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New York Times

New York Times: Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th
An outstanding collection of materials for learning about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights movement. Students can engage in a text-to-text analysis of 'I Have a Dream' and 'The Lasting Power of Dr. King's Dream Speech'
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Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Selma to Montgomery March

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the most famous events in Civil Rights history, this report covers the Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Sixties 1954 1974

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive feature lets you decide if the feminist movement of the 1960s improved American women's lives. Covers the areas of politics, business, professions, family, and independence. See how your vote compares with others that have...
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Black Past

Black Past: Barnett, Ida Wells

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography details the life and journalistic career of African American women's rights activist Ida B. Wells Barnett.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Who Was Emmett Till?

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet the boy whose murder ignited a movement.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Voting: Making of African American Identity: V. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
The efforts to secure African American voting rights in Mississippi are described within this resource. Anne Moody's, "Coming of Age in Mississippi", a four-part memoir recounts her childhood and young adulthood in racist rural Mississippi.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Rubye Robinson

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical sketch on Rubye Robinson, an American civil rights activist whose short life proved to be a powerful influence on the Civil Rights Movement.
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Curated OER

University of Michigan:the Kennedy Myth and Civil Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Short paper in which the author asserts that Kennedy, contrary to popular belief, was a reluctant supporter of the Civil Rights movement.
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Curated OER

University of Michigan:the Kennedy Myth and Civil Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Short paper in which the author asserts that Kennedy, contrary to popular belief, was a reluctant supporter of the Civil Rights movement.
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Curated OER

University of Michigan:the Kennedy Myth and Civil Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Short paper in which the author asserts that Kennedy, contrary to popular belief, was a reluctant supporter of the Civil Rights movement.
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Curated OER

University of Michigan:the Kennedy Myth and Civil Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Short paper in which the author asserts that Kennedy, contrary to popular belief, was a reluctant supporter of the Civil Rights movement.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Kwame Ture, Stokely Carmichael

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Stokely Carmichael describes SNCC organizing campaigns and his views on "Black Power."
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Naacp, Constance Baker Motley

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Justice Constance Baker Motley recalls her role as an NAACP attorney in landmark school desegregation cases.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Briggs v. Elliott, Harry and Eliza Briggs

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, Harry and Eliza Briggs describe their experience in the first school desegregation case, Briggs v. Elliott.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Racial Discrimination, Kenneth Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, psychologist Kenneth Clark describes his research that illustrated the impact of racism on African American children.
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Digital History

Digital History: Feminism Reborn

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the March on Washington on August 28, 1963 where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the action of Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, triggering a massive bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The boycott became the impetus for a Supreme Court ruling that...
Primary
PBS

Pbs: Half the People

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the continuation of the women's movement - the spread of the ideas to mainstream America. Women were beginning to feel the freedom of equality. Read two interviews from women who rode the wave of change.
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Curated OER

Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Robertson Arrive for Funeral Services for Their Daughter Carol

For Students 9th - 10th
The tragic story of the Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham during the Civil Rights movement in which four girls were killed. This NPR site updates the saga of the on-going investigation of the murderers.
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Curated OER

Thousands of People Gathered in Ny, 1963, to Protest the Birmingham Murders.

For Students 9th - 10th
The tragic story of the Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham during the Civil Rights movement in which four girls were killed. This NPR site updates the saga of the on-going investigation of the murderers.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: We Shall Overcome: A Party on Potus [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that directs students in a role-playing dramatization involving past presidents of the United States and activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry...
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Other

Mississippi Writers' Page: Ida B. Wells Barnett

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Mississippi offers a detailed biography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) the famous freedom fighter is offered at this site. It includes an extensive bibliography of her works, and works about her, as well as some...
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Other

Afscme: "I've Been to the Mountaintop" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the the events of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike which drew Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis, which is where he was soon to be assassinated. Excellent source of primary sources and first hand accounts of the...

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