Topical Videos
Arranged by subject


Visionary Video Clip  
Reconstruction - 1877
Lerone Bennett, Jr. The Importance of 1877
Jim Crow  & Segregation

Ray Charles Playing without Discrimination

Sonia Sanchez Riding the Bus in Alabama

Ossie Davis My Family Experience with the Klan

John Hope Franklin Racism in My Childhood

Toni Morrison Segregation and Racism in Lorain, Ohio

Samuel Gravely On the Semi-Segregated Military
Brown vs. Board of Education – 1954
Benjamin Hooks Importance of Brown vs. Board of Education

Constance Baker Motley Brown v. Broad of Education
Testing The Courts on the Issue of Equal Rights in Alabama

Fred Shuttlesworth Stopping at Nothing for Equal Rights

Wyatt T. Walker Jail Photos of Dr. King
Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement

Dorothy Height My Experience in the Civil Rights Movement

Fred Shuttlesworth My Relationship with Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wyatt T. Walker Meeting Dr. King for the First Time

Andrew Young Working for Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr.
Freedom Walks, Freedom Rides, and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

James Forman SNCC

Andrew Young Civil Rights Marches
Registering to Vote in the Segregated South

Walter Fauntroy Voting Rights and Politics

Fred Shuttlesworth Fighting Segregation from the Pulpit

James Forman Albany, Georgia Movement

James Forman Discussions with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Constance Baker Motley King and Abernathy in Jail in Albany, Georgia
The March from Selma to Montgomery

Amelia Boynton Robinson Marching in Selma
Klan & White Supremacist Bombings of Civil Rights Leaders

Fred Shuttleworth The Night Klansman Bombed My Home
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Coretta Scott King Preparing to Start the Movement/ The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The March on Washington
Lerone Bennett, Jr. The March on Washington – Crossing racial, gender and class lines

Walter Fauntroy The Success of the March on Washington
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
Coretta Scott King Keeping the Dream Alive / The Martin Luther King Center
Dorothy Height Meeting Martin Luther King, Jr. as a teenager

David DuBois Out of the Civil Rights Movement

Dorothy Height Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination

Andrew Young Martin Luther King Assassination
Remembering Malcolm X

Maya Angelou Malcolm X

Percy Sutton My Legal Client, Malcolm X
Affirmative Action

John Hope Franklin The Importance of History

Lerone Bennett, Jr. The Jason Blair Controversy

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