From a longer video about the civil rights movement, this segment shows how informal practices of racial discrimination were written into law. 2:26 minutes
From a longer film called "Let Freedom Ring: Moments from the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965," this segment is about desegregation at Little Rock's Central High School. 11:11 minutes.
From a longer film on minority health. 1:54 minutes.
Books
Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Call Number: E184 .A1 B597 2014
ISBN: 9781442220553
Publication Date: 2013
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for and ultimately justify racial inequalities.
Plessy V. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America by Williamjames Hoffer
Call Number: KF223 .P56 H64 2012
ISBN: 9780700618460
Publication Date: 2012
Hoffer's readable study synthesizes past work on this landmark case, while also shedding new light on its proceedings and often-neglected historical contexts.
In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark by Martha Minow
Call Number: KF4155 .M56 2010
ISBN: 9780195171525
Publication Date: 2010
What is the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education? An elegant and concise overview of Brown and its aftermath, In Brown's Wake explores the broad-ranging and often surprising impact of one of the century's most important Supreme Court decisions.
Jim Crow America: A Documentary History by Catherine M. Lewis & J. Richard Lewis, eds.
Call Number: E185.61 .J527 2009
ISBN: 9781557288943
Publication Date: 2009
This is a resource on racism and segregation in American life. The book is chronologically organized into five sections, each of which focuses on a different historical period in the story of Jim Crow: inventing, building, living, resisting, and dismantling.