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African-Americans

Black and white image with closeup of a sign that reads, "Civil Rights Plus Full Employment." Crowd of people and protest signs fill the background.
10 Things You Don't Know About
Season 3 / Ep 3
41 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A Black woman wearing a nurse's uniform puts her arm around a Black boy, both smile at the camera.
56 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white photo of Black and White people in a coffee shop, some sitting in chairs and others standing at a lunch counter in the background. Caption. Male as narrator. The idea of the freedom rides was radical.
51 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Color illustration of Ananse. A colorful umbrella shields him from the sun. Caption. All the stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God.
9 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: K - 4
Black and white frame of A. Philip Randolph, a civil-rights activist. Caption. Of a mighty corporation such as the Pullman Company was.
1 hours 27 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white image of Jackie Robinson wearing his Dodgers jersey and sliding on one side towards a base, baseball hat falling to the ground.
20 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Senior Black man wearing glasses, a teal-colored African scarf and head wrap, and a dark suit jacket stands next to an African wall hanging and speaks towards camera.
17 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Faces of influential Black Americans dispersed across frame. February calendar page and map of the U, S in background. Caption. To focus on and learn more about black culture.
All About the Holidays
Episode 54
1 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: All About the Holidays: Black History Month (Spanish)
All About the Holidays
Episode
2 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Closeup of a wooden Kwanzaa kinara with red, green and black candles. Heap of fruits and vegetables fills background.
All About the Holidays
Episode 4
1 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Three side-by-side photos of different spaces, including a park with a walkway, a staircase entrance to a school building, and a small town store. All three images are overlaid with a red circle with a slash through it.
All About the Holidays
Episode
1 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Rendering of Martin Luther King, Jr. standing behind a pulpit in a church setting. Caption. Dr. King spoke out against racial discrimination.
All About the Holidays
Episode 39
1 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Painting with seated, smiling girl and woman hugging her. Caption. Are we going to the ballet, Nana? asked Grandma.
8 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
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Men wear khaki vests labor in an antiquated workshop. Caption. Henry Ford isn't just making a revolutionary car.
America the Story of Us
Season 1 / Ep 8
43 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Closeup of senior man in colonial costume with tricorn hat. Caption. They raid the milita's arms stash.
America the Story of Us
Season 1 / Ep 1
43 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of a person front loading a Civil War-era cannon attached to a wheel. Caption. Without accepting the eager pool of black volunteers.
19 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Teenage girl smiles at camera with a superimposed news background and Presidential crest. Behind her, a screen shows a woman holding a young Barack Obama. Caption. We'd like to share it with you.
16 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: K - 6
Barbara Jordan standing in a room full of Black women. She smiles and looks over at a person extending their hand. Caption. In the United States House of Representatives.
22 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Black Voices
Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi
Season 5 / Ep 1
27 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white illustration of an African tribe speaking with white men wearing tricorn hats in a row boat docked at shore. Caption. One of these travelers.
Black American History
Season 0 / Ep 1
47 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Black and white photo of Black men wearing Civil War-era clothing, hoeing fields alongside Black women and children. Caption. Her skill in speaking impressed many people.
Black American History
Season 0 / Ep 2
48 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Black and white photo of a Black man wearing a surgical cap and mask. Caption. And was a member of the State Board of Health.
Black American History
Season 0 / Ep 3
40 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Black and white photo of nineteen sixties White and Black protesters gathered together in a group and holding signs. Caption. And provoked support of the civil rights movement.
Black American History
Season 0 / Ep 4
44 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Black and white photo of N, B, A player, Bill Russell, blocking another basketball player. Caption. And led the team to the N, B, A championships 11 times.
Black American History
Season 0 / Ep 5
37 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Sepia-toned photo of Booker T. Washington sitting in a chair and looking at us. Text reads, “Booker T. Washington. Educator, Author, Speaker, Advisor.”
Black American World Changers
Episode 3
3 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-toned photo of Frederick Douglass. Text reads, “Frederick Douglass. Abolitionist, Activist, Writer, Speaker.”
Black American World Changers
Episode 1
3 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-toned photo of George Washington Carver looking at us. Text reads, “George Washington Carver. Inventor, Scientist. One of the most prominent black scientists of the twentieth century.”
Black American World Changers
Episode 4
3 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-toned photo of Harriet Tubman on old paper. Text reads, “Harriet Tubman. Abolitionist, Activist.”
Black American World Changers
Episode 2
2 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-toned photo of Jackie Robinson in a Dodgers uniform and holding a baseball as if he is preparing to swing. Text reads, “Jackie Robinson. Hall of Fame baseball player, First Black player in MLB.”
Black American World Changers
Episode 5
4 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-toned photo of Maya Angelou looking at us with her hands folded together under her chin. Text reads, “Maya Angelou. Poet, Writer, Civil Rights Activist.”
Black American World Changers
Episode 6
2 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-toned photo of Rosa Parks on old, worn paper. Text reads, “Rosa Parks. Civil Rights Activist. Her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott was monumental to the Civil Rights Movement.”
Black American History
Season 0 / Ep
2 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Title text reads, “Black Boys,” against a black background.
1 hours 30 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Black Lives Matter: Am I Next?
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Cecil Williams South Carolina Civil Rights Museum
Carolina Snaps
Episode 3
59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Dave the Potter
Carolina Snaps
Episode 6
1 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Dr. Benjamin Mays
Carolina Snaps
Episode 7
59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Modjeska Monteith Simkins
Carolina Snaps
Episode 12
1 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Ronald McNair
Carolina Snaps
Episode 13
59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Septima Poinsette Clark
Carolina Snaps
Episode 14
1 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Celebrate Black Educators: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Celebrate Black Educators: Dreams for the Future
Celebrate Black Educators
Episode 4
3 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Celebrate Black Educators: My Proudest Moment
Celebrate Black Educators
Episode 1
3 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Celebrate Black Educators: Superpowers and Life Lessons
Celebrate Black Educators
Episode 2
3 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Celebrating Black History Month
2 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Black and white photograph of a large group of doctors standing around patient in a hospital bed. Dr. Charles R. Drew (1904-1950) who served as head of the Department of Surgery, reviews patient case Caption: and resident in surgery at Freedmen's Hospital.
The Black American Experience
Season 0 / Ep 6
28 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Charlie's Place: Episode 1
Charlie's Place
Episode 1
7 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Charlie's Place: Episode 2
Charlie's Place
Episode 2
5 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Charlie's Place: Episode 3
Charlie's Place
Episode 3
8 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Charlie's Place: Episode 4
Charlie's Place
Episode 4
5 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of an album spread with handprints above a signature on the left. On the opposite side a photo of a man holding a dog is inscribed, "Chester B. Himes, writer." Caption. Chester Himes fought back with talent.
The Black American Experience
Season 0 / Ep 7
26 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Man resembling M, L, K Jr. seated next to a woman holding an apple. Both are seated on bleachers. Caption. His name is Martin Luther King, Jr.
31 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman at door of a brick building. Caption. So with the 16 Black students and 4 Black teachers, they set up what...
43 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: K - 12
Man touches his hand to a barber shop pole on the outside of a building. Caption. To get 20 adults and 20 kids in one space.
26 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black and white photo of a Black couple, woman gestures using sign language. Caption. M, A, L, A, I, K, A.
1 hours 31 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Painting of Coretta Scott as a child standing next to 2 Black boys. Caption. And rich soil where slaves sought freedom.
6 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
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Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Civil Rights and the 1950s
Crash Course U.S. History
Episode 39
11 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: Slavery
Crash Course U.S. History
Episode 13
14 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Still image from: Crash Course World History I: The Atlantic Slave Trade
Crash Course World History I
Season 0 / Ep 24
10 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crossroads Stories: Sharing Black Stories From the Crossroads of America
41 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Wide shot of the U, S Capitol building. In the foreground, people walk towards the Capitol along a walkway. Caption. That the U, S Capitol is accessible.
Deaf Mosaic
Episode 404
27 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white photo of 2 baseball players colliding over home plate. Caption. He had the right man in Jackie Robinson.
1 hours 3 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Computer image compares the features of 2 war planes. The P-51C Mustang has speed and maneuverability. The FW-190 has durability and armament. Caption. But the FW-190 is more rugged and has better armament.
45 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
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Mother reads with her 3 children on a couch in a living room setting. Caption. His mother taught him and his sister.
14 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Black men wade along the edge of a river surrounded by trees. Caption. Garrett helped more than 2,000 enslaved people to freedom.
America's Journey Through Slavery
Season 0 / Ep 4
11 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Black and white photo of rows of people crowded into a building. Caption. At the local courthouse, sometimes bringing his son.
The Black American Experience
Season 0 / Ep 8
22 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white photo of a man in uniform grabbing another individual by the arm and raising a hand to hit them. Caption. Fannie Lou as narrator. We have to realize just how grave the problem is.
The Black American Experience
Season 0 / Ep 4
30 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Cartoon image of Muhammad Ali punching a speed bag. Caption. "When it came to fighting, he knew he was good.
Beyond The Page
Episode 1
16 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Black poet, Margaret Walker, writing on a chalkboard. Caption. Narrator. Walker began teaching in 1942 after receiving.
27 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Still image from: From Africa to the White House: Civil Rights and Desegregation (Part 3--With Teaching Artist Ann Caldwell)
From Africa to the White House
Episode 3
23 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: From Africa to the White House: Reconstruction and the Great Migration (Part 2--With Teaching Artist Ann Caldwell)
From Africa to the White House
Episode 2
17 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: From Africa to the White House: Slavery and Freedom (Part 1--With Teaching Artist Ann Caldwell)
From Africa to the White House
Episode 1
24 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Line drawing. Black Seminole man wearing a cloak and long hat lunges forward as a police officer pulls back on his collar. Spanish caption. Osceola murio en prision.
49 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
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Digital illustration of George Washington Carver in a suit, surrounded by blooming plants. Text reads, “George Washington Carver.”
7 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Open field of dry, brown grass with mist hovering above it. Caption: The monument preserves the land where Carver was born--
America's National Monuments: The Historic South
Episode 10
17 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of a person flying through the night sky against a backdrop of buildings and stars while holding a lit candle. Caption: Hi, I'm Faith Ringgold.
Getting To Know Artists
Episode 3
21 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 7
Black man and woman in formal attire walk down the front steps of a building. Caption. Squealing. Slow down.
26 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Go For It! Discover Something New: Hoppin' Plate of History
Go For It! Discover Something New!
Season 0 / Ep 3
8 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
2 women walk down a street, 1 carrying a basket and other a bag of groceries. Caption. Now, if you were smart you'd leave it too.
1 hours 38 minutes
Grade Level: 12
Black and white photo of an African American man and woman standing next to a vehicle parked on a dirt road, piled high with luggage.
1 hour 11 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Adam Bradley, Ph.D (Part One)
Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews
Episode 1
25 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Adam Bradley, Ph.D (Part Two)
Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews
Episode 2
26 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Anthony Sze-Fai Shiu, Ph.D
Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews
Episode 9
29 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Dana A. Williams, Ph.D
Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews
Episode 10
32 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Joanne V. Gabbin, Ph.D (Part One)
Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews
Episode 3
32 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Joanne V. Gabbin, Ph.D (Part Two)
Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews
Episode 4
32 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Marlon Ross, Ph.D
Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews
Episode 8
36 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Shelia Smith McKoy, Ph.D
Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews
Episode 7
40 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Tara T. Green, Ph.D (Part One)
Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews
Episode 5
33 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews With Tara T. Green, Ph.D (Part Two)
Great African American Authors: Extended Interviews
Episode 6
27 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Wide shot of a university plaza with several multi-story white and red buildings. Caption. Of every major American university's curriculum.
Great African American Authors
Episode 1
28 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Interview with young man in an office setting. He is identified as Anthony Sze-Fai Shiu, P, H, D, Professor of English, University of Missouri Kansas City. Caption. Who would help African Americans and America, as well.
Great African American Authors
Episode 2
28 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Middle-aged black man looks just off camera with an incredulous expression like he is speaking to camera for an interview. Caption. Give him blackness, and then bid him to sing?
Great African American Authors
Episode 3
28 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Interview with middle-aged Black man in an office setting. He is identified as Marlon Ross, PhD, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Virginia. Caption. A confrontation between a subjugated, Black protagonist.
Great African American Authors
Episode 4
28 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photo of a man wearing sunglasses standing next to a fifties-era vehicle parked in front of a storefront.
Great African American Authors
Episode 5
28 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photo of a young Maya Angelou smiling in a room with several African masks and sculptures. Caption. Far stranger than most of the characters that she's created.
Great African American Authors
Episode 6
28 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Interview with man wearing a business suit in an office setting. He's looking up with a thoughtful expression and gesturing with his hands. Caption. One that helped to fix.
Great African American Authors
Episode 7
27 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Interview with Black woman wearing a brown jacket and white blouse against a bookshelf backdrop. Caption. Is a story that shows the sort of strength that he had.
Great African American Authors
Episode 8
27 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black woman wearing gold bangles, rings, and hair in braids, holds hands up, framing her face. Caption. So what they would do oftentimes was barter, possibly for sugar.
23 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
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Title text reads, "Happy Kwanzaa," beside a lit wooden kinara.
9 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black woman faces away from camera and looks over her right shoulder within a forested setting. Caption. The journey for Harriet was long and hard.
America's Journey Through Slavery
Season 0 / Ep 3
12 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Black and white frame of slave men, women and children walking on a dirt path. Caption. To lead nearly 300 slaves to freedom.
10 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
ASL
Still image from: Harriet Tubman for Kids
6 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Still image from: Henry and Me: The Story of Wallace Henry Thurman
17 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
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Color illustration. Young Black boy stands, looking apprehensive, next to a man laying in bed and looking back at him. Caption. Some slaves were freed by their owners.
11 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 4
Sepia-tone photo of two men with black skin dressed in Western cowboy attire. A white saddled horse stands next to them.
25 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 10
Still image from: Hidden Figures: Meet the Computers
7 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of four African American mathematicians in the NASA lab. Caption: Their job was to do math.
15 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Black man in a black baseball cap and yellow collared shirt leans to one side, mouth open mid-speech. Caption. We knew there was differences in culture and language.
45 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A group of Black women walking along a path outdoors in dresses, eyes looking downward. Caption. The story of black farmers in the 20th Century.
56 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: I Am Ruby Bridges
12 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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Still image from: I'm Dreaming of a Brown Christmas
11 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Young Black man wears a hockey helmet and a red jersey as looks at us in a dimly lit arena.
15 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo with a bird's eye view of a crowd of people facing camera. Caption. She is a precursor of grassroots leadership.
The Black American Experience
Season 0 / Ep 3
19 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Two people dance as a group of people watches behind them in a gymnasium.
If Cities Could Dance
Season 4 / Ep 6
6 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man in an NYC t-shirt and baseball cap dances in front of the entrance of a building.
If Cities Could Dance
Season 4 / Ep 1
8 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man wearing a red hoodie hops up in the air as he dances with four other people watching and clapping their hands behind him. Across the street is the Howard Theatre.
If Cities Could Dance
Season 3 / Ep 1
6 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close up of a bearded Black man wearing glasses. Caption. The organization component which I work in at C, D, C.
30 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Sepia-toned photo of Madam C.J. Walker. Text reads, “Madam C.J. Walker.”
Influential Women
Episode 4
2 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Mae Jemison wearing an orange astronaut suit on brown paper. Text reads, “Mae Jemison.”
Influential Women
Episode
2 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Raye Montague smiling at us in front of a U.S. Navy ship. Text reads, “Raye Montague.”
Influential Women
Episode 7
2 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration of Ruby Bridges, a young Black girl wearing a white dress, walking in between white men in tan suits. Text reads, “Ruby Bridges.”
Influential Women
Episode 8
2 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Bald man faces away from us as he paints at an easel in an art studio. Plants sit on a windowsill opposite canisters of paintbrushes at the artists' side.
7 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Color illustration. Low angle of John Henry swinging a mallet out in front of him and standing beneath a cloudy sky. Caption. John Henry, well, he was a mighty laborer.
American Tall Tales & Legends
Episode 3
13 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Still image from: John Lewis: Get in the Way
53 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
African father watches his son light a kinara candle holder. Both wear multi-colored kaftans and have a serene expression on their faces.
29 minutes
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Young Langston Hughes wearing a plaid shirt, orange paisley tie, and brown suspenders looks out with a neutral expression.
1 hour 0 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black woman in profile with a city in the background. Caption. And this is me five years ago when this story begins.
1 hours 30 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 12
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Painting. Abraham Lincoln, wearing trousers, shirt, and suspenders holds out his hands to a man. They are standing outside a home under an awning. Caption. Thank you, young man.
12 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Black and white view from behind of seated diners in Western wear looking towards small band on stage.
1 hours 2 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black man sitting outdoors. He wears a hat, blue checked shirt and overalls. He looks upward. Caption. Seven it'll be then.
18 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 12
Jan E Matzeliger standing next to the image of him on the Black Heritage 29 cent USA stamp.
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Group of dancers lean back, arching their back, with hands in the air. Caption. And they did it, they did an excellent job.
28 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Cartoon character standing next to a drawing of an African American man. Caption: I was just reading about Garrett Morgan.
Marvie
Episode 7
1 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Black and white photo of a mule standing in front of a barn and a log cabin. Caption. Soon after she started classes, her family's only mule died.
The Black American Experience
Season 0 / Ep 1
30 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
John Lewis wears a dark suit and sits in front of black and blue background. His face turns to the side with a perplexed expression. Title bar reads, "Minds that matter. John Lewis, Democratic U, S congressman, Georgia."
58 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Frank Waldron & the Jackson Street Jazz Scene
Mossback's Northwest
Season 6 / Ep 8
5 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: George Bush--Washington's Pioneer
Mossback's Northwest
Season 3 / Ep 6
5 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: The Amazing Caytons
Mossback's Northwest
Season 5 / Ep 7
7 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black boy and man open the door to a white vehicle. Caption. Malcolm X Academy pledge goes like this.
15 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Group of Black people in formal attire talk in small groups in a living area. Caption. If you need anything, just yell.
26 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 11
Black man stands in a dark room, light spilling in from 1 small window behind him. Caption. I tended to believe that in the face of such diversity.
57 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
2 Black men lean against a fence and look up, light illuminating their faces. Caption. A young black man whose family has moved from the South.
47 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Nick News: Juneteenth--A Nick News Special
Nick News
Season 2 / Ep 5
22 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: No Time to Waste: The Urgent Mission of Betty Reid Soskin
51 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white photo of a horse-drawn carriage that reads, Freedmen's Hospital Ambulance. A man poses behind the carriage. Caption. Was the only black hospital in the United States.
43 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black people in period costumes gather around a fire pit in the grass with log cabins in background. Caption. And they had no personal freedoms at all.
America's Journey Through Slavery
Season 0 / Ep 2
12 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Black and white closeup of Sam Tucker, civil rights activist. Caption. To end legalized racism in the United States.
40 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Book cover. Painting of Venus and Serena Williams as they gaze toward the middle at each other. Text reads, "Game Changers. The Story of Venus and Serena Williams. Written by Lesa Cline-Ransome. Illustrated by James E Ransome."
Past Present: Giving Past Stories New Life With Lesa Cline-Ransome
Episode 1
4 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black and white photograph of a group of men and one woman sitting in a circle. Some look down at papers in their laps or gesture to one another. Caption. Unless all Black people were free.
The Black American Experience
Season 0 / Ep 5
29 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black girl wears a red collared shirt and two long braids in her hair as she faces away from us towards a white brick wall. Text reads, "Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools."
1 hours 18 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Black and white image of a Black man and several White men standing around a film camera. Caption. Was the first Black man ever to make a movie.
58 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Close up of the face of a person who has dark skin, brown eyes, and a wide nose. Caption: or their genes moved from place to place,
57 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white portrait photograph of Ralph Bunche. Caption. He remains an enigma in American and world history.
1 hours 56 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Young Ralph Ellison sits by a window, looking out and away from a typewriter positioned in front of him.
25 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Author Lesa Cline-Ransome looks at us with a kind and excited expression as she holds her book titled "Before She Was Harriet." Cover illustration shows the side of a young Black woman's face as she looks up toward a night sky.
Read Out Loud
Episode 41
3 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Book cover shows a painting of Venus and Serena Williams as they gaze toward the middle at each other. Text reads, "Game Changers. The Story of Venus and Serena Williams. Written by Lesa Cline-Ransome. Illustrated by James E Ransome."
Read Out Loud
Episode 26
9 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Still image from: Reframing the Narrative: Blacks in Ballet
18 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black, white, and red sketch of several shirtless Haitian men raising guns with bayonets over their heads around 1 non-Haitian man wearing a red uniform and looking serious. Spanish caption. Pero hay más sorpresas en la isla.
Revolutions (Spanish)
Season 0 / Ep 1
11 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Colorful painting depicts a nineteenth century Black man holding up 1 finger across from nineteenth century white man. A boat full of Black people is pulled ashore beneath roiling wave in background.
4 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Older Rosa Parks wearing square glasses and a colorful button-up blouse looks out and away from camera. Caption. King. Two stops later, her ride ended.
24 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Several young people working on an object. Caption: the first all-female African-American RoboCup team.
Science Nation
Episode 171
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo of a woman in a plaid cape talking into a microphone. A man films her from behind. Another man smiles with one hand raised in the background. Caption. This often met criticism, but she didn't back down.
The Black American Experience
Season 0 / Ep 2
19 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Should Art Push You? Raise Up Current Black Artists!
9 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Color illustration. Diamond shaped grid of images show a senior man and girl making a quilt during daytime, and a family running along a fence in the nighttime. Caption. And in the daytime when there was some few minutes.
14 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black man glances to the side and sits with his left palm held up vertically and his right pointer finger touching it. Rows of desks and chairs are in background.
27 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Sisterhood: SC Suffragists--The Rollin Sisters (Part 1)
Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
Episode 1
9 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Sisterhood: SC Suffragists--The Rollin Sisters (Part 2)
Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
Episode 2
8 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Sisterhood: SC Suffragists--The Rollin Sisters (Part 3)
Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
Episode 3
15 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Sisterhood: SC Suffragists--The Rollin Sisters (Part 4)
Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
Episode 4
12 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Still image from: Sisterhood: SC Suffragists--The Rollin Sisters (Part 5)
Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
Episode 5
13 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Black and white frame shows a woman staring through the bars of a window in the moonlight. Caption lyrics. When our long, long journey is passed.
1 hours 12 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 12
Sepia toned photo of a senior Black man and 4 women from mid-1990s. Caption. My grandmother is a very territorial woman.
29 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Senior Black woman with a gold front tooth and dark glasses smiles while looking up and away from camera. Caption. That's what we sung. Sound of chuckles.
1 hours 30 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Black and white medium shot of civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, in middle age. She stands before a backdrop with historic photographs of civil rights activists. Text on image reads, "This is her story."
Standing Up for Freedom
Episode 1
13 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Closeup of the front of the Supreme Court building. Statues and stairs lead to the west entry door of the building. A series of columns support the building's pediment. Text on image reads, "Thanks to the Civil Rights Act."
Standing Up for Freedom
Episode 2
17 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Black and white side angle shot of a young Billie Holiday singing. Next to her, a cellist and another man without an instrument. Caption lyrics. Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
57 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 12
Black and white photo of a pre-teen girl looking at camera. She wears a button down coat with her hands clasped behind her back and stands in front of a large school building. Caption. Linda Brown was a student at this segregated school.
Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation
Episode 5
11 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of Abraham Lincoln wearing white speaking from an outdoor podium to a crowd around him. An 1850s U, S flag is nearby. Caption. Male as narrator. In the following debates with Douglas, Lincoln came closer.
Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation
Episode 2
15 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of the bench, bar, gallery seating and floor of a courtroom. Caption. The new law concerned the railroads of  Louisiana.
Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation
Episode 3
12 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of what appears to be a legal document from the mid-1800s. Paper is aged and handwriting is written in black ink using cursive style from that era. Caption. He used to be recognized as a citizen.
Supreme Court Spotlight
Episode 2
1 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 1. Slavery, which Europeans practiced before they invaded the Americas, was important to all colonial powers and existed in all North American colonies.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 1
4 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery (Concept 10)
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 10
4 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 2. Slavery and the slave trade were central to the development and growth of the colonial economies and what is now the United States.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 2
4 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 3. Protections for slavery were embedded in the founding documents; enslavers dominated the federal government, Supreme Court, and Senate from 1787 through 1860.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 3
4 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 4. Slavery was an institution of power, designed to create profit for enslavers and break the will of the enslaved and was a relentless quest for profit abetted by racism.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 4
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 5. Enslaved people resisted the efforts of their enslavers to reduce them to commodities in both revolutionary and everyday ways.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 5
5 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Slide shows Key Concept 6. The experience of slavery varied depending on time, location, crop, labor performed, size of slaveholding and gender.
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 6
5 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery (Concept 7)
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 7
4 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery (Concept 8)
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 8
4 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery (Concept 9)
Teaching Hard History: A Framework for Teaching American Slavery
Episode 9
4 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Three log-cabin-style structures in a row next to each other, near a paved driveway and white house, and backing up to a wooded area. Caption reads: "FightersHeaven.com."
Teen Kids News
Episode 2003
21 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Installation shows a mannequin wearing a beaded face covering and quilted dress with fabric pieces surrounding the hem in a gallery with a quilt hung in the background.
6 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: The Backbone
1 hours 11 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photo of a man standing in profile. He looks down at a notecard held in his hand. Title card reads, "Carl Cotton, A Natural Talent."
The Brain Scoop
Episode 73
9 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white frame of Jackie Robinson at bat mid warm-up swing. Caption. Come on, Jackie boy, get a hold of one!
1 hours 17 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Young woman stands in shadows next to a projected image entitled, The End of the Old Testament. Caption. It was not uncommon for birthdays to be recorded down.
1 hours 47 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black man in a white tunic stands on a platform to the right of 2 men in suits and top hats. Caption. To stand on a raised platform.
America's Journey Through Slavery
Season 0 / Ep 1
12 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Storybook cover with a colorful illustration of 2 students holding books and walking; 1 of the students has white hair and glasses. Title reads, "The Oldest Student. How Mary Walker Learned to Read."
14 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
ASL
Watercolor painting of a child standing with 1 foot up on a fence, houses in the distant background. Caption. Each morning she climbed up on the fence.
7 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: K - 5
Still image from: The Path to Creativity Is Not Predictable: How to Be a Successful Black Artist!
7 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12