Civil Rights in the United States
This playlist brings together thirteen courses that explore the history of civil rights in the United States, from the development of the transatlantic slave trade in the late fifteenth century to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.
What this playlist includes:
89 lectures across 14 courses.
All resources designed and delivered by university academics and researchers.
Courses and Lectures
1. The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1480-1850
Dr Toby Green
King's College London
King's College London
1.1. West African Societies Before European Contact – 07:23
1.2. Why Africa? – 10:26
1.3. Involvement of the English – 10:00
1.4. Reaction of West Africans to the Slave Trade – 10:52
1.5. Historiography of the Slave Trade – 09:41
2. US History – Slavery, 1500-1865
Prof. Tim Lockley
Warwick University
Warwick University
2.1. The Transatlantic Slave Trade – 05:29
2.2. The Domestic Slave Trade – 06:46
2.3. Work – 06:23
2.4. Race Relations – 07:07
2.5. Free Time – 08:26
2.6. Family – 07:18
2.7. Health and Sickness – 08:25
2.8. Religion – 06:58
2.9. Culture – 07:07
2.10. Resistance – 08:12
2.11. Revolts – 04:49
2.12. Race – 05:22
3. US History – Enslaved Women in the United States, c.1815-61
Prof. Emily West
Reading University
Reading University
3.1. Context and Methodology – 10:12
3.2. The Work of Enslaved Women – 10:57
3.3. The Family and Resistance – 15:01
3.4. Women and Slaveholder Violence – 10:06
3.5. Relationships with Slave-Owning Women – 05:48
3.6. The Civil War and Emancipation – 08:33
4. US History – Slavery and the Civil War, 1775-1865
Prof. Tim Lockley
Warwick University
Warwick University
4.1. What is Slavery? – 04:09
4.2. Slavery and the American Revolution – 05:04
4.3. Growing Pains – 05:31
4.4. Origins of the American Civil War – 04:51
4.5. Outcomes of the American Civil War – 07:32
5. US History – Civil Rights, 1865-1941
Prof. Robert Cook
Sussex University
Sussex University
5.1. Introduction – 02:53
5.2. Reconstruction and Racial Segregation, 1865-1900 – 10:50
5.3. Booker T. Washington and Racial Accommodation – 13:35
5.4. W. E. B. Du Bois, The NAACP and the First World... – 14:35
5.5. Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improveme... – 13:18
5.6. New Deal or Big Deal? – 12:56
6. US History – The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-70
Dr Tom Davies
Sussex University
Sussex University
6.1. The ‘Classical Phase’ of the Civil Rights Movement – 08:57
6.2. The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Late 1940s... – 10:46
6.3. The Grass Roots Battle for Racial Equality in t... – 09:31
6.4. Martin Luther King and the Birmingham and Selma... – 11:11
6.5. Malcolm X, Watts, and the Emergence of Black Power – 10:45
6.6. Black Power and the Changing African American F... – 11:20
7. US History – Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement, 1940-60
Prof. Charles Payne
Rutgers University
Rutgers University
7.1. Before the 1950s – 22:15
7.2. Origin Stories – 09:09
7.3. The Price of Democracy – 13:43
7.4. "Strong People Don't Need Strong Leaders" – 10:16
7.5. Conclusion – 07:34
8. US History – The Presidency of Harry Truman, 1945-53
Prof. Mark White
QMUL
QMUL
8.1. Taking the Reins – 09:23
8.2. Confronting Stalin – 09:58
8.3. A New National Security State – 11:49
8.4. McCarthyism – 12:26
8.5. Converting America from War to Peace – 10:06
9. US History – The Presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-61
Prof. Mark White
QMUL
QMUL
9.1. Rise to Power and Early Foreign Policy – 09:35
9.2. Later Foreign Policy: Vietnam, the CIA and the ... – 10:09
9.3. Civil Rights in the 1950s – 08:59
9.4. Socio-Cultural Change in the 1950s – 08:44
9.5. Eisenhower’s Legacy – 09:57
10. US History – The Presidency of John F. Kennedy, 1961-63
Prof. Mark White
QMUL
QMUL
10.1. The JFK Debate – 07:47
10.2. The Kennedy Family – 07:03
10.3. Congressman and Senator, 1946-60 – 11:01
10.4. Battling Nixon: The 1960 Presidential Election – 09:37
10.5. Early Disaster: The Bay of Pigs Invasion – 08:59
10.6. Confronting Khrushchev: The Vienna Summit and t... – 10:06
10.7. The Cuban Missile Crisis – 10:42
10.8. Civil Rights – 08:14
10.9. Vietnam – 07:13
10.10. The Character Question: JFK Behind Closed Doors – 09:18
10.11. An Image – 08:50
11. US History – Protest and Reaction in the United States, 1961-68
Dr Malcolm McLaughlin
University of East Anglia
University of East Anglia
11.1. Introduction – 10:26
11.2. How successful was Lyndon B. Johnson's Great So... – 12:08
11.3. How did the idea of "civil rights" change after... – 12:04
11.4. How did liberals respond to the demands of the ... – 12:44
11.5. Which did more to change America: the political... – 13:07
11.6. To what extent was 1968 a turning point in Amer... – 12:34
12. US History – The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-69
Dr Thomas Tunstall Allcock
Manchester University
Manchester University
12.1. Introduction – 03:35
12.2. Kennedy, Johnson and the Politics of the 1960s – 08:23
12.3. The Great Society – 09:50
12.4. The Civil Rights Movement – 11:20
12.5. The Vietnam War – 11:12
12.6. Protest, Opposition and Legacy – 08:24
13. US History – The Black Panther Party, 1966-82
Dr Joe Street
Northumbria University
Northumbria University
13.1. The Roots of the Black Panther Party – 05:13
13.2. The Ten-Point Program – 05:32
13.3. How did the Black Panthers differ from other Af... – 06:21
13.4. Patrolling the Police – 04:59
13.5. The Problem of Huey P. Newton – 06:07
13.6. The FBI and White Oppression – 07:30
14. US History – The Presidency of Richard Nixon, 1969-74
Dr Kevin Yuill
Sunderland University
Sunderland University
14.1. Nixon – More Than Just Watergate? – 06:59
14.2. The Path to Power, 1913-62 – 11:19
14.3. Nixon’s the One, 1968 – 09:28
14.4. The Presidency, 1969-70 – 08:48
14.5. The Presidency, 1971-74 – 09:22
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