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History: I have a Dream

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The American Civil Rights Movement - A Video Playlist

A series of 12 YouTube videos about the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Find out more about the Little Rock 9, the Montgomery bus boycott, Rosa Parks and the Freedom Riders. Listen to Martin Luther King, Jnr.'s rousing, 'I have a dream' speech and protest songs of the era.

  1. Civil rights and the 1950s by John Green (11:58)
  2. The Freedom Riders history by The Smithsonian magazine (5:05)
  3. The Little Rock 9 - Arkansas 1957 by Mr Green (9:57)
  4. The story of Rosa Parks by Allison Lee (13:12)
  5. Horrible Histories Rosa Parks (3:01)
  6. The Montgomery bus boycott by Angalene (7:13)
  7. Birmingham 1963 by American History Rules (4:23)
  8. No more : the children of Birmingham 1963 by Miranda Jessop (10:01)
  9. Martin Luther King - I have a dream speech - August 28, 1963 (17:29)
  10. The death of Martin Luther King by The I files (9:17)
  11. President John f. Kennedy's Civil Rights Address by C-SPAN (13:24)
  12. Finding a new communal black voice : freedom songs of the civil rights movement by Hope Doucet (15:01)

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