External Web Sites
Brother
Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, from PBS
The site includes resources about the civil-rights activist
Bayard Rustin.
Brown v. Board of Education
National Historic Site
The site consists of the Monroe Elementary School, one
of the four segregated elementary schools for African-American
children in Topeka, and the adjacent grounds.
Citizen King,
from PBS
Citizen King explores the last five years in Martin Luther
King Jr.'s life by drawing on the personal recollections
and eyewitness accounts of friends, movement associates,
journalists, law enforcement officers, and historians to
illuminate this little-known chapter in the story of America's
most important and influential moral leader. The site includes
a timeline, maps, and a teacher's guide.
Civil Rights
Digital Library
The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding
of the Civil Rights Movement by helping users discover primary
sources and other educational materials from libraries,
archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a
national scale.
Civil
Rights Documentation Project Web site, from the Dirksen Congressional
Center
The Civil Rights Documentation Project provides an accounting
of law-making based on the unique archival resources housed
at The Dirksen Congressional Center. The project takes the
form of an interactive, Web-based presentation with links
to more than 100 digitized historical materials and other
Internet-based resources about civil-rights legislation
created by museums, historical societies, and government
agencies.
Civil Rights
Documentation Project, from the University of Southern Mississippi
This project from the University of Mississippi includes
an excellent oral history bibliography and Civil Rights
timeline. Transcripts and some audio files of the oral histories
are provided. The interviews are indexed by subject, interviewee,
and collection/archive.
The
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive, from University
of Southern Mississippi
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible,
fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare
and unique library and archival resources on race relations
in Mississippi.
Civil
Rights Oral History Interviews provided by Washington State
University
This site focuses on Washington state residents with ties
to the Civil Rights Movement. Includes an interview with
Flip Schulke, who photographed James Meredith’s (University
of Mississippi’s first African American student) first
day at the University of Mississippi, and other interviews
with participants in the movement.
February
One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Independent
Lens film about four college students who, in 1960, "began
a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in a small city
in North Carolina. The act of simply sitting down to order
food in a restaurant that refused service to anyone but
whites is now widely regarded as one of the pivotal moments
in the American Civil Rights Movement." Features biographies,
photos, related links, and lesson plans.
Freedom Never Dies:
The Legacy of Harry T. Moore
Devoted to "one of the forerunners of the civil rights
movement in America," who "did groundbreaking
work in Florida [during the 1930s and 40s] in registering
African American voters, investigating lynchings and police
brutality, and fighting for equal education for blacks and
whites." Includes letters from the NAACP organizer,
a timeline (1896-1968), teacher's guide, interactive map,
comments on Moore's legacy, and investigations of his unsolved
murder.
Henry
Ford Museum: Rosa Parks Bus
This site includes information about Rosa Parks and the
story behind the bus in which she made history.
Historical
Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights,
from the University of Maryland School of Law
The Thurgood Marshall Library at the University of Maryland
has worked since 2001 to create a complete electronic record
of United States Commission on Civil Rights publications
held in the Library's collection and available on the USCCR
Web site. The publications are made available over the Internet
as page image presentations in PDF format. Each item is
linked to the appropriate bibliographic record in the Catalog.
Publications are also searchable by keyword and accessible
by date and title.
The King Center
This site provides links to information about Martin Luther
King Jr., as well as a complete transcript of the MLK assassination
conspiracy trial.
The
Legacy of Medgar Evers, from National Public Radio (NPR)
This site for a radio show includes information about the
legacy of the 1963 murder of Mississippi civil-rights leader
Medgar Evers. The story notes that "once the leader
in the number of lynchings in America, today Mississippi
leads in the number of elected black officials." Includes
audio of the show, Evers speaking, and the "Ballad
of Medgar Evers," sung by the SNCC (Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee) Freedom Singers. Also includes links
to related material.
Lest
We Forget: Images From the Civil Rights Movement
Collection of portraits by twentieth-century artist Robert
Templeton of leaders involved in the American Civil Rights
movement. Features briefly annotated images of more than
two dozen individuals such as Frederick Douglass, Booker
T. Washington, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm
X, and Whitney Moore Young Jr. Also includes links to related
sites.
Little Rock Nine
This site is devoted to the history of a landmark event
in the history of school integration in the American South.
In 1957, nine African-American high-school students were
the first to enroll in the all-white Central High School
in Little Rock, Arkansas. Fearing an explosion of violence,
President Eisenhower ordered that troops of the National
Guard be brought in to protect the students. The site contains
photos, videos, and newspaper articles of the time, as well
as an update on the nine students and coverage of the dedication
of the Central High Visitor Center on the fortieth anniversary
of the historic events.
Looking
Back - Brown v. Board of Education, from National Public Radio
(NPR)
In a series of stories, NPR explores the high court's decision
and its repercussions.
The Malcolm
X Project at Columbia University
Since its inception in 2001, the Malcolm X Project at Columbia
University has been concerned primarily with gathering and
illuminating new research about El Hajj Malik el-Shabazz
through two major initiatives: 1) the construction of a
robust, web-based, multimedia version of The Autobiography
of Malcolm X, and 2) the research and development of a biography
of Malcolm X written by Dr. Manning Marable, the project’s
director.
Martin Luther
King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, from the Seattle
Times
The Seattle Times presents an excellent collection of essays,
sound clips, and photographs, as well as reflections from
people who knew the civil-rights leader.
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Newspaper Archive
A searchable archive of thousands of newspapers articles
about Martin Luther King Jr., whose strong hope for social
change never swerved from his belief in nonviolence. Also
includes a timeline, a brief biography, and links to related
sites. Some of the newspaper articles are fee-based.
Martin Luther
King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
The King Papers Project, initiated by the King Center
for Nonviolent Social Change, has been developed to host
a definitive collection of King's most significant correspondence,
sermons, speeches, and unpublished manuscripts.
The Murder of
Emmett Till, from PBS
The site includes information about the killing of Emmett
Till that mobilized the Civil Rights Movement.
National
Museum of American History: Separate Is Not Equal, Brown v.
Board of Education
This exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of
the landmark Brown v. Board of Education judicial
case.
The Official
Web Site of Malcolm X
The site has everything you want to know about this historical
figure. Read his biography and read inspirational quotes
from this talented speaker. Browse the photo gallery for
pictures of Malcolm X throughout his life!
Oh
Freedom Over Me
Like the 2000 American Radio Works series on which it is
based, this site documents the events of the 1964 "Freedom
Summer" voter-registration drive in Mississippi. Read
or listen to transcripts from the series and interviews
with Freedom Summer alumni, or click through the slideshow.
Remembering
Jim Crow
This 2001 American Radio Works documentary covers the
pre-civil rights Jim Crow South. It is a mix of history,
first-person narratives, slideshows, and reference material
that draws heavily from "Behind the Veil," the
oral history project from Duke University's Center for Documentary
Studies.
Reporting
Civil Rights
The site presents the reporters and journalism of the American
Civil Rights movement. Find writer profiles, a timeline
for 1941 through 1973, and "Perspectives on Reporting,"
which features personal recollections from reporters active
in that era. A companion to the two-volume set from the
Library of America, Reporting Civil Rights.
The Rise and Fall
of Jim Crow
The four-part PBS documentary explores the "crushing
subordination" for Southern blacks in an exploration
of racial segregation from the end of slavery to the beginning
of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
SNCC 1960-1966:
Six Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Covers the first six years of the organization's history,
presenting its stand and activities on nonviolence, the
Vietnam War, white liberalism, feminism, and Black Power.
Also find profiles of prominent members John Lewis, Julian
Bond, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, Ella Baker, and Stokeley
Carmichael, and information on events (sit-ins, Freedom
Rides, the Freedom Ballot, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic
Party, and the 1963 March on Washington). Includes a timeline
and sound files.
Teaching
With Documents: Beyond the Playing Field - Jackie Robinson,
Civil Rights Advocate, from the National Arhives and Records
Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration holds
numerous records relating to Jackie Robinson, many of which
pertain to his period of civil-rights advocacy. Several
belonging to that time have been reproduced on the site
for educators teaching courses that involve civil-rights
events and issues, character education, and effective citizenship
skills.
Television
News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970, from the University
of Virginia
The project aims to collect, digitize, and present television
news footage from the period in streaming video format and
to make these valuable materials available to scholars,
teachers, and students. The project is currently a research
work in progress.
Toward Racial
Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874
Text and Imagery taken from Harper's Weekly dating
from 1857-74 on the subjects of the Civil War, slavery,
Reconstruction, and culture and society. Some of the information
here relates to the later Civil Rights Movement. There is
also a link to information about the nineteenth century
Ku Klux Klan hearings.
Troy
University: Rosa Parks Library and Museum
The site includes information about the life of Rosa Parks
and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
U.S.
Census Bureau Facts for Features: Civil Rights Act of 1964:
40th Anniversary
Facts and statistics compiled in honor of the signing of
the "landmark law [that] prohibits racial discrimination
in public accommodations, publicly owned or operated facilities,
employment and union membership, and voter registration."
Compares data from 1964 and 2002 in areas such as black
elected officials, college students and graduates, and income
and poverty. Includes audio files.
University
of Michigan Library's Brown v. Board of Education Digital
Archive
This archive contains documents and images that chronicle
events surrounding this historically significant case up
to the present.
Unseen. Unforgotten,
from the Birmingham News
Dozens of previously unpublished photographs from the Civil
Rights era, located in 2006 in a storage closet at the Birmingham
(Alabama) News. Organized by theme (such as the
Freedom Riders, school desegregation, and voting rights)
and year. Includes captions from the photo files.
Voices of Civil
Rights
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library
of Congress have teamed up to collect and preserve personal
accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of
equality for all. Share your story and explore this site,
a tribute to those who were a part of the civil-rights experience
and to the continuing quest for equality.
We
Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement,
from the National Park Service
This site includes background information on the civil
rights movement plus photographs of important events and
more than forty significant historical sites.
Whitney
M. Young Jr.: Little Known Civil Rights Pioneer, from the
U.S. Department of Defense
This article describes Whitney M. Young, Jr.'s contributions
to the civil rights movement and his role in making life
better for African Americans in the armed forces. Includes
biographical material about Young, who was a member of a
segregated U.S. Army during World War II, president of the
National Urban League, and 1968 recipient of the Medal of
Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award.
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