Community Organizing
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Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights ScrapbookThese materials document the goals and activities of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. |
6-12 |
Document |
Bus to the BurbsThis video excerpt from La Plaza: "Bus to the Burbs" looks at METCO, a voluntary busing program in Boston. |
6-12 |
Video |
The Civil Rights Movement in America, 1945-1975This interactive timeline provides a chronological and geographic view of the events of the Civil Rights era and its aftermath. |
K-12 |
Interactive |
Colonel Stone JohnsonIn 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 |
Video |
Concerned White Citizens of Alabama ScrapbookThese 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 |
Document |
Decision in the StreetsThis 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 |
Video |
Desegregation in San FranciscoThis 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 |
Audio |
Diane Nash and the Sit-InsDiane 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 |
Video |
Eileen Kelley WalbertEileen 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 |
Video |
Eleventh Commandment FlyerThis flyer from the 1962 Birmingham selective buying campaign encourages African Americans to boycott discriminatory businesses; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. |
6-12 |
Document |
Environmental Justice in DallasFollow a Dallas community's fight to receive federal Superfund status to clean up the damage from a high-polluting lead smelter, in this video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: "Toxic Racism." |
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. |
6-12 |
Video |
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. |
6-12 |
Video |
Hyde County School BoycottThis slide show tells the story of a yearlong boycott to protest the closing of historically black schools in Hyde County, North Carolina. |
3-12 |
Image |
Mendez v. Westminster: Desegregating California's SchoolsSylvia 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 |
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. |
6-12 |
Video |
Joe DicksonIn this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Joe Dickson recalls student activism at Miles College. |
6-12 |
Video |
Little Rock NineThis collection of photos shows scenes from the controversial desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. |
6-12 |
Image |
Lola HendricksIn 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 |
Video |
Miriam McClendonIn 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 |
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.
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6-12 |
Video |
Reconstruction and Black EducationThis 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 |
Video |
Rev. Frank Dukes: Selective Buying CampaignIn 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 |
Video |
Rev. Fred ShuttlesworthThis 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 |
Document |
Robert MosesIn this video segment, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, activist Robert Moses talks about the Mississippi voting rights campaign. |
9-12 |
Video |
Rosa ParksIn this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks recalls her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
3-12 |
Video |
SCLC's Chicago PlanThis excerpt from SCLC's 1966 plan for a campaign in Chicago documents the conditions of urban poverty. |
6-12 |
Document |
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. |
6-12 |
Video |
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. |
6-12 |
Video |
Taking a StandThis lesson provides an introduction to the discrimination and segregation that triggered the Civil Rights movement, through the eyes of some of the youngest activists at the time. |
3-5 |
Lesson Plan |
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. |
6-12 |
Video |
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