Orville Edwards describes how community gardens help improve the quality of life in the city in this video segment from WILD TV.
This video from Wide Angle tells the story of two identical twins, one of whom was classified as white and the other as black, highlighting the difficulty in defining race in Brazilian society.
These materials document the philosophy and activities of the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama, who fought for racial equality and voting rights for African Americans; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Justice Constance Baker Motley recalls her role as an NAACP attorney in landmark school desegregation cases.
In this video segment from Nature, crabs face numerous obstacles in their migration from their forest home to the Caribbean Sea.
Botanists and biologists work to create a DNA barcode library for plant life in this video segment from New York Voices.
Learn about the Dance Theatre of Harlem is this segment from A Walk Through Harlem.
A third grade class in Wuhan province, China holds debates for the election of class monitor in this segment from Independent Lens.
In this video segment from Africa, Flora explains why she is content to return to the bush.
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the farmers of Vidarbha in central India who have seen a loss in profits due to the high cost of borrowing money and the low prices for their crops in a globalized market.
A 1967 federal court order resulted in this document, which mandated school desegregation in Birmingham.
In this video from Nature, observe elephants trek across the desert to an isolated waterhole.
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the conditions that have caused some Zimbabweans to leave their homeland for Botswana.
Diane Nash was a college student when she started leading sit-in demonstrations to protest discrimination. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Nash describes her role in the Civil Rights movement.
The disappearance of bees will have tremendous impact upon the way we live according to scientists in this segment from Nature.
This Wide Angle video segment compares two families in Turkey one more religious, and one more secular.
The Fourteenth Amendment established the equal protection clause, later used in key desegregation cases.
The Supreme Court's 1896 ruling legalized the separate but equal doctrine that sanctioned segregation.
The Supreme Court's 1927 opinion in Gong Lum v. Rice affirmed legalized school segregation.
This 1946 federal court ruling marked a victory for Mexican Americans and chipped away at the separate but equal doctrine, declaring segregated schools based on national origin unconstitutional.