NBC's Lester Holt revisits the story of Rosa Parks who was prepared to go to jail and fight for her rights when she was denied a seat on the bus. Within days of her arrest Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called on black citizens to boycott public buses until demands for equal treatment were met.
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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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NBC's Lester Holt discusses the impact of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education on Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The Little Rock Nine were the first black students to attend the all-white school.
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Historian Josh Brown analyzes a political cartoon from the magazine Harper's Weekly that focuses on former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and Hiram Revels, the first black senator in history.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Ku Klux Klan, organized in the late 1860s to deny rights to southern blacks. The organization began with threats and quickly incorporated violence.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the federal government's creation of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865, to assist newly freed blacks with food, clothing, and jobs.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how both the north and the south had to draft soldiers during the Civil War. Since the wealthy could buy their way out of being drafted, class tension erupted into draft riots.
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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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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the entrance of Missouri into the Union in 1819 and the compromise reached about whether Missouri should be a slave or free state.
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