This is an online study guide/notes for the book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis. This nonfiction book describes the...

When four African American North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students refused to leave the lunch-counter at the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro they started the first non-violent, "sit-in" movement. Although the...

Photographs taken in the 1940s of various public places that had posted signs for "White" and "Colored."

A brief encyclopedia entry about James Meredith, the first black to integrate the University of Mississippi. A link will take you to a website so you can see the papers he donated to Old Miss.

Intriguing article explaining the trend illustrated through the 2000 Census information that minorities have broken segregation ties but still choose to live in areas with other members of their racial background.

Learn about Apartheid in South Africa, and what the main reasons were that worked toward it coming to an end. Very informative information.

The Great Migration for African Americans began during World War I as blacks left the segregated south to find jobs in the north. Read about how segregation followed them into their northern neighborhoods. See also how the Harlem...

On December 1, 1955, the late Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat and made civil rights history.

Read the book, "Freedom on the Menu" about the Greensboro Sit-Ins and use the background information and follow up activities provided to enhance the story.

This resource presents James Farmer (1920-1999), a major figure in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, and the distinction he draws between integration and desegregation, two terms often used interchangeably and often confused.

The story of Rosa Parks, whose simple action of refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person galvanized black people into standing up against racial discrimination. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.