NBC's Rehema Ellis interviews Congressman John Lewis, Selma Mayor Joe Smitherman, and others about the day known as "Bloody Sunday," when brutal police attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, AL, shocked the nation.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary looks at the lesser-known figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Though Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X are the best-known names in the Civil Rights Movement, there were many more largely unknown people vital to the movement.
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Ernest Green was the first black student to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock, AR. In this NBC News segment, Green looks back at the first days of desegregation and his experiences going to Central High.
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In this archival footage, the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, discusses the issues of desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock. Nine African-American students, known as the Little Rock Nine, were met with protesters when they entered the all-white school.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, at the turn of the 20th century, more women enrolled in colleges like Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Radcliffe, which allowed them to pursue higher education and prepare themselves for professional life.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Jane Addams, a wealthy woman who was a pioneer of social reform. She lived and worked in Hull House, a settlement house that assisted poor immigrants with child care and English lessons.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how small farmers formed the Farmers' Alliance to increase their political power. The alliance became the core of the new Populist Party.
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Professor Eric Foner of Columbia University discusses the Black Codes, which were written by white southerners to force blacks to keep working on plantations.
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Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains a political cartoon from 1839 in which the enforcement of the "gag-rule," which prohibited discussion about slavery in the House of Representatives, is satirized.
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Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains a cartoon about the fight between pro-slavery Democrats and Free Soilers in the 1850s.
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