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Barbara Johns of Farmville, Virginia
In this video from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, learn about 16-year old Barbara Johns, a high school student who, in 1951, organized a student walk-out to protest inferior educational conditions at Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
Charles Hamilton Houston and His Legal Challenge Against Jim Crow
This video fromThe Rise and Fall of Jim Crow profiles Charles Hamilton Houston, the chief council for the NAACP, and his legal challenge against Jim Crow. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
The Exchange StudentThis video segment from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes the experience of Jim Zwerg, a white college student who was among the Freedom Riders seeking to end illegal discrimination against African Americans during the civil rights era. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Freedom Riders Challenge SegregationThis video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes how a group of black and white Americans planned to challenge illegal racial segregation by riding buses across Southern states. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Freedom Riders Create ChangeThis video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" highlights the impact of the 1961 Freedom Rides on the efforts to end racial segregation and discrimination in the United States. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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Fresh TroopsThis video segment from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes how the Nashville student movement trained future Freedom Riders in nonviolence, and why these students were so essential in sustaining the Freedom Rides. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Gideon v. WainwrightLearn how the case of Gideon v. Wainwright brought about sweeping change in the American justice system in this video segment from The Supreme Court. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
The GovernorThis video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes Alabama Governor John Patterson's refusal to ensure the safety of the Freedom Riders, despite the efforts of President Kennedy and other federal officials. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Griswold v. Connecticut The “right to privacy” as a legal issue is the topic of this video segment from The Supreme Court. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
The InspirationThis video segment from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes the influence of India's Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent tactics on the struggle to end illegal discrimination against African Americans in the United States. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Miranda v. Arizona In this video from The Supreme Court, learn about the Court's sweeping decision in response to police brutality and terror tactics. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
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Moving to Oak Park This video segment, adapted from NOVA, shows the racial violence sparked when the African American chemist Percy Julian and his family moved into an exclusive
Chicago suburb in 1950.
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6-12 |
Video |
The Murder of Emmett TillThis video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE tells the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy whose brutal murder helped spark the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Reaction to the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968In this April 1968 archival news footage from the Boston Public Library, citizens at a public rally in Boston, Massachusetts, respond to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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The Student LeaderThis video segment from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" profiles one of the African American student leaders who employed nonviolent direct action in the early 1960s to challenge illegal racial segregation both on her own college campus and nationally. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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The TacticThis video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes the adoption of nonviolent direct action as the critical tactic in challenging illegal racial segregation in the Southern United States in the early 1960s. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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The Truman Administration and The Seeds of ChangeThis video from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow highlights President Truman’s outrage at the treatment of Black service men following World War II and his pledge of federal support for civil rights.
Accessibility features: Transcript |
7-12 |
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Why We Fight This video from the series The Supreme Court explains how World War II changed American ideas about democracy and liberty. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
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The Young WitnessThis video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes the response of a young Alabama girl who witnessed an attack on the Freedom Riders. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
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