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People and Communities: White Resistance

Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. 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
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
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
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