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Bayard Rustin: A Freedom Budget, Part 2This audio excerpt from Bayard Rustin's 1967 "Freedom Budget" speech outlines a nine-year plan to end poverty in America. |
9-12 |
Audio |
Brown: A Landmark CaseThis video segment describes the players and events of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and how it galvanized the Civil Rights movement as well as white resistance. |
6-12 |
Video |
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 |
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 |
Constance Baker MotleyIn 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 |
Document |
Documenting Brown 1: The Fourteenth AmendmentThe Fourteenth Amendment established the equal protection clause, later used in key desegregation cases. |
6-12 |
Document |
Documenting Brown 2: Plessy v. FergusonThe Supreme Court's 1896 ruling legalized the "separate but equal" doctrine that sanctioned segregation. |
6-12 |
Document |
Documenting Brown 3: Gong Lum v. RiceThe Supreme Court's 1927 opinion in Gong Lum v. Rice affirmed legalized school segregation. |
6-12 |
Document |
Documenting Brown 4: Mendez v. WestminsterThis 1946 federal court ruling marked a victory for Mexican Americans and chipped away at the "separate but equal" doctrine, declaring segregated schools based on national origin unconstitutional. |
6-12 |
Document |
Documenting Brown 5: Brown v. Board of Education, 1954The Supreme Court's landmark opinion overturned its earlier ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and declared segregated schools unconstitutional. |
6-12 |
Document |
Documenting Brown 6: Brown v. Board of Education, 1955The Supreme Court's opinion in Brown II reflects the struggle between federal and state governments on how and when school desegregation would occur. |
6-12 |
Document |
Documenting Brown 7: Civil Rights Act of 1964The Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped enforce the Brown ruling, a decade later. |
6-12 |
Document |
Documenting Brown: Collected ExcerptsThis collection of excerpts from legislation and court decisions documents key phases of the legal struggle to gain and implement equal education. |
6-12 |
Document |
Freedom Riders Challenge SegregationThis video segment adapted from American Experience: "Freedom Riders" describes how a group of black and white Americans planned to challenge illegal racial segregation by riding buses across Southern states. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Implementing BrownPoint/counterpoint commentary on the president's actions after the Brown ruling; from American Experience: "Eisenhower." |
6-12 |
Video |
The Road to BrownThis video segment looks at the history of the NAACP's efforts to convince the Supreme Court that segregated schools were unconstitutional, leading up to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education cases. |
9-12 |
Video |
Simple Justice 1: A Handful of LawyersThis segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" profiles Charles Houston's strategy for attacking segregation and how he trained the legal team that eventually argued the Brown case. |
6-12 |
Video |
Simple Justice 2: Social Science EvidenceThis segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" documents Dr. Kenneth Clark's "doll test," which became important social science evidence in the Brown case. |
6-12 |
Video |
Simple Justice 3: The Trial BeginsThis segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" captures the legal issues and opening arguments in Brown v. Board of Education. |
6-12 |
Video |
Simple Justice 4: Arguing the Fourteenth AmendmentThis segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the issue at the heart of Brown v. Board of Education: whether the Fourteenth Amendment applied to segregated schools. |
6-12 |
Video |
Simple Justice 5: Marshall's Closing StatementThis segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" reenacts Thurgood Marshall's closing statement in Brown v. Board of Education. |
6-12 |
Video |
Simple Justice 6: Justice Warren Reads the DecisionThis segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the dynamics and arguments among the Supreme Court justices who ruled in Brown v. Board of Education. |
6-12 |
Video |
Strategies for an Equal EducationStudents examine the inequality in education faced by African Americans in the 20th century. They review the Fourteenth Amendment, identify and examine strategies used to overcome discrimination, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each. |
6-12 |
Lesson Plan |
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 |
