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Pbs Learning Media: Activism in the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 6th - 8th
In this interactive lesson, students will learn about the historical background of racial segregation and the brave individuals and groups who stood up against segregation during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Pbs Learning Media: Civil Rights Special Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Multimedia collection of video, primary text documents and audio on Civil Rights, especially Brown vs. Board of Education.
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Pbs Learning Media: Briggs v. Elliott, Harry and Eliza Briggs

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Harry and Eliza Briggs describe their experience in the first school desegregation case, Briggs v. Elliott.
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Collected Excerpts

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of excerpts from legislation and court decisions documents key phases of the legal struggle to gain and implement equal education.
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Pbs Learning Media: Documenting Brown: Brown v Board of Education, 1955

For Students 9th - 10th
The Supreme Court's opinion in Brown II reflects the struggle between federal and state governments on how and when school desegregation would occur.
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Pbs Learning Media: Re Examining Brown

For Students 9th - 10th
A teacher lesson that explores the struggles to end segregation in schools. Students will research and use role-playing to understand some of the people and issues that sparked the BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION case in 1954 and how that...