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Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
African American Daily Conditions These photos depict typical daily activities of African Americans before the Civil Rights era.	6-12	Flash Image
African American Daily Life These photos depict typical daily activities of African Americans before the Civil Rights era.	K-5	Flash Image
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Scrapbook These materials document the goals and activities of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.	6-12	PDF Document
Audrey Hendricks In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Audrey Hendricks recalls her arrest and jailing at the age of nine for participation in the Children's Crusade of 1963.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Bayard Rustin This transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize documents the leadership strategies of March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin.	9-12	PDF Document
Bayard Rustin: A Freedom Budget, Part 1 This audio excerpt captures the beginning of Bayard Rustin's 1967 "Freedom Budget" speech, describing the social and economic impact of racism over time.	9-12	QuickTime Audio
Bayard Rustin: A Freedom Budget, Part 2 This audio excerpt from Bayard Rustin's 1967 "Freedom Budget" speech outlines a nine-year plan to end poverty in America.	9-12	QuickTime Audio
Boston Desegregation This excerpt from WGBH's Evening Compass news program summarizes events of the first year of the 1974 Boston school desegregation plan.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Brown: A Landmark Case This video segment describes the players and events of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and how it galvanized the Civil Rights movement as well as white resistance.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Burke Marshall Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall, in this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, remembers mediating the 1962 desegregation of the University of Mississippi.	9-12	PDF Document
Bus to the Burbs This video excerpt from La Plaza: "Bus to the Burbs" looks at METCO, a voluntary busing program in Boston.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Campaigns for Economic Freedom This lesson plan explores the economic impact of racial discrimination and campaigns for jobs and justice.	9-12	Lesson Plan
The Civil Rights Movement in America, 1945-1975 This interactive timeline provides a chronological and geographic view of the events of the Civil Rights era and its aftermath.	K-12	Flash Interactive
A Class Divided 1: The Daring Lesson This segment from FRONTLINE: "A Class Divided" profiles an experiment in discrimination based on eye color that took place in a third-grade class in 1970.	3-12	Real Video
A Class Divided 2: Day Two This segment from FRONTLINE: "A Class Divided" profiles the second day of an experiment in discrimination based on eye color that took place in a third-grade class in 1970.	3-12	Real Video
A Class Divided 3: An Interview with Jane Elliott In this Web-exclusive interview for FRONTLINE, Jane Elliott discusses her abiding sense that her lesson on bigotry is as necessary today as it was in 1968.	6-12	HTML Document
Colonel Stone Johnson In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Colonel Stone Johnson describes how civil rights activists were physically attacked for their work.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Concerned White Citizens of Alabama Scrapbook These materials document the philosophy and activities of the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama, who fought for racial equality and voting rights for African Americans; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.	6-12	PDF Document
Constance Baker Motley In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Justice Constance Baker Motley recalls her role as an NAACP attorney in landmark school desegregation cases.	9-12	PDF Document
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.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Decision in the Streets This video segment, adapted from Decision in the Streets by civil rights filmmaker Harvey Richards, portrays the interracial protests that took place in San Francisco in 1963-64.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Desegregation in San Francisco This audio excerpt from National Public Radio's All Things Considered examines policies designed to achieve racial diversity in San Francisco's schools and their impact on Chinese Americans.	6-12	Real Audio
Desegregation Mandate: Jefferson County, AL A 1967 federal court order resulted in this document, which mandated school desegregation in Birmingham.	6-12	PDF Document
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.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Documenting Brown 1: The Fourteenth Amendment The Fourteenth Amendment established the equal protection clause, later used in key desegregation cases.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 2: Plessy v. Ferguson The Supreme Court's 1896 ruling legalized the "separate but equal" doctrine that sanctioned segregation.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 3: Gong Lum v. Rice The Supreme Court's 1927 opinion in Gong Lum v. Rice affirmed legalized school segregation.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 4: Mendez v. Westminster This 1946 federal court ruling marked a victory for Mexican Americans and chipped away at the "separate but equal" doctrine, declaring segregated schools based on national origin unconstitutional.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 5: Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 The Supreme Court's landmark opinion overturned its earlier ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and declared segregated schools unconstitutional.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 6: Brown v. Board of Education, 1955 The Supreme Court's opinion in Brown II reflects the struggle between federal and state governments on how and when school desegregation would occur.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown 7: Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped enforce the Brown ruling, a decade later.	6-12	PDF Document
Documenting Brown: Collected Excerpts This collection of excerpts from legislation and court decisions documents key phases of the legal struggle to gain and implement equal education.	6-12	PDF Document
Eileen Kelley Walbert Eileen Walbert was among the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama who took a stand for civil rights, as she describes in this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Eleventh Commandment Flyer This flyer from the 1962 Birmingham selective buying campaign encourages African Americans to boycott discriminatory businesses; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.	6-12	PDF Document
Excerpts from the March on Washington, Part 1 This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, captures the voices of several civil rights leaders.	6-12	QuickTime Audio
Excerpts from the March on Washington, Part 2 This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, pays tribute to the women -- both leaders and widows of slain leaders -- of the Civil Rights movement.	6-12	QuickTime Audio
Excerpts from the March on Washington, Part 3 Recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, this audio segment captures the voice of SNCC leader John Lewis.	6-12	QuickTime Audio
Fannie Lou Hamer This video segment profiles the life and leadership of Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist best known for her stirring testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Harry Briggs, Sr. and Eliza Briggs In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Harry and Eliza Briggs describe their experience in the first school desegregation case, Briggs v. Elliott.	6-12	PDF Document
Hyde County School Boycott This slide show tells the story of a yearlong boycott to protest the closing of historically black schools in Hyde County, North Carolina.	3-12	Flash Image
Brown Reactions: Black Educators This 1954 statement, issued by a group of black educators, strongly endorses the Supreme Court's Brown ruling.	6-12	PDF Document
Brown Reactions: Editorials This sampling of newspaper editorials from the mid-1950s reflects the range of public opinion and responses to the Brown decision.	6-12	PDF Document
Brown Reactions: Judge Brady This 1954 statement from Tom Brady, a founder of the White Citizens' Council movement, expresses opposition to the Brown decision.	6-12	PDF Document
Ike and Little Rock This video segment, adapted from American Experience: "Ike", profiles the president's controversial response to the Little Rock school desegregation crisis in 1957.	6-12	QuickTime Video
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: Para Todos los Niños/For All the Children, from KOCE-TV.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Implementing Brown Point/counterpoint commentary on the president's actions after the Brown ruling; from American Experience: "Eisenhower."	6-12	QuickTime Video
James Farmer and the Freedom Rides In this video interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Freedom Ride organizer James Farmer describes the interracial bus rides through the South that tested desegregation and sparked white resistance.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Jim Zwerg In this interview transcript from People's Century, northern civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Jim Zwerg describes his experiences.	6-12	HTML Document
Joe Dickson In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Joe Dickson recalls student activism at Miles College.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Kenneth Clark In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, psychologist Kenneth Clark describes his research that illustrated the impact of racism on African American children.	9-12	PDF Document
Ku Klux Klan Flyers This flyer advertises a 1963 white supremacist Ku Klux Klan meeting; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.	6-12	PDF Document
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) In this transcript of an interview recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Stokely Carmichael describes SNCC organizing campaigns and his views on "Black Power."	9-12	PDF Document
Little Rock Nine This collection of photos shows scenes from the controversial desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.	6-12	Flash Image
Lola Hendricks In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Lola Hendricks describes her work behind the scenes to advance the Civil Rights movement.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Malcolm X: Black Nationalism In this archival news footage, civil rights leader Malcolm X describes the political, economic, and social aspects of black nationalism.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Malcolm X: Regarding Whiteness In this interview, taken from archival news footage, civil rights leader Malcolm X describes the impact of his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca on his racial views.	6-8	QuickTime Video
March on Washington Flyers These 1963 flyers announce the speakers and issues for the March on Washington; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.	3-12	PDF Document
Melba Pattillo Beals Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black students who desegregated Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Beals describes her tumultuous experience.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Miriam McClendon In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Miriam McClendon recalls her arrest and jailing for participation in the Children's Crusade of 1963.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Movement Music Medley This collection of songs and images highlights the role of music in the Civil Rights movement.	K-12	QuickTime Video
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.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Reconsidering Brown In these video segments, leading historians and legal scholars reflect on the promise of the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, and why it remains unfulfilled.	9-12	HTML Document
Reconstruction and Black Education This mini-documentary from the American Experience: "Reconstruction" Web site follows post-Civil War development of public education for African Americans in the South and the resistance it sparked.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Re-Examining Brown This lesson explores the historical complexity of the struggle to desegregate schools, the geographic scope of racism, conditions that prompted activism and litigation, and how laws have changed over time.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Rev. C. T. Vivian In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, the Reverend C. T. Vivian remembers his leadership role in the Civil Rights Movement and the risks civil rights activists took in challenging segregation.	6-12	PDF Document
Rev. Frank Dukes: Selective Buying Campaign In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Frank Dukes describes his role in the 1962 boycott of discriminatory stores and businesses.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth This oral history transcript from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute documents the tumultuous life and leadership of the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who survived a bomb attack that destroyed his home.	6-12	PDF Document
The Road to Brown This video segment looks at history of the NAACP's efforts to convince the Supreme Court that segregated schools were unconstitutional, leading up to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education cases.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Robert Moses In this video segment, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, activist Robert Moses talks about the Mississippi voting rights campaign.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Rosa Parks In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks recalls her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.	3-12	QuickTime Video
SCLC's Chicago Plan This excerpt from SCLC's 1966 plan for a campaign in Chicago documents the conditions of urban poverty.	6-12	PDF Document
Segregated Schooling in Alabama This scrapbook documents conditions in Birmingham's segregated schools in 1963, as well as white resistance to integration.	3-5	PDF Image
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.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Segregation Ordinances: Birmingham, AL This document from 1951 spells out Birmingham's segregation ordinances, the laws requiring the separation of the races.	6-12	PDF Document
Sheyann Webb Sheyann Webb was eight years old in 1965 when she marched for voting rights. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, she recalls the events of the Selma march.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 1: A Handful of Lawyers This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" profiles Charles Houston's strategy for attacking segregation and how he trained the legal team that eventually argued the Brown case.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 2: Social Science Evidence This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" documents Dr. Kenneth Clark's "doll test," which became important social science evidence in the Brown case.	6-12	QuickTime Video
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.	6-12	QuickTime Video
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.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 5: Marshall's Closing Statement This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" reenacts Thurgood Marshall's closing statement in Brown v. Board of Education.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Simple Justice 6: Justice Warren Reads the Decision This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the dynamics and arguments among the Supreme Court justices who ruled in Brown v. Board of Education.	6-12	QuickTime Video

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Subtopic: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties