In this interview transcript from People's Century, northern civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Jim Zwerg describes his experiences.

Brief, yet comprehensive, summary of the Civil Rights movement from 1960 until 1980. Includes civil rights policies of presidents Kennedy through Nixon.

This encyclopedia article gives an interesting account of the Freedom Rides of 1961, which sparked later civil rights movements.

Outlines Martin Luther King, Jr.'s work as a civil rights leader from the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 up until his assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968. Describes the different protest movements, including the...

Series episode covers the civil rights movement and the struggle for equality in post-World War II America.

Article provides numerous detailed facts and a summary of the Freedom Riders who boarded their buses in May 1961 to test segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals in the South.

This resource offers a memoir that examines the role of armed self-defense in the civil rights movement. An excerpt from the text "Negroes with Guns", by Robert Williams is made available here, describing his approach towards civil...

In the early 1960s civil rights activists put the ban on segregation to the test. In 1961, "Freedom riders," boarded buses headed south to test the federal ban on segregated travel. And in 1962, the University of Mississippi was ordered...

Brief biographical details on Eugene "Bull" Connor, Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham, AL in 1961. He was an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK known for enforcing racial segregation and denying civil rights to...