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Race in US History

Democratic Party Platform of Pike County, Alabama (1874)

As the 1874 campaign for governor and state legislature began in Alabama, the Pike County Democratic Party’s platform gave supporters this guidance for how to treat white Republicans.

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Justice & Human Rights

Eleanor Roosevelt (American Experience)

For more than thirty years, Eleanor Roosevelt was America’s most powerful and influential woman. Through interviews and rare home movie footage, this film reveals her hidden dimensions.

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Race in US History

Election Day in Clinton, Mississippi (1875)

State Senator Charles Caldwell was a former slave who had led a company of African American soldiers, earlier in 1875, in a state militia formed to protect freedpeople from the White Line. The militia was later disbanded by the governor as part of a “peace agreement” with the White Line, but attacks and intimidation continued, and Caldwell himself was assassinated later that year. Eugene Welborne, who served as Caldwell’s first lieutenant in the militia, gave this account of election day in November 1875 in Clinton, Mississippi, and Caldwell’s efforts to ensure a fair vote.

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Race in US History

Election Violence in Mississippi (1875)

Robert Gleeds, an African American candidate for sheriff in Lowndes County, Mississippi, describes the violence in his county that occurred on the eve of the 1875 election.

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Global Immigration

Ellis Island

Immigrants of every background recall their extraordinary adventures, from the treacherous passage across the sea to the start of a new life in a new land.

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Race in US History

Eugenics, Race, and Marriage

Learn about the case of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, who were prosecuted because they violated a Virginia law banning interracial couples from marrying.

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Race in US History

Eyes on the Prize Study Guide

This guide provides a framework for using the landmark documentary film Eyes on the Prize as a tool for teaching the civil rights movement.

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Race in US History

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement

A comprehensive television documentary about the American Civil Rights Movement, utilizing rare historical film and present-day interviews.

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Race & Membership/Eugenics
Race in US History

Family Name

Filmmaker Macky Alston searches for a connection between his own family and two African American families with the same last name. The families trace their ancestors to the same plantation.

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Race & Membership/Eugenics
Race in US History

Family Name Study Guide

Explore identity and race through an award-winning documentary about one man's efforts to uncover the history of three families that share his last name.

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Race in US History
Justice & Human Rights

Farewell to Manzanar

Uprooted from their home, Seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family were sent to live at Manzanar internment camp with ten thousand other Japanese Americans in 1942.

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Global Immigration

Farmingville

In Farmingville, New York, tensions rise in the community after an influx of Mexican immigrants move there for work, which ultimately results in vicious hate crimes.

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