Civil Rights Movement in America - Standing Up For Freedom on the Learning Videos Channel

From the fight to abolish slavery in the 1800s to the efforts to stop segregation in the 1900s, this program chronicles the civil rights movement in America.

Students will learn about the courageous leaders of the Abolitionist Movement like William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Tubman who risked their lives to help enslaved people to freedom. The students will come to understand the importance of the Supreme Court decision in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson and the effects of the “separate but equal” doctrine.

Students will learn about the formation of the NAACP and the important court battles over integrating schools. Children will realize the dangers that many African American children overcame for a better education. Viewers will come to understand how the protests led by civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks battled discrimination and helped people throughout the United States gain equal treatment in restaurants, trains and buses. The major events of the civil rights movement will come alive for students. They will learn how people, working together in a non-violent way, can change unfair laws and make America a better place for everyone to live.