Ethnic Studies Collection

This collection contains more than 40 videos with accompanying lesson plans and activities that help students connect ethnic studies to today’s current events.

How a 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement

Dictators and Civil Wars: The Cold War in Latin America

How Prop. 187 Transformed the Immigration Debate and California Politics

How Today’s Debates on Immigration Were Shaped by a 1980s Church-Led Refugee Network

Coronavirus Reignites a Fight Over Rights of Detained Migrant Children

Cold War in Latin America Collection

The Crime That Fueled an Asian American Civil Rights Movement

How a 1944 Supreme Court Ruling on Internment Camps Led to a Reckoning

How the U.S. Has Treated Wartime Refugees

Why the Supreme Court Endorsed, Then Limited Affirmative Action

American Samoa Dodged a Pandemic in 1918. Here’s What We Learned.

Xenophobia in the Age of COVID-19

The 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz Was a Catalyst for Indigenous Activism

In the Long Fight to Protect Native American Families, a Law Stands Guard

Forced into Federal Boarding Schools as Children, Native Americans Confront the Past

Beyond the Battlefield: Double V and Black Americans’ Fight for Equality

Why Are Schools Still Segregated? The Broken Promise of Brown v. Board of Education

Ida B. Wells and the Long Crusade to Outlaw Lynching

Whites-Only Suburbs: How the New Deal Shut Out Black Homebuyers

A New Housing Program to Fight Poverty has an Unexpected History

Shirley Chisholm Was a Trailblazer for Change

How Segregation Influenced Evangelical Political Activism

Combating the Myth of the Superpredator

Operation Ceasefire: Inside a Community’s Radical Approach to Gang Violence

Poll Watchers and the Long History of Voter Intimidation

Burden of Richmond Evictions Weighs Heaviest in Black Neighborhoods

Louis Armstrong and the Black Celebrity’s Dilemma

How Geography Drive MLK’s Fight for a Ferry in Alabama

Racial Inequality Was Tearing the U.S. Apart, a 1968 Report Warned. It Was Ignored.

The Birth of Free Agency

How Black Women Fought Racism and Sexism for the Right to Vote

Bringing Black Midwifery Back to Black Mothers

How a Standoff with the Black Panthers Fueled the Rise of SWAT

Midterm Elections: 1966 Midterms Signal a Realignment, Shaping Today’s Parties

Lessons from the 2004 Democratic Convention: Obama’s Speech

Racial Health Disparities Didn’t Start With Covid: The Overlooked History of Polio

Athletes vs. Injustice: Protests in Sports

What Jesse Owens’s Story Tells Us About Sports and Politics

Black Swimmers Overcome Racism and Fear, Reclaiming a Tradition

American Reckoning (Full Film)

American Reckoning: The Bombing (Excerpt)

American Reckoning: Black Resistance (Excerpt)

American Reckoning: The Boycott (Excerpt)

American Reckoning: The Legacy (Excerpt)

Trump Administration Sued for Torpedoing Enforcement on Landmark Housing Law

Fair Housing