SOUNDS OF FREEDOM
Slavery and Emancipation:
Voices from the Days of Slavery at American Folklife Center
Interview with Irene Williams
Interview with Wallace Quarterman
Civil Rights
Malcolm X: “Message to the Grassroots”
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I Have A Dream”
Fannie Lou Hamer: “Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention on August 22, 1964 in Atlantic City, NJ.”
Women’s Equality
Interview with Sarah Weddington, Roe v. Wade Attorney
PBS Presents POV Featuring Shirley Chisholm
First Amendment:
ACLU interview and poetry slam with Sekou the
misfit and Steve Connell
Workers’ Rights:
Labor Songs at labor-studies.org
Gay Rights:
New York Times: A Video Report on Gay and Lesbian homeless youth
Queer Cultural Center Presents Audio and Video of GLBTQ Academics, Performers and Activists
Westward Expansion:
Thinking about a Pioneer Experience: Play Oregon Trail
Four Freedoms:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: “Four Freedoms”
Eleanor Roosevelt: “Address to the United Nations General Assembly: On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”
World War II:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: “Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation”
Elie Wiesel: “The Perils of Indifference”
Frank Capra’s 1940s Film: “Why We Fight: Prelude to War”
Cold War:
John F. Kennedy: “Ich Bin Ein Berliner”
John F. Kennedy: “Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation”
Civil Defense Films at the Prelinger Archives
Education:
John F. Kennedy: “Civil Rights Address” upon the admission of black students to Alabama University
Freedom Riders:
PBS Presents “Eyes on the Prize”
Video of Freedom Riders telling their stories
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