Videos
Below are short video clips from March 2012 of the author participating in the Scholars Online portion of the Choices Program: History and Current Issues for the Classroom. For more information see http://www.choices.edu/resources/scholarsonline.php
- Who are you and what do you do?
- Why is it important for high school students to learn about the civil rights movement?
- Why is it difficult to say when the civil rights movement began and ended?
- What was life like for black people in the South under Jim Crow?
- How did black Southerners resist Jim Crow?
- Why did black activism begin to be more successful in the 1950s?
- Who was Emmett Till?
- Why was the murder of Emmett Till important?
- What were the Brown vs. Board of Education cases?
- How did the movement that arose in the 1960s differ from earlier black activism?
- How did white Southerners resist black activism?
- Was the federal government supportive of the civil rights movement?
- How did the civil rights movement change in the late 1960s?
- What was black power?
- What were the major accomplishments of the civil rights movement and what challenges remain?
Click on each question to see the author's response.
