Civil Rights Movements

Critical thinking requires sensitivity to different cultural perspectives, listening to the opinions of other cultures, and reflecting thoughtfully and objectively on their values. 

Our objectives for this activity: 

• Analyze and interpret works of art, literature, religion, philosophy, and other primary source texts in historical contexts. 

• Examine the contrast between counterarguments.

An (S) symbol will indicate material added by students. If you have one you'd like me to add, please message me or include it in any of your initial posts or replies. 

Trigger Warning: Some of these videos might have objectionable language, racist tones, and threatening behavior.  

I have a handful of videos queued up to review before I list them here. Bear with me as I upload them.

Asian Civil Rights Coming Soon

Indian Civil Rights Coming Soon

Indigenous American Civil Rights Coming Soon

Eastern European Civil Rights Coming Soon

Irish Civil Rights Coming Soon

USA CounterCultures of the 1960s

• The Emergence of a Counterculture (pdf)

• Future Shock Documentary (1972) (video, 50 mins)

• Old Commercials That Would Be "Politically Incorrect" Today (Video, 15 mins)(Rate R)

• Counterculture of the 1950s-1960s (website with videos). For this link, specifically the Beatniks & Hippies video portions

Anti-War Hippie Movement (USA)

• Soldier Reveals What He Saw In Vietnam (video, 15 mins)

• 1960s Vietnam War, US Soldier Captured (video, 10 mins)

• Johnny Get Your Gun (anti-war movie, 1960s) (Video 2 hours)

Love-in Hippie Movement 

• Summer of Love (Video, 8 mins)

• Late 1960s, early 1970s Teenage Girl Groupie Doesn't Want to go Home (video, 9 mins)

Women's Rights (USA circa 1960-70s)

• The Fight For Women's Rights (video, 7 mins)

• ​​I Love Lucy (TV Show) (Women's Rights) (video clip, 3 mins)

• 'Submitting to my husband' Tradwife movement(6 mins, YouTube)

• Lucy and Host go to battle over inappropriate touching (TikTok, 3 mins)

• Leave It To Beaver (video clip, 1 min)

• When voting rights didn't protect all women (video, 7 mins)

• 19th Amendment Myths (article)

• Equal pay - Women's liberation (video clip, 3 mins)

Hispanic Chicano Civil Rights (USA)

• Rage Against the Machine Zack de la Rocha Interview 1997 (video, 6 mins)

• How a 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement (video, 12 mins) (S)

Life in a Gang (USA)

• 1980s Blood Gang members interview (video, 3 mins)

• Inside Portland's Turf War Between Proud Boys and Local Antifascists (video, 4 mins)

• Life as a Gang Member | Inside the Crip Sets of Houston (YouTube, 30 mins) (S)

• How 9 Gangs And Mafias Actually Work — From The Crips To Hells Angels (YouTube, 30 mins)

Social Classes in America circa 1950s

• Social Class in America? (1957) (Video, 4 mins)

  • The ideal American dream was never an objective ideal, but rather a social construct designed to achieve a particular social goal. As the video description so accurately stated, “This film was produced to explain basic concepts of sociology, but ends up presenting a rather dark view of social class and mobility in America.”

South African Civil Rights Movement

• 1957 High School Debate. Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana & South Africa. Prejudice (video, 20 mins)

• Reflecting on the Anti-Apartheid Movement: South African & U.S. Perspectives (YouTube, 90 mins)

• US Anti-Apartheid Movement Helped Bring Change to South Africa (YouTube, 4 mins)

• Apartheid in South Africa - Documentary on Racism | Interviews with Black & Afrikaner Leaders (1957) (YouTube, 33 mins)

African American Civil Rights Movement (USA)

• “Minorities: What’s A Minority? ” 1972 (Video, 10 mins) (S)

• Separate But Equal Making a Comeback? (Video, 3 mins)

• Frustrated Man Demanded Americans Keep Their Word (Video, 5 mins)

• Lester Maddox and Jim Brown Get Into Heated Debate on Segregation (video, 12mins)

• Charles Barkley: Our black youth are brainwashed (video, 4 mins) (S)

• All the Way Home (1957) (video, 30 mins)

• Paul Robeson: On colonialism, African-American rights (video clip, 3 mins)

• Eartha Kitt Speaks To The House: Eartha Kitt vs. LBJ (Video, 10 mins)

• The March 1963 (video, 30 mins)

• How a Lunch Counter Sit-In Became an Iconic Civil Rights Moment (video, 7 mins)

Arab & MIddle Eastern CIvil Rights Movements & Conflicts

• Social Experiment - Kurd Talks (YouTube, 25 mins)

• (circa 2010) Anti-Muslim ranters ganged up on a Muslim man at a town hall meeting (YouTube, 5 mins)

• 1979: Iranian Revolution: Women Protest Against Compulsory Hijab (YouTube, 2 mins) (S)

• Mahsa Amini: Women in Iran burn headscarves in anti-hijab protests (2022) (YouTube, 2 mins)

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