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Ages: 10 - 18
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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks took the bus home from work. In one of her books, she tells us what happened when she was told to give up her seat.
"One evening in early December, 1955, I was sitting in the front seat of the colored section of a bu...s in Montgomery, Alabama. The white people were sitting in the white section. More white people got on, and they filled up all the seats in the white section. When that happened, we black people were supposed to give up our seats to the whites. But I didn't move. The white driver said, 'Let me have those front seats.' I didn't get up. I was tired of giving in to white people."
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April 18, 2010 at 09:44 AM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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The Civil Rights Movement is over 40 years old. This video covers the people and events that caused sweeping reforms and civil rights laws.Find more U.S. History and Government resources on the Regents Review 2.0website. (4mins)
January 30, 2012 at 11:06 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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Campaign ad from the 1960 election cycle
August 1, 2009 at 05:06 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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Rise of Black Power
From hippocampus.org, produced by University of CA and Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
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The civil rights movement continued to make progress during the 1960s through the controversial implementation of forced busing and affirmative action measures. Most people viewed Martin Luther King, Jr., as the principle leader of the movement. King... maintained a large following who supported his promotion of non-violent protest. King hoped to integrate all neglected and oppressed peoples into American society and to ensure the same equality for everyone. (Video is narrated with slides and speeches.)
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December 10, 2009 at 01:28 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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On August 28, 1963, a quarter million people gather to support civil rights, and share Dr. King's "dream" of equality. (3:10)
January 18, 2011 at 05:07 PM
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Ages: 13 - 18
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Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Jr., on November 22, 1963, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson mournfully assumed the role of the nation's leader. Johnson, a former senator from Texas, served as the Senate Democratic Leader... for most of his congressional career. His political role model was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Johnson openly followed Roosevelt's push for social welfare reform.
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December 10, 2009 at 01:19 PM
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Ages: 13 - 18
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From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. This video tells the little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination. The professional...ly-made video from PBS is part of the series titled American Experience. (47:51)
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February 9, 2011 at 07:32 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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In the 1920s, thousands of African Americans left the rural South for cities in the North in a movement called "The Great Migration." Their arrival in New York City marked a period called "The Harlem Renaissance." In this video segment from A Walk ...Through Harlem, we learn that only 30 years earlier many of these descendants of slaves had worked as poor sharecroppers. Although slavery had ended, many blacks were still uneducated. Their shift to the urban North was an attempt to escape the violence and oppression they experienced in the South. They created a new voice for themselves during the Harlem Renaissance, which was a social, artistic and cultural movement. (1min)
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January 30, 2012 at 11:00 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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John Green teaches you about the early days of the Civil Rights movement. By way of providing context for this, John also talks a bit about wider America in the 1950s. The 1950s are a deeply nostalgic period for many Americans, but there is more than... a little idealizing going on here. The 1950s were a time of economic expansion, new technologies, and a growing middle class. America was becoming a suburban nation thanks to cookie-cutter housing developments like Levittown. While the white working class saw their wages and status improve, the proverbial rising tide wasn't lifting all proverbial ships. A lot of people were excluded from the prosperity of the 1950s. Segregation in housing and education made for some serious inequality for African Americans. As a result, the Civil Rights movement was born. John will talk about the early careers of Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and even Earl Warren. He'll teach you about Brown v Board of Education, and the lesser known Mendez vs. Westminster, the Montgomery Bus Boycott. (11:57)
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November 24, 2013 at 07:47 AM
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Ages: 11 - 18
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The fight for civil rights was the fight for equality. In this song, witness Martin Luther King Jr. use the most powerful weapon of all: words. The song covers the passing of the Civil Rights Bill, the Voting Rights Act and Brown v. Board of Educatio...n. But MLK couldn’t always keep the peace, and the song also covers some of the more violent moments in the fight for civil rights, including the assassinations of JFK and Malcolm X. Lyrics included. (3:05)
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May 22, 2012 at 12:19 PM
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