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Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March PBS LearningMedia Collection

Explore the fight against Asian American hate following the March 2021 mass shootings at three spas in Atlanta. Examine how this critical moment of racial reckoning sheds light on the struggles, triumphs and achievements of AAPI communities.

This collection also includes resources from the Exploring Hate series be/longing: Asian Americans Now. The series profiles Asian American trailblazers from across the country in five stories of belonging and exclusion; resilience and hope; and solidarity in the face of hate.

The National Association of School Psychologists offers tips and related resources to help educators meet the unique needs of AAPI students and their families in K–12 settings, which may be helpful to review before introducing this material to your students.

Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March Collection

American Experience: Women in American History On-Demand

Women lead advancements in science, technology, politics, sports and activism—often fighting against inequity and opposition at every turn.

In this American Experience: Women in American History collection, explore films, interviews, articles, image galleries and more for an in-depth look at notable female figures in American history.

The American Experience Women’s Collection on PBS LearningMedia includes great short video clips and lessons for the classroom. (Grades 8-12)

More Women's History Resources

The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights On-Demand

The Niagara Movement | The Early Battle for Civil Rights explores the Black elite and intellectual society at the turn of the 20th century, a class rarely presented. It examines the heated debate and conflict between W.E.B DuBois and William Monroe Trotter with Booker T. Washington on how to best uplift the race and secure equality for their community.

The Niagara Movement PBS LearningMedia Collection: Explore Video Shorts and Lessons

About the Film:

The Niagara Movement: the Early Battle for Civil Rights, a powerful hour-long documentary by WNED PBS, delves deep into the movement’s pivotal role in shaping the civil rights landscape. The documentary explores the Black elite and intellectual society at the turn of the 20th century and examines the heated debate and conflict W.E.B DuBois and William Monroe Trotter had with Booker T. Washington on how to best uplift the race and secure equality for Black Americans. 

In July 1905, a group of 29 men, including Black intellectuals, clergy, writers, newspapermen, and activists, was formed and led by a young sociologist, W.E.B. DuBois. The group adopted the resolutions which lead to the founding of the Niagara Movement. Its Declaration of Principles stated, in part: “We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the Negro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression, and apologetic before insults.” 

The Niagara Movement was, in large part, a repudiation of the methods of Booker T.  Washington, the unchallenged leader of Black liberation at the time. This was a time of widespread violence against Black Americans, as the end of Reconstruction brought oppressive Jim Crow laws and widespread lynching. How were Black Americans to respond to this oppression? Washington argued that the progress for Black Americans depended on practical but limited education – that legitimate protest against white supremacy would only make things worse, and that rights were secondary to survival. The formation of the Niagara Movement was a counter-movement: a national group dedicated to accepting nothing less than full civil rights. 

Although the Movement was disbanded only four years after its inception, its impact and legacy have proven long-lasting. The Niagara Movement was a critical turning point in fighting inequality and it laid the cornerstone of the modern American Civil Rights Movement. Its influence and legacy are wide: it changed the tone and approach to Black protest in America, it created tactics, such as fighting in the courts for integration, that would be used by the NAACP, and it influenced the ideology of both the “black power” movement of the 1960s and the Black Lives Matter movement of the 21st century. 

Native America PBS Playlist

Season 2 of Native America. is a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Indian Country. This four-part Native directed series reveals the beauty and power of today’s Indigenous world. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a better 21st century. 

Resources from the program include:

The Native America PBS Film Website

Native America PBS Player Series

Explore an Interactive to Listen to Native American Voices

Explore the PBS LearningMedia Collection

Also See: Native America in the Classroom

American Buffalo PBS LearningMedia Collection

The American Buffalo PBS LearningMedia Collection is created from the two-part, four-hour film takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the American buffalo’s evolution, its significance to the Indigenous people and landscape of the Great Plains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring the magnificent mammals back from the brink.

To support conversation and instruction, WXXI Education has pulled together a list of educational resources available through PBS LearningMedia:

Veterans Connections PBS LearningMedia Collections & Military Families Resources

These videos, images, and media-rich lesson plans are from PBS LearningMedia New York , a service of WXXI Public Broadcasting in partnership with the NY State Public Media stations and PBS. This collection of resources will allow educators to bring stories from the battlefront into American history, world history, and health classrooms. They will also help students to better understand veterans and their contributions.

Explore the similarities and differences in veterans’ memories of World War II and Vietnam to uncover how these wars shaped American culture. Analyze artifacts and oral histories that reveal important experiences of a nation during times of conflict. Use recent veterans’ personal stories to engage in a discussion of how the choice to become a soldier and the experience of serving relate to personal values and goals. You will find content in the Experiencing War, World War II, Vietnam War, and Iraq & Afghanistan sub-collections.

Note: Please preview all media for age appropriateness before using it with students. See grade level recommendations on media listings and cautionary notes for guidance.

Experiencing War 

Returning From War

Commemorating War

Analyzing War

        By War:

Military Families from PBS NewsHour Extra Students Reporting Lab  for Grades 7-12: Students reflect on their experience as children in a military family.

Sesame Street Resources for Military Families

Taking Care of Us: A Guide to Help Military Caregiving Families Grow in Emotional Well-Being

Suffrage Moments Educational Resource:

In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, acclaimed American soprano and  WXXI Classical host Kearstin Piper Brown takes listeners on a journey through women’s suffrage with these one minute features. Join Kearstin as she looks at aspects of the Suffrage Movement, from the Seneca Falls Convention and the National Woman’s Party to the various anti-suffrage efforts and the arrest of Susan B. Anthony. 

Listen On-Demand:

LISTEN ON-DEMAND & READ ARTICLES  SUFFRAGE MOMENTS AT WXXI CLASSICAL website

Anti-Suffrage Efforts

Opposition to Women’s Suffrage

Susan B. Anthony Arrested

Seneca Falls Convention

The Turning Tide

The Meaning of Suffrage

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony House

The National American Woman Suffrage Association

The National Women’s Party

The Nineteenth Amendment

New York State’s Role in Suffrage

Unstoppable The Road to Womens’ Rights E-Fieldtrip:

Take an e-learning field trip through history: Unstoppable: The Road to Women’s Rights to learn about the suffrage movement. elected. Additional Resources available in PBS LearningMedia UnStoppable collection 

Watch On-Demand:

This interactive live-streamed educational event focuses on the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the struggle for Women’s Equality and the role of Women in politics today. Unstoppable brings the history of the Women’s Suffrage Movement and its impact on resulting legislation to the classroom. Watch this e-field trip through history on-demand as we chart the path from the hundreds of women that tried casting votes before it was legal to the hundreds of women that make up the most diverse Congress ever elected. Also available in PBS LearningMedia UnStoppable collection  Access Connected Learning Resources (from APTV)

Description: Unstoppable follows two young hosts as they visit Seneca Falls, NY, and Washington, D.C., to learn about the women that came before them in the fight for women’s rights. We begin with The Road to Suffrage, where we visit the site of the Seneca Falls Convention, which took place in July 1848. Here we learn about the establishment of suffrage groups and the fallout and disagreements around the 15th Amendment, the Women’s Voting Rights Amendment and the fights for racial and gender equality. Our hosts will also explore civic engagement today with 1st Amendment 1st Vote at the site of the first women’s rights convention in the United States. Next we visit Washington, D.C., and, with the help of the White House Historical Association, place ourselves in the exact location that suffragists gathered to protest in support of the passage of the 19th Amendment. We examine the constitutional arguments and final push leading to passage of the 19th Amendment by the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and its ratification by the states in August 1920. Lastly, we tour the U.S. Capitol building with Congresswomen Terri Sewell to discuss Women in Politics and where we stand today. During the live interactive segments, the audience will have the opportunity to interact with Coline Jenkins, author and great-great-granddaughter of women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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