Professor Ken Masugi follows the establishment of the doctrine of "separate but equal" and its opposition and eventual downfall from a legal perspective. He examines particularly the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education.
To listen to this lecture, scroll to session five, and select the RealAudio link to the left.
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute interprets the struggle of African Americans in Birmingham, AL, to secure their civil rights as citizens of the U.S. and members of the community. It also examines human rights issues across the globe.
The institute offers exhibits, a 12-min. film, tours for school groups, and educational and recreational events.
The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center aims to educate the public about African-American history and culture from African origins to the present through a variety of programs, including museum exhibits, research and publications, visiting scholars, oral and visual history, and adult and children's educational activities.
The museum and center offer exhibits and tours.
The A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum promotes, honors, and celebrates the legacy of A. Philip Randolph and contributions made by African Americans to America's labor history. The Museum facility educates the public about the legacy and contributions of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The permanent collection displays exhibits which are pertinent to the study of the Pullman Historic District, the Great Migration, American labor history, A. Philip Randolph, the Pullman Porters, and the American Civil Rights Movement.
The museum offers exhibits.
Completed in 1851, this National Historic Landmark is a museum of state history and politics. Additions to the building were made several times. The Confederacy began in the original Senate chamber and the Selma to Montgomery 1965 Voting Rights March ended on the street in front of the building. Today, the governor and other executive branch officers still occupy offices in the Capitol.
The site offers exhibits and tours.
The U.S. Department of Justice takes another look at the Emmett Till case in which a 14-year-old African-American boy was brutally murdered by two white men in Mississippi.
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On the eve of the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin describes the intense deliberations that went into two historic Court decisions: Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and the Dred Scot decision of 1857.
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From Alabama Humanities:
This six-day, interdisciplinary teachers' institute will explore African Americans' attempts to achieve full equality in Alabama and neighboring Southern states. Resident scholars will assist participants in determining, assessing, and articulating the continued importance of past human and civil rights successes in Alabama—and elsewhere in the South.
No specifics currently available online.