Know your rights during police encounters.

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American/Canadian middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted of murder and...

The phase of the movement between 1955 and 1968, particularly in the South. The emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from...

Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 -- August 22, 1989) was an African-American political and urban activist who, along with Bobby Seale,...

Klansville KKK - The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights (Full Documentary)

More than 20000 Native Americans fought in the Civil War.

The program featured a clip from the PBS documentary "Death and the Civil War," produced by Burns and based upon Faust's book "This Republic of...

America was changing rapidly in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of those changes. Civil Rights were dominant, but the 60s...

In the spring of 1961, black and white civil rights activists rode buses to protest the segregationist policies of the Deep South (Marian Holmes,...

As the American Civil Rights Movement successfully challenged legal segregation, it also created a cultural shift that transformed American music,...

A winning documentary viewed at the National History Day competition in Washington D.C. It tells the story of the Children's March, the bombing of...

John Green teaches you about the early days of the Civil Rights movement. By way of providing context for this, John also talks a bit about wider...