I played this video for my American Government class yesterday and I could not help notice the mention of slavery throughout the speech.  I teach a lengthy unit on Slavery and Civil Rights during my first semester of American History and one of the things I try to convey is the continued effects on the African-American community after the end of physical slavery following the war.  Many of the things he said in his short history in the speech mirror what I try to teach my students about the effects of events in history.  Maybe all of my talk about Multicausational-Multidimensional History made some sense for some of my students.

I have not shown it to my American History classes yet, and I wonder if it would allow for some connections to be made with what they have already learned?