THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
An Internet Hotlist on CIVIL RIGHTS

created by Marilyn Abramowitz
Mineola High School Library

Introduction | Events in the Movement | Overview of the Era | Other Black History links

Introduction
Use the library's nonfiction & Reference print resources. Check out the GALE & Grolier databases, then consult these links for additional info.

The Internet Resources

Jim Crow in America -

Events in the Movement

'I Have A Dream' - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s address on August 28, 1963 at the March on Washington (DC)
Beyond Brown : Pursuing the Promise - PBS program
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute -
Brief Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement: 1954-1965 - and related links
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas - 1954 - the landmark case against racial segregation in schools and other public places
Civil Rights Biographies: 1860-1980 - also includes issues, events & organizations
Civil Rights Timeline - and related links
Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement -
In Memory of Four Little Girls -
Little Rock Central High - 40th anniversary of an important Civil Rights event
Martin Luther King, Jr. & The Civil Rights Movement -
National Civil Rights Museum -
Powerful Days in Black & White - photos of the Civil Rights struggle
Remembering Segregation -
Reporting Civil Rights - presents the reporters & journalism of the American Civil Rights Movement, chronicling the years 1941-1973. Also, a 2 volume anthology that includes 200 newspaper & magazine reports + additional info
Rosa Parks - the Woman Who Changed a Nation -
The Civil Rights Movement - and related links
The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi -
The Civil Rights Movement: 1955-1965 -
The Malcolm X Museum -
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project -
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - PBS program
Voices of Civil Rights - archive of selected stories, essays, interviews, photos, special reports, a video + more
We Shall Overcome - historic places of the Civil Rights Movement
With an Even Hand: Brown vs Board at 50 - This exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of this landmark judicial case.

Overview of the Era

Other Black History links

AFRO-Americ@'s Black History Museum -
International Slavery Museum -
JOURNEY THROUGH U.S. HISTORY (Hotlist) - includes section on Black History

Content by Marilyn Abramowitz, mabramowitz@mineola.k12.ny.us
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Last revised Fri Nov 20 9:56:23 US/Pacific 2009