Subtopic: Decade of Change: 1960s

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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
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 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
Gideon v. Wainwright Learn how the case of Gideon v. Wainwright brought about sweeping change in the American justice system in this video segment from The Supreme Court.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Griswold v. Connecticut The “right to privacy” as a legal issue is the topic of this video segment from The Supreme Court.	9-12	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
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
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
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
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.	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
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
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
Roe v. Wade In this video from The Supreme Court, learn about the Court's sweeping decision in response to police brutality and terror tactics.	9-12	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
Sonia Sanchez: "Malcolm" In this video segment, poet Sonia Sanchez recites her poem "Malcolm," as a eulogy to the slain civil rights leader, Malcolm X. Recorded for Eyes on the Prize.	9-12	QuickTime Video
Sonia Sanchez: Meeting Malcolm X In this video segment, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, poet Sonia Sanchez recalls the pivotal moment when she first heard civil rights leader Malcolm X speak.	9-12	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
The Importance of Precedent in the Decisons of the Supreme Court In this lesson based on the series The Supreme Court, students define the terms "precedent" and "stare decisis".	9-12	Lesson Plan
Understanding and Applying the Miranda Decision In this lesson students learn about the landmark Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona (1966) and apply the principles of Miranda to subsequent cases.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Understanding White Supremacy This lesson plan explores how white southerners tried to protect their economic, political, and social privilege in the face of the Civil Rights movement.	9-12	Lesson Plan
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
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

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Subtopic: Decade of Change: 1960s