These videos feature documentary footage of national events that occurred during the civil rights movement from 1940 through the early 1970’s. The featured videos vividly tell the story of the struggle and violence that took place in the South. Adults and children placed their lives on the front lines for justice every day.
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John Trudell, a Native American activist, talks about an often overlooked group of people. Trudell shares how Native Americans fit into the fight for civil rights. Connections, P.A. Bennett, ETV, 2002
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Civil Rights leaders try to desegregate the most racist capital in the nation, Birmingham, Alabama. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S...
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was the major civil rights organization in South Carolina. Several other organizations such as Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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There were several key leaders during the Civil Rights Movement. Despite visible leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and John F. Kennedy, young people played a major role in...
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The Plessy v. Ferguson decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case...