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Bayard RustinThis transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize documents the leadership strategies of March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin. |
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 |
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 |
Fannie Lou HamerThis video segment profiles the life and leadership of Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist best known for her stirring testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. |
6-12 |
Video |
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 |
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 |
Robert MosesIn this video segment, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, activist Robert Moses talks about the Mississippi voting rights campaign. |
9-12 |
Video |
Sheyann WebbSheyann Webb was eight years old in 1965 when she marched for voting rights. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, she recalls the events of the Selma march. |
3-12 |
Video |
Voter Registration Training ToolStudents at Miles College in Birmingham developed this "crib sheet" and questionnaire to help black citizens become registered voters and to document racial discrimination in the voting process in the 1950s. |
6-12 |
Document |