby
3. VS of the police clashing...
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SYND 12-4-69 HARVARD STUDENTS BOYCOTT CLASSES AS A PROTEST AT POLICE INTERVENTION IN A RECENT SIT-IN
Harvard students boycott classes in protest at the police intervention in a previous sit-in.
1. GV Harvard Memorial Hall with students marching in circles with placards
2. MCU of the students with placards
3. MCU of the students writing...
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WRAP World reax to Gaza crisis, UN Observer calls emergency meeting
New York
1. Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, coming to microphones
2. Reporter asking question
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations:
"This form...
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INDONESIA: JAKARTA: STUDENT PROTESTORS CAUSE TRAFFIC CHAOS
Natural Sound
Thousands of chanting student protestors in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta held up traffic and jostled with armed police on Wednesday in the largest show of unity yet against the government's handling of the country's...
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Rector of university polytechnic about violent protests
8 January 2009
1. Wide exterior of damaged building housing university library within grounds of Athens Polytechnic
2. Close up of graffiti on marble showing obscenities against police and anarchist symbol ++EXPLICIT LANGUAGE++
3. Mid...
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Pbs Learning Media: Diane Nash and the Sit Ins
Diane Nash was a college student when she started leading sit-in demonstrations to protest discrimination. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Nash describes her role in the Civil Rights movement. [5:59]
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Object of History: From Segregation to Sit In
Detailed written overview with accompanying audio of the Greensboro, NC sit-in at an F.W. Woolworth store that sparked the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s. Explore how lunch counters played a vital role in urban America, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The 1960s in America
In which John Green teaches you about a time of relative tumult in the United States, the 1960s. America was changing rapidly in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of those changes. Civil Rights were dominant, but the...