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Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Scrapbook

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

Document

Bus to the Burbs

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

Video

The Civil Rights Movement in America, 1945-1975

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

Interactive

Colonel Stone Johnson

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

Video

Concerned White Citizens of Alabama Scrapbook

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

Document

Decision in the Streets

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

Video

Desegregation in San Francisco

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

Audio

Diane Nash and the Sit-Ins

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

Video

Eileen Kelley Walbert

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

Video

Eleventh Commandment Flyer

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

Document

Environmental Justice in Dallas

Environmental Justice in Dallas

Follow 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." OER Level

6-12

Video

Freedom Riders Create Change

Freedom Riders Create Change

This 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. OER Level

6-12

Video

Fresh Troops

Fresh Troops

This 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. OER Level

6-12

Video

Hyde County School Boycott

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

Image

<i>Mendez v. Westminster</i>: Desegregating California's Schools

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

Video

The Inspiration

The Inspiration

This 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. OER Level

6-12

Video

Joe Dickson

Joe Dickson

In this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Joe Dickson recalls student activism at Miles College.

6-12

Video

Little Rock Nine

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

Image

Lola Hendricks

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

Video

Miriam McClendon

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

Video

Moving to Oak Park

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. OER Level

6-12

Video

Reconstruction and Black Education

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

Video

Rev. Frank Dukes: Selective Buying Campaign

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

Video

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

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

Document

Robert Moses

Robert Moses

In this video segment, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, activist Robert Moses talks about the Mississippi voting rights campaign.

9-12

Video

Rosa Parks

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

Video

SCLC's Chicago Plan

SCLC's Chicago Plan

This excerpt from SCLC's 1966 plan for a campaign in Chicago documents the conditions of urban poverty.

6-12

Document

The Student Leader

The Student Leader

This 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. OER Level

6-12

Video

The Tactic

The Tactic

This 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. OER Level

6-12

Video

Taking a Stand

Taking a Stand

This 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 Witness

The Young Witness

This video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes the response of a young Alabama girl who witnessed an attack on the Freedom Riders. OER Level

6-12

Video