- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Title:
- Burke Marshall
- Contributor to Resource:
- Eyes on the Prize (PBS)
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Libraries. Special Collections
Teacher's Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
Marshall, Burke, 1922- - Publisher:
- Henry Hampton Collection, Washington University Libraries, Saint Louis, Missouri.
- Date of Original:
- 1961/1962
- Subject:
- Attorneys general--United States
African Americans--Segregation
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--United States
African American college students--Mississippi
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Violence against
Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights demonstrations--Southern States
Sit-ins--Southern States
Direct action--United States
Segregation
Discrimination in public accommodations--Southern States
Minorities--Education
Intimidation--Mississippi
United States--Race relations
Interstate Commerce Commission (U.S.)
Alabama National Guard
Children's Crusade, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
Project C, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
Freedom Rides, 1961
University of Mississippi
Eyes on the Prize (Television program)
College integration--Mississippi--Oxford
United States. Dept. of Justice. Civil Rights Division
Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
Government, Resistance to--Southern States
Federal state controversies--Southern States
Federal-city relations--Southern States - People:
- Marshall, Burke, 1922-2003
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Meredith, James, 1933- --Trials, litigation, etc.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- instructional materials
interviews
resource units
teaching guides
transcripts - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Instructional Web page recommended for grades nine through twelve featuring a transcript of an "Eyes on the Prize" interview with former assistant attorney general Burke Marshall. As an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Burke Marshall played a key role in the federal government's efforts to desegregate the South. Representing the presidential administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, Marshall mediated conflicts between civil rights protesters and southern white officials. In this interview, Marshall recalls the 1961 Freedom Rides and the 1962 desegregation of the University of Mississippi.
Includes a background essay, discussion questions, and alignments to teaching standards.
Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute.
Grade range: 9-12.
Lesson plans using this resource: Re-Examining Brown.
Transcript of an interview.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.marshall/
- Rights Holder:
- The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis.
- Extent:
- text/pdf
80.3 Kb - Contributing Institution:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Rights:
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