New York Times
New York Times: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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'
Alabama Humanities Foundation
Encyclopedia of Alabama: Selma to Montgomery March
One of the most famous events in Civil Rights history, this report covers the Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Sixties 1954 1974
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...
Black Past
Black Past: Barnett, Ida Wells
This biography details the life and journalistic career of African American women's rights activist Ida B. Wells Barnett.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Voting: Making of African American Identity: V. 3
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.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Rubye Robinson
Biographical sketch on Rubye Robinson, an American civil rights activist whose short life proved to be a powerful influence on the Civil Rights Movement.
Curated OER
University of Michigan:the Kennedy Myth and Civil Rights
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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University of Michigan:the Kennedy Myth and Civil Rights
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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University of Michigan:the Kennedy Myth and Civil Rights
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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University of Michigan:the Kennedy Myth and Civil Rights
Short paper in which the author asserts that Kennedy, contrary to popular belief, was a reluctant supporter of the Civil Rights movement.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kwame Ture, Stokely Carmichael
In this transcript of an interview recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Stokely Carmichael describes SNCC organizing campaigns and his views on "Black Power."
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Naacp, Constance Baker Motley
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Briggs v. Elliott, Harry and Eliza Briggs
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Racial Discrimination, Kenneth Clark
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.
Digital History
Digital History: Feminism Reborn
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Read about the March on Washington on August 28, 1963 where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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...
PBS
Pbs: Half the People
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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Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Robertson Arrive for Funeral Services for Their Daughter Carol
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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Thousands of People Gathered in Ny, 1963, to Protest the Birmingham Murders.
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.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: We Shall Overcome: A Party on Potus [Pdf]
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...
Other
Mississippi Writers' Page: Ida B. Wells Barnett
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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Afscme: "I've Been to the Mountaintop" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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