Desegregation Additional Resources
Website
Counter Histories
Counter Histories is a stunning website on the lunch counter sit-ins, bringing the history to life with historic film clips, interviews with movement veterans and historians, and timelines.
FILM
Freedom Song
Inspired by accounts of the women and men on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement, Freedom Song chronicles a family nearly torn apart by the impact of the movement on a small Mississippi town. Based on the actual history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), student activism, and voter registration in McComb, Mississippi, during the Civil Rights Movement.
FILM
Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968
A documentary film that brings to light the story of the attack by state police on a demonstration in Orangeburg, South Carolina — leaving three students killed and 28 injured.
Film
The Road to Brown
The Road to Brown tells the story of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling as the culmination of a brilliant legal assault on segregation that launched the Civil Rights Movement. It is also a moving and long overdue tribute to a visionary but little known African American lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, “the man who killed Jim Crow.”
Film
Mighty Times: The Children’s March
This Academy Award-winning documentary film tells the story of how the young people of Birmingham braved arrest, fire hoses, and police dogs in 1963 and brought segregation to its knees.