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Civil Rights

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
Group of people stand in a cluster with cars in background. Caption. Living inside and outside of mainstream American society.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 8
27 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man stands with hands clasped and lips parted mid-speech. Backdrop displays photo collage of Chinese people. Caption. For the Chinese American community.
A History Of Chinese American Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 4
27 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cropped black and white photo. Midsection of figure wearing leather jacket and knee-high boots while holding on to an airplane propeller.
A History Of Chinese American Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 5
27 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo. Chinese man stands in front of building with sign that reads, "Washing and Ironing." Caption. Is a denial of the equal protection of the laws.
A History Of Chinese American Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 3
28 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Photo collage of Chinese people with text overlay that reads, "Exclusion and Acceptance."
A History Of Chinese American Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 2
26 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of weathered Constitution on parchment with handwritten script that reads, "We the people," in large script at top.
A History of Civil Rights in America
Episode 1
29 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white photo of Abraham Lincoln wearing a top hat and flanked by men in uniform. Large tent and trees in background.
A History of Civil Rights in America
Episode 2
26 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Mottled black and white photo of 3 Native Americans with white tipis in background.
A History of Civil Rights in America
Episode 3
28 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white illustration of early 20th century woman with her arm raised to the side. She faces a man in a top hat as he leans toward her with his hand up. Another man reclines and opens his mouth as if shouting in background.
A History of Civil Rights in America
Episode 4
27 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of front page of newspaper with headline that reads, "Supreme Court Strikes Out School Segregation as Against Constitution."
A History of Civil Rights in America
Episode 5
28 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white frame of Martin Luther King, Junior gesturing out as he speaks at a podium with several microphones. A crowd of men stands behind him, many wearing white caps.
A History of Civil Rights in America
Episode 6
27 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Faded still frame of men in wide-brimmed hats, bent over and working in a field.
A History of Civil Rights in America
Episode 7
27 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Woman parts lips in mid-speech. Painting with mounds of pottery and a figure holding up their fist as backdrop. Caption. That would allow Hispanic immigrants.
A History of Hispanic Achievement in America
Episode 7
28 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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 photo of a crowd of Black people gathered outside a building on a tree-lined street and walking towards camera. Caption. To the state capitol in Montgomery.
54 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo of Japanese-Americans walking along a train platform. Above this, a bridge crowded with people. Caption. To make us as comfortable as we could be.
30 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Black and white image of people walking in a procession with some carrying flags. Caption. African Americans are about to change everything.
America the Story of Us
Season 1 / Ep 11
43 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Men in green military fatigues and helmets run towards camera with rifles in hands and waves crashing behind them. Caption. The men are left with virtually no cover on the beach.
America the Story of Us
Season 1 / Ep 10
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 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
Lake with the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D,C in the distance. Text on image reads, "Becoming Equal Under the Law."
33 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white film still of a man in a dark suit, top hat, and curled mustache, walking outside and in front of a smiling woman with a fashionable dress and white parasol.
2 hours 33 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 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
1880's Tally Sheet from a Colorado election. Caption. Colorado had given women the right to vote!
26 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: Baker v. Carr
BRI's Homework Help
Episode
4 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: Brown v. Board of Education
BRI's Homework Help
Episode
4 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: Freedom of Assembly
BRI's Homework Help
Episode
5 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: BRI's Homework Help: Wisconsin v. Yoder
BRI's Homework Help
Episode
6 minutes 10 seconds
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: 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: Septima Poinsette Clark
Carolina Snaps
Episode 14
1 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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
Still image from: Citizen Better: Student Activism
Citizen Better
Season 1 / Ep 8
9 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Civics Fundamentals With Judge Douglas Ginsburg: What Movement Tried to End Racial Discrimination?
Civics Fundamentals With Judge Douglas Ginsburg
Episode 81
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Group of Black, White, and Brown teenagers walking down a school hallway. Caption. Farmville has become a model for integrated schools.
Democracy In America
Episode 5
28 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 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
ASL
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
ASL
Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The 1960s in America
Crash Course U.S. History
Episode 40
15 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening
Crash Course U.S. History
Episode 5
10 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Thousands of North Korean soldiers standing in formation in perfectly straight lines. Caption. Narrator. In the late 1990s, a series of unprecedented floods.
51 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
ASL
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
ASL
Black and white photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. standing solemnly in front of a podium full of microphones.
12 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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
ASL
Still image from: I Am Ruby Bridges
12 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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
Still image from: John Lewis: Get in the Way
53 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Living St. Louis: Charles Henry Turner's Study of Bees
Living St. Louis
Episode
6 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Living St. Louis: Dred Scott and "A More or Less Perfect Union"
Living St. Louis
Episode
4 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Living St. Louis: Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing
Living St. Louis
Episode
2 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: 6 Surprising Facts About the 19th Amendment
Origin of Everything
Season 3 / Ep 10
12 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: How Columbus Invented Cannibals
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 5
6 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: How Did Martin Luther King, Jr. Get a Holiday?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 16
9 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Is the Rosa Parks Story True?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 20
8 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: The 2nd Amendment Explained
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 29
9 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: What Is Racial Passing?
Origin of Everything
Season 2 / Ep 12
10 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 3
6 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do We Say “Asian American” Not “Oriental”?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 35
6 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Was It Illegal to be “Ugly”?
Origin of Everything
Season 1 / Ep 34
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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
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
Still image from: Primary Source Essentials: Letter From Birmingham Jail
Primary Source Essentials
Episode
2 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black woman, seated next to young Black man, faces camera and gestures using sign language, 2 index fingers linked together. Caption. Like those of deaf women and the role they play in their family.
25 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Still image from: Roots of Resistance: How Highways Segregated American Cities
Roots of Resistance
Season 1 / Ep 7
11 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Roots of Resistance: Is Voting a Privilege or a Right?
Roots of Resistance
Season 1 / Ep 5
12 minutes 17 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
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
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
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 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
Profile of an older man in a collared shirt wearing glasses and looking forward, mouth tight. Another man stands to his side turned slightly from camera as he stares forward with a serious expression. Caption. Gideon attempted to defend himself.
Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation
Episode 4
16 minutes 7 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
Black and white illustration of a man, woman, and toddler seated at a dining table with food, flowers and table settings. Caption. So, from 1840, there was a campaign to outlaw abortion.
Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation
Episode 1
16 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Image of men in Confederate uniforms riding horses in a Civil War battle reenactment. An overlay of an oval shaped photo appears next to the soldiers with text that reads, "Robert E. Lee." Caption. They don't have a general the equal of Robert E. Lee.
Talking Maps
Episode 3
35 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Black and white photo of a crowd of people carrying luggage from a ship in the background. Caption. 25 million people will touch our shores.
The Story Of America
Episode 3
58 minutes
Grade Level: 5 - 11
Seated Black man in a suit writing at a teacher's desk.  A line of Black teenagers are to his left. Caption. Blacks were denied admission to white schools.
57 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white movie frame from To Kill a Mockingbird shows Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch seated in the passenger side of a vehicle. Caption. Heck as narrator. I'll send Zeebo out right away to pick him up.
2 hours 9 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo. President Johnson signs a bill, surrounded by a crowd of men in suits. Caption. To Pass the 1964 Civil Rights and 1965 Voting Rights Acts.
44 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Who Was Ghandi?
6 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Wide shot of a car passing through an intersection with traffic lights. Caption. We met with Hu Jia.
26 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12