Democracy and Citizenship

Illustrated Concepts, Facts, and Figures

• Responsiveness in Democracy

• The American Dream

Audio Features

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream", 1963 [Excerpts] (7:27)

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963 [Excerpt] (1:27)

Video Features

• Citizenship and the Constitution (Gretchen Ritter - 6:45)

• Civil Rights Protest in Montgomery, AL, 1960 (1:17)

• Erosion of Civil Liberties (Barbara Jordan - 22:22)

• Johnson Pushed Passage of the Voting Rights Act (1:39)

• Martin Luther King, 1960 (1:12)

• Political Change in Democratic Politics: The Case of the Nazi Contagion in Weimar Germany (Walter Dean Burnham - 7:58)

• Wallace Opposed Desegregation and Lost (1:28)

• What is the Meaning of Nationhood in America? (Barbara Jordan - 8:08)

• Women, Citizenship, and the Constitution (Gretchen Ritter - 3:31)

Cartoon Features

• Women's Suffrage (1916)

Image Features

• Democracy Groups

• Immigration

• Influential Democratic Theorists

• Native Americans Granted Citizenship (1924)

• Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• The 13th Amendment (1865)

• The 14th Amendment (1868)

• The 15th Amendment (1870)

• The 19th Amendment (1920)

• The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

• The Indian Citizenship Act (1924)

• The Voting Rights Act (1965)

• Town Hall Meetings

• Women's Rights Protests

Web Resources

Glossary