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Burke MarshallAssistant 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 |
Document |
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 |
The Exchange StudentThis video segment from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes the experience of Jim Zwerg, a white college student who was among the Freedom Riders seeking to end illegal discrimination against African Americans during the civil rights era. |
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 |
The GovernorThis video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes Alabama Governor John Patterson's refusal to ensure the safety of the Freedom Riders, despite the efforts of President Kennedy and other federal officials. |
6-12 |
Video |
Harry Briggs, Sr. and Eliza BriggsIn 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 |
Document |
Brown Reactions: Judge BradyThis 1954 statement from Tom Brady, a founder of the White Citizens' Council movement, expresses opposition to the Brown decision. |
6-12 |
Document |
Ike and Little RockThis video segment, adapted from American Experience: "Ike", profiles the president's controversial response to the Little Rock school desegregation crisis in 1957. |
6-12 |
Video |
Implementing BrownPoint/counterpoint commentary on the president's actions after the Brown ruling; from American Experience: "Eisenhower." |
6-12 |
Video |
James Farmer and the Freedom RidesIn 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 |
Video |
Jim ZwergIn this interview transcript from People's Century, northern civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Jim Zwerg describes his experiences. |
6-12 |
Document |
Ku Klux Klan FlyersThis flyer advertises a 1963 white supremacist Ku Klux Klan meeting; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. |
6-12 |
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 |
Document |
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 |
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 |
Rev. C. T. VivianIn 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 |
Document |
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 |
Segregation Ordinances: Birmingham, ALThis document from 1951 spells out Birmingham's segregation ordinances, the laws requiring the separation of the races. |
6-12 |
Document |
Understanding White SupremacyThis 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 ResistanceCivil rights activism sparked social and political change, but it also amplified white resistance to racial equality, as this video segment illustrates. |
6-12 |
Video |
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 |
