This page contains videos about marginalized groups in America. Our team of educators have vetted these videos for you to use. They are all shorts (2 to 20 mins in length). We have assembled this page as part of our commitment to truth in education.
History Shorts
Reconstruction: The Vote - Black History in Two Minutes
Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship - Shipwrecks of America
SNCC’s Legacy: A Civil Rights History - CNN
The Story of Reconstruction
Despite Fearing for His Life, Key Witness Reverend Wright Testifies
Fillibuster - Black History in Two Minutes or so
Black Power and the Birth of Black Studies - Black History in Two Minutes or so
School Integration - Black History in Two Minutes or so
The Harlem Renaissance - Black History in Two Minutes or so
Life Aboard a Slave Ship - History
Rare Audio of Enslaved People Connects History to the Present
How A 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement
Harriet Tubman’s Road to Freedom
Why the US Government Murdered Fred Hampton
Poor People’s Campaign - Black History in Two Minutes or so
Mamie Till Mobley - Black History in Two Minutes or so
The Civil War & Emancipation - Black History in Two Minutes or so
Ida B. Wells: Fearless Investigative Reporter of Southern Horrors
The Last Known Slave Ship - 60 Minutes Archive
The Freedom Riders History
The Chicano Movement in Texas - NHD Documentary
The Last Surviving Witness to Emmett Till’s Abduction Finally Tells His Story
Traveling With “The Green Book” During the Jim Crow Era
The Movement and Campus Violence - Black History in Two Minutes or so
Transatlantic Slave Trade - Black History in Two Minutes or so
Ella Baker - ‘The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement’
Convict Leasing - Black History in Two Minutes or so
Can Kids Change the World? - The Civil Rights Movement
The Hidden History of Brown v. Board of Education
Reflections on the Greensboro Lunch Counter
Bloody Sunday Explainer - Black History Month with Scholastic
Martin Luther King Jr. on Overcoming Fear - BBC Global
How a Lunch Counter Sit-In Became an Iconic Civil Rights Moment
How the Little Rock 9 Impacted the Civil Rights Movement
Racial Segregation and Concentrated Poverty: The History of Housing in Black America
Rare Video Footage of Historic Alabama 1965 Civil Rights Marches, MLK’s Speech
Black History - Black Inventors
W.E.B. Du Bois: Activist Leader Niagara Movement & Co-Founder of NAACP
History Brief: The Black Panther Party
Black Wall Street Established in Tulsa, OK - Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre
Untold Black History Month Gems: Short Stories - John Berry Meachum
The Life of Malcolm X
Bessie Coleman - 3 Minute History Cartoon
What I Wasn’t Taught In School
The African Slave Trade: What Schools Never Taught You