The Supreme Court's landmark opinion overturned its earlier ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and declared segregated schools unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court's opinion in Brown II reflects the struggle between federal and state governments on how and when school desegregation would occur.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped enforce the Brown ruling, a decade later.
This collection of excerpts from legislation and court decisions documents key phases of the legal struggle to gain and implement equal education.
In this video segment from New York Voices, botanists study plants to inform agriculture and climate change.
In this video segment from Africa, learn about the Dama, a rare event and rite of passage for the Dogon in Mali.
This video segment from WILD TV features a man who raises pigeons as a hobby.
In this Wide Angle video, learn about the economic boom that has transformed Ireland into a prosperous nation.
We offer you some hints, gathered over long experience of helping educators integrate video into their teaching, about how to make the most of VITAL video in your lessons.
Eileen Walbert was among the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama who took a stand for civil rights, as she describes in this oral history from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
This flyer from the 1962 Birmingham selective buying campaign encourages African Americans to boycott discriminatory businesses; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, captures the voices of several civil rights leaders.
This audio compilation, recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, pays tribute to the women -- both leaders and widows of slain leaders -- of the Civil Rights movement.
Recorded live at the 1963 March on Washington, this audio segment captures the voice of SNCC leader John Lewis.
Explorer Tom Murphy braves a ground blizzard during a winter night in Yellowstone as seen in this video segment from Nature.
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 17-year-old guitarist Kimani Griffin of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, plays the third movement Preludio e toccatina from Aquarelle by Sergio Assad.
See the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial wall in Washington D.C. through the eyes of war veteran and contemporary poet Yusef Komunyakaa. In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, Komunyakaa reads his poem Facing It.
This video from Wide Angle reports on the increasingly difficult conditions for farmers in China that have caused many rural Chinese to flee the countryside.
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the new challenges the farmers of Ireland are facing amidst the country's economic boom.
In this video from Wide Angle, the sparse life of the rural farmer in India is compared to the wealth of consumer goods available to wealthier city dwellers.