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1. Segregation and the South's "Jim Crow Laws." John Hope Franklin describes a few of his early experiences with segregation and racism. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 2. Brown v. Board. Oliver Hill, the civil rights attorney who overturned the separate but equal doctrine, talks about cases that led to Brown v. Board. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 3. Brown v. Board. Robert Lee Carter, one of the lead attorneys for Brown v. Board of Education, explains how Brown was more than just one case and the philosophies of various individuals working on the case. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 4. Brown v. Board. Constance Baker Motley, the first Black American woman appointed to the federal bench, discusses the controversial strategy shift from "separate but equal" to desegregation in the Brown case. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 5. Brown v. Board. Benjamin Hooks, former head of the NAACP, talks about the importance of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 6. Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Joseph Lowery, co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), talks about the beginnings of the SCLC. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 7. Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Wyatt T. Walker talks about his experience as an SCLC leader. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 8. Student Sit-in Movement. Matthew Kennedy talks about the impact of the Nashville student sit-ins. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 9. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). James Forman, former Executive Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) discusses the commitment made by the first members of SNCC and the strategic tactic of working "inside Mississippi" to affect change. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 10. Freedom Rides. Bob Moses talks about his experience when, as field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he helped the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organize the Freedom Rides. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 11. Freedom Rides. Rev. C.T. Vivian talks about his participation and arrest during the Freedom Rides. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 12. Mississippi Voter Drive. Harvard graduate, Math teacher and SNCC Field Secretary Robert Moses worked with C.C. Bryant in rural McComb, Mississippi to educate and register Black voters. This experience informed the larger 1964 "Freedom Summer" Mississippi Black voter education and registration campaign. Bob Moses talks about his early experiences while registering Black voters in rural Mississippi. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 13. March on Washington. Joseph Lowery, co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), talks about preparing for the March on Washington. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 14. March on Washington. Lerone Benett, Jr. discusses how participation in the March on Washington crossed racial, gender and class lines. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 15. Freedom Summer. As Co-Director of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), an umbrella organization for all the major civil rights groups then working in Mississippi, and a leading SNCC figure, Bob Moses was the main organizer of COFO's Freedom Summer project, a campaign to educate and register as many Black Mississippi voters as possible. SNCC leaders set up health clinics
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organized and ran Freedom Schools for neighborhood children and adults. White citizens responded with mass violence and destruction, including bombings, shootings and beatings. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 16. The Voting Rights Act of 1965. Joseph Lowery discusses the importance of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 17. The Rise of "Black Power." Alvin Poussaint, renowned psychiatrist and medical doctor to civil rights protestors in Mississippi, discusses the first time he heard the phrase "Black Power." |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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18. The Black Panther Party. James Forman, former executive director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), talks about the Black Panther Party. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 19. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated. Civil rights activist and former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Joseph Lowery talks about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 20. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated. Andrew Young describes his feelings about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 21. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated. Coretta Scott King talks about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and keeping his dream alive. |
Impact of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 22. Early Civil Rights Protests. Civil rights activist Dorothy Height talks about her participation in early nonviolent civil rights protests. |
Women of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 23. The Montgomery Bus Boycott. Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, talks about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
Women of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 24. March on Washington. Civil rights activist Dorothy Height talks about her role among the "Big Six" civil rights leaders. |
Women of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 25. March from Selma to Montgomery - Part 1. Amelia Boynton Robinson talks about how the idea for the March from Selma to Montgomery came about. |
Women of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 26. March from Selma to Montgomery - Part 2. Amelia Boynton Robinson talks about the violence she experienced during the March from Selma to Montgomery. |
Women of the Civil Rights Movement |
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| 27. Impact of nonviolent resistance. Wyatt T. Walker talks about his activism work with Martin Luther King, Jr. that led to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act. |
Evaluating Nonviolence as a Method of Social Change |
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28. Effectiveness of the nonviolent resistance training. C.T. Vivian describes how his training in the methodology of nonviolence was tested while he was in prison. |
Evaluating Nonviolence as a Method of Social Change |
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