“Finishing the Dream” www.nbclearn.com/finishingthedream is a new, free online video series for teachers, students, and parents bringing the civil rights movement to life so that students can see what actually happened and hear and see the people who actually participated in the movement. Some details:

• Free online video resource • Chronicles 60 years of the Civil Rights movement • More than 100 stories from the NBC News archives • Includes events as they happened as well as retrospectives which allow students to see and understand the impact of history.
• Grouped into 10 thematic collections to explore the movement from different perspectives, such as political, legal, sociological, and personal. • Embeddable video widget is available and will be updated monthly with new video content • Offered by NBC Learn in conjunction with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation • Includes the most significant moments of the movement, such as the Montgomery bus boycott, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, the Freedom Riders, and original documentaries featuring ordinary people, like Rosa Parks who risked their lives to fight for equality.