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The Civil Rights Cases This video from the series The Supreme Court details both the Court’s contribution to the end of Reconstruction and its first major dissent. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
A Colony of AliensIn this video segment from Faces of America, learn about Benjamin Franklin’s objection to German immigrants in colonial Pennsylvania. Accessibility features: Transcript |
7-12 |
Video |
A Community of People Now In this video segment from the documentary American Masters: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man, Bill T. Jones struggles to find meaning and relevancy for the life of Abraham Lincoln in today’s social and political landscape. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
The Crisis: A Weapon Against Jim Crow Learn about W.E.B. Du Bois’ crusade against American segregation and discrimination in this segment from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
The Dickerson Case Against expectation, Justice William Rehnquist upholds the Miranda warnings in the case of Dickerson v. The United States in this video from the PBS series The Supreme Court. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
The Double VIn this video segment from Soldiers Without Swords, learn about the "Double V" campaign launched by the black press during World War II to empower African-Americans at home and abroad on the war front. Accessibility features: Transcript |
6-12 |
Video |
Drawing the lines: Parties fight for redistricting power
In this video adapted from Need to Know, students learn about redistricting and the impact it has on elections, and democracy, in America.
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9-12 |
Video |
Edisto Island
In this video segment from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, freedmen on Edisto Island receive the news that their land will be taken away.
Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
Exploring Religious AmericaIn this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, learn about Muslims in Lawrenceville, Georgia, their plans to build an Islamic cemetery and the stiff objections from their Christian neighbors. |
5-12 |
Video |
FDR and the Court In this video from The Supreme Court, the Court reverses its practice of protectionism for big business to protect the worker. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
Finding Their VoiceAfrican Americans in the 1920's had a new attitude. In this video segment from A Walk Through Harlem, learn about the Harlem Renaissance. Accessibility features: Transcript |
6-12 |
Video |
The Fourteenth Amendment - Part I This video segment from The Supreme Court introduces viewers to the Fourteenth amendment. Accessibility features: Transcript |
7-12 |
Video |
The Fourteenth Amendment - Part IIIn this video segment from The Supreme Court, learn about the 1883 Supreme Court decision that marked the end of federal protections for individuals in states and the beginning of Jim Crow segregation. Accessibility features: Transcript |
7-12 |
Video |
Getting an Education This video segment, adapted from NOVA, chronicles the education of leading chemist Percy Julian. Although Julian began his elementary school years in the Deep
South under Jim Crow laws, he became one of the few African Americans of his time to earn a Ph.D.
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 |
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 |
Having a Strong National GovernmentIn this video from The Supreme Court, partisan politics influences the development of the United States as a young republic.
Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
Ida B. Wells: A Lifetime of Activism Learn about Ida B. Wells’ life-long fight for African-American civil rights in this segment from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
The Impact of DeportationIn this video excerpt from FRONTLINE: "Lost in Detention," an immigrant family with American-born children copes with the aftermath of the mother's deportation to Mexico because she lacked legal status. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Isaiah Montgomery Founds Mound BayouThis video from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow profiles Isaiah Montgomery who, in 1887, established the all-black town of Mound Bayou in the Mississippi Delta.
Accessibility features: Transcript |
9-12 |
Video |
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