African American Equal Rights

Study African American Equal Rights using Online Video

Use these 3 online educational video titles to follow the plight of African Americans in the years following the Civil War, from the poverty and discrimination that befell them in the South to the climate of inequality and racial violence that pervaded American society well into the 1960s. Learn how the peaceful strategies of the civil rights movement were often countered with savage attacks by white supremacists.

Learning Objectives:

• Trace the African American struggle for equality following the Civil War, gaining insight to the impact of Jim Crow laws and the poverty, discrimination, segregation, and threat of white violence experienced by blacks that lived in the South.
• Grasp the post-World War II factors that led to a new civil rights movement, including the increased recognition of the NAACP and the end of European colonialism.
• Identify the contributions of Asa Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. to the African American struggle for equal rights.
• Survey the backdrop and achievements of the Civil Rights movement, examining the impact of Brown v. Board of Education, boycotts, sit-ins, and marches; and review the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

• History > African American History > The Struggle For Equal Rights
• The Civil War and New Racism (Runtime: 18:26)
• African American Achievement (Runtime: 22:02)
• Civil Rights and African American Pride (Runtime: 22:26)