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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
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
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
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
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: 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
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
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
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 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
Sonia Sanchez: The Meaning of Malcolm X Poet Sonia Sanchez, interviewed here for Eyes on the Prize, describes what the outspoken civil rights leader Malcolm X represented to African Americans in the 1960s.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Vanessa Venable In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Vanessa Venable describes the impact of school closings in Prince Edward County, Virginia from 1959-1964.	6-12	PDF Document
Voter Registration Training Tool Students at Miles College in Birmingham developed this "crib sheet" and questionnaire to help black citizens become registered voters and to document racial discrimination in the voting process in the 1950s.	6-12	PDF Document
Voting Rights A news camera captured this video excerpt of a 1965 voting rights demonstration, from People's Century: "Skin Deep".	6-12	QuickTime Video
Washington Booker, III In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Washington Booker recalls being arrested and jailed for participating in the Children's Crusade of 1963.	3-12	QuickTime Video
White Resistance Civil rights activism sparked social and political change, but it also amplified white resistance to racial equality, as this video segment illustrates.	6-12	QuickTime Video