WEBSITES FOR
REVIEW PAPERS
Note: There are 140 websites here in alphabetical order. Take you time, read the descriptions and chose one that really interests you.
A More Perfect Union Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution The National Museum of American History (Smithsonian) exhibit on Japanese Americans and World War II.
A Trip Thru the '60s - Hippyland A Trip Thru the '60s forums. Hippyland, Keeping the Spirit Alive!
ADAH: Alabama Moments Civil Rights Movement From the Alabama Department of Archives and History, a collection of documents, photographs and materials about the Civil Rights Movement.
African American History at the Maryland State Archives Online materials on African Americans in the State of Maryland
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship Library of Congress online exhibit of the struggle for rights since slavery.
American Experience | The Murder of Emmett Till The Murder of Emmett Till: Emmett Till's brutal murder in 1955 mobilized the civil rights movement. Based on the PBS documentary.
Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement From the Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education, website examines the desegregation of schools and colleges in the Metro Atlanta area.
Attica Rebellion mp3 radio documentary 30 Years later: Attica Rebellion, audio documentary from Freedom Archives
Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc. - Working For Justice In Housing. Community based organization, established in early 1960s to fight block-busting and racial segregation
Bay Area Civil Rights Movement Veterans - CORE, NAACP, SCLC, SNCC Civil Rights Movement history, personal stories, discussions & analysis, commentaries, contact information by and for veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement (CORE, NAACP, SCLC, SNCC) Extensive.
Biographies of Slain Civil Rights Figures Mississippi Clarion Ledger The Clarionledger.com, the digital edition of The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, MS. Updated daily, the site contains local news, weather, sports, entertainment, movies, real estate, auto, classified, employment, and more.
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Website of the museum in Alabama; has online tours and exhibit, sound recordings and photographs related to the Movement. See Online Resource Gallery.
Black Arts Movement AALBC.com From the African American Literature Book Club, a website devoted to “the artistic sister of the Black Power Movement."
Black Arts Movement Univ of Michigan Website for English 499, University of Michigan, 1997.
Black Panther Newspaper Collection eTexts from the Maoist International Movement This page makes available some of the original writings of the Black Panther Party from its first three years of existence (1966-1969) when it grew to be an explosive power and the predominant influence in the Black nation. These articles dispell a number of myths about the Black Panthers currently circulated by opportunists, lecture-circuit parasites and wannabe Hollywood directors.
Black Panther Party Marxists.Org A history of the Black Panther Party, with original documents, described from a marxist perspective.
Black Student Alliance | Michigan State University Website of the BSU with a discussion of its history and role in the black power movement at Michigan State University.
BRIA: Free Speech Movement, Berkeley, Mahatma Gandhi, British Empire, anti-abortion rescue movement, protest, civil disobedience An online issue of the Bill of Rights in Action, from the Constitutional Rights Foundation, examining role of protest and political rights. Review other sections of the website for more depth.
Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research Established by Linda Brown, lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board, and dedication as a national historical site of the Kansas City School
Brown v. Board of Education Online Archive U of Michigan The University of Michigan Library's Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive. Contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present
Build the Dream: The MLK National Memorial The official website for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Foundation. To commemorate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by leading a collaborative funding, design, and construction process in the creation of a memorial to honor his national and international contributions to world peace through non-violent social change.
Children Of The Movement Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognizable figures in the civil rights movement, this book collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to change America. The whole range of players is covered, from the children of leading figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and martyrs like James Earl Chaney to segregationists like George Wallace and Black Panther leaders like Elaine Brown. The essays reveal that some children are more pessimistic than their parents, whose idealism they saw destroyed by the struggle, while others are still trying to change the world. Included are such inspiring stories as the daughter of a notoriously racist Southern governor who finds her calling as a teacher in an all-black inner-city school and the daughter of a famous martyr who unexpectedly meets her mother's killer. From the first activists killed by racist Southerners to the current global justice protestors carrying on the work of their parents, these profiles offer a look behind the public face of the triumphant civil rights movement and show the individual lives it changed in surprising ways.
Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools Founded by Marian Wright Edelman, a SNCC volunteer in the Mississippi Project, the Children’s Defense Fund still uses the Citizenship School model to empower today’s children.
Citizen King | American Experience | PBS Citizen King pushes past the myths that have obscured King's story to reclaim the history of a people's leader. Using the personal recollections, diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts of friends, family, journalists, law enforcement officers and historians, this film brings fresh insights to King's difficult journey, his charismatic -- if at times flawed -- leadership, and his truly remarkable impact.
Civil Rights Context in the Early 1960s - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum Essay that summarizes the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Context in the Early 1960 and 70s from the Kennedy Library
Civil Rights Education: The Southern Institute for Education and Research The Southern Institute’s free anti-bias teacher training workshops, offered throughout the Gulf Coast South, including Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle. Workshops are recommended for middle and high school social studies and language arts teachers. Based at Tulane University, New Orleans,
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi organized by the University of Southern Mississippi. Mississippi was a focal point in the struggle for civil rights in America, and Hattiesburg, where USM is located, had the largest and most successful Freedom Summer project in 1964. The original sources collected in the state represent local collections with truly national significance. Digitization provides an opportunity to make indigenous resources of this type available to a worldwide audience.
Civil Rights Memorial Tolerance.Org SPLC The Montgomery, Alabama –based Southern Poverty Law Center’s memorial for the civil rights movement.
Civil Rights Room-Nashville Public Library Materials organized by the Nashville Public Library – itself a focus of sit-in demonstrations for desegregation – that highlight the movement in the city.
Congress of Racial Equality CORE Website of CORE, includes an extensive historical section. Review with History of CORE
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II Densho is a nonprofit organization started in 1996, with the initial goal of documenting oral histories from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. This evolved into a mission to educate, preserve, collaborate and inspire action for equity. Densho uses digital technology to preserve and make accessible primary source materials on the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. We present these materials and related resources for their historic value and as a means of exploring issues of democracy, intolerance, wartime hysteria, civil rights and the responsibilities of citizenship in our increasingly global society. We encourage use of these resources to expand awareness of our country's diverse history, to stimulate critical thinking, to develop ethical decision-making skills, and to help ensure that democratic principles are upheld now and in the future.
Drop In The Bucket| Bergie Lustig 1962-1972 The personal reminiscences of Bergie Lustig, a white SNCC volunteer, married a black fellow activist and continued to work for desegregation after moving to Crown Heights, Brooklyn in the late 1960s.
Dynamics of Idealism: Volunteers for Civil Rights More a dataset than a website, these are the actual questionnaires returned by hopeful in the 1965 Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) before and after a two and a half month voter registration effort in May and the Fall of 1965, and a follow-up study in 1982.
Emmett Till - Devery Anderson website A comprehensive website on the murder of Emmett Till by Devery Anderson, whose only goal is to make public as much information as is known about his death.
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act Index to Released Documents The official Freedom of Information Act website from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with searchable links to released FBI files of key civil rights figures (and many, many others).
Fire [The 1968 Riots] A chapter from 'Multitudes; Memoirs of a Rebel' by Sam Smith A chapter about eh Washington DC Martin Luther King Riots in 1968.
FOR- Who We Are: History of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, review entire website for more depth and context.
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive home The home of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, which began when University officials refused to allow students to table in Sproul Plaza.
Freedom Never Dies: The Story of Harry T. Moore PBS Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore tells the story of America's first civil rights martyr.
Freedom Now! An archival project of Tougaloo College and Brown University Devoted to documenting the role the HBCU in the struggle for racial desegregation and civil rights.
Freedom Riders Univ of Miss William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation The Winter Institute’s website on the Freedom Riders. Flash and HTML versions
Freedom Rides from Rider DB Fankhauser The personal website of one of white Freedom Riders.
Freedom School Curriculum 1964 Mississippi In the summer of 1964, over forty Freedom Schools opened in Mississippi. These schools were part of Freedom Summer, a project of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, with the goal to empower African Americans in Mississippi to become active citizens and agents of social change. Organized by Education and Democracy, a San Francisco-based project that is using the Freedom School curriculum in the public schools.
From Segregation to Integration: The Donald Murray Case Documents and materials related to the admission of Donald Gaines Murray to the University of Maryland Law School, 1936 from the Maryland State Archives. (Requires email authorization for free password to access MSA archives for educational research purposes. Worth it.)
FSM-A the Free Speech Movement Archives Home Page FSM-A the Free Speech Movement Archives Home Page - events from 1964 and following
Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement From the News-Record of Greensboro, N.C., a comprehensive website on the sit-ins.
Harry T. Moore Homesite - Mims, Florida The Harry T. Moore website to memorialize the murdered civil rights worker and his wife.
Highlander Research and Education Center – History The place where key grassroots activists in the Civil Rights Movement (and labor movement) received their training in nonviolence and strategic planning. Also an excellent music archive.
History Learning Site UK Civil Rights in America : A UK website on the U.S. movement (international perspectives)
Homepage of Bobby Seale What it says. Includes links to buy his book “Barbequeing with Bobby”.
Hunterbear Thomas Gray Salter Veteran of Jackson MS Movement Website of Hunter Gray, Social Activist. I'm an organizer - a working social justice agitator. I've been one since the mid-1950s and I'll always be one. In many respects, it's one of the toughest trails anyone could ever follow.
I AM A MAN: An
Online
Exhibit on the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike In 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, the labor
movement and the civil rights movement came together in a monumental
struggle
for human and public employee rights. On February 11, over 1,300
sanitation
workers – nearly all were African American – went on strike demanding
their
basic rights to organize a union, to gain a living wage and to receive
the
respect and dignity due all working men and women. During the strike
Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. came to Memphis to support the workers but was
tragically
assassinated.
In Search of African America: One Collector's Experience. An exhibit at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum preserves the records of Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States
Integration of the Armed Forces: US Army History of African-Americans in the Armed Forces of the United States
International Civil Rights Center & Museum Greensboro, NC Website of the museum, with online exhibits, etc. about the movement.
It's About Time - Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni Its About Time BPP, is a Website for Black Panther Party Legacy and Alumni.
IWFR: History of the Original Freedom Rides The Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride, which took place in 2005, pays homage to “civil rights movement history in the U.S. The 1961 Freedom Rides were incredibly courageous acts of resistance led by many women and men, who still to this day, are leaders in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice.”
James Reeb: UU World: The Magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association Website about the Unitarian minister who was assassinated for his work in the civil rights movement.
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University Racism and racial stereotypes in the Jim Crow Era. Racial discrimination against minorities, blacks, and African Americans. Minstrel shows, Al Jolson and Amos and Andy.
Jo Freeman's The Civil Rights Movement Browse articles by Jo Freeman about the Civil Rights Movement.
Kensington Welfare Rights Union Website of the Pennsylvania-based welfare rights organization, founded in 1968 and still going strong.
LBJ Voter Intimidation and the 1964 Election WhiteHouseTapes.org WhiteHouseTapes.org -- Research tools for the secret presidential recordings of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
LBJ Wallace and the Selma Alabama Crisis of 1965 WhiteHouseTapes.org WhiteHouseTapes.org -- Research tools for the secret presidential recordings of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
Let's
March On:
from the Queens Borough Public Library :Selected Civil Rights
Photographs of
Ernest C. Withers, 1955-1968.
Ernest C. Withers’ photographic coverage of events in the Civil Rights Movement shook the conscience of the nation. Unlike other photojournalists, Withers was a participant in the movement, not just an observer. He believed that if the struggle for equality could be shown to the world, people would surely move to change the status quo. Let Us March On! features 60 photographs that document pivotal moments in the history of the Civil Rights Movement..
Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary Special activities in September, 1997, will draw attention to the impact of the integration crisis that centered around Little Rock Central High School in 1957-58.
LPB Presents: Signpost to Freedom: The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott Louisiana Public Broadcasting’s website with materials from its documentary on the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott
LSU Libraries: Baton Rouge 1953 Bus Boycott Exhibit Before Montgomery, there was the Baton Rouge bus boycott of 1953. A website from LSU Libraries.
Malcolm X : A Research Site Scholarly research on Malcolm X, his life and activities. A serious look at his words, written and spoken, a webliography, extensive chronology, bibliography and study guide.
Martin Luther King, Liberation Curriculum : From the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
McComb U.S.A. The McComb Freedom School Play This is a site created by a Department of Curriculum & Instruction class in history education at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in order to create a meaningful primary resource for teachers and classes studying the Civil Rights Movement.
MD State Archives Legacy of Slavery Online: An online exhibition from the Maryland State Archives on slavery in the state.
Mississippi Burning, 1964 WhiteHouseTapes.org WhiteHouseTapes.org -- Research tools for the secret presidential recordings of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
Mt. Zion Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum Mt. Zion became the center of operations for the Albany Movement when Albany State College officials (an HBCU) refused to permit SNCC organizers onto campus.
NAACP Baltimore City Branch - History The Baltimore Branch of the NAACP was founded on April 4, 1912, by a group of influential community leaders. It has the noteworthy distinction of being the second branch chartered in the United States. Among the founding members were the Reverend Dr. Harvey Johnson, who was described as leading the branch's establishment, and the Reverend Dr. Garnett Russell Waller, who served as the Branch's first president. Review the rest of the website for context.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund -- Timeline The story of Brown and most every other significant civil rights case in the twentieth century as fought by the lawyers of the NAACP LDF.
NARA Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education The National Archives Digital Classroom: Primary Sources, Activities and Training for Educators and Students.
National Civil Rights Museum Nashville TN Website of the museum; includes gallery, online archives and information.
New York Ave Presbyterian Church History: DC Riots of 1968 The Web site for the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Review entire website for context.
NPR : The Legacy of Medgar Evers Mississippi is a much-changed place since civil rights pioneer Medgar Evers was murdered there 40 years ago this week. The civil rights leader refused to leave the state he loved. He believed conditions would improve. And now his state leads the nation in the number of black elected officials. NPR's Melanies Peoples reports from the county where Evers grew up.
October 1960 - Civil Rights - A Jackson Sun Special Report On the 40th anniversary (1960-2000) of Jackson's civil rights movement, The Jackson Sun is recording - for the first time - the events that led to massive changes in race relations in our community. As part of our retrospective, we are creating an educational resource that can be used by school children and other researchers.
Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, The University of Southern Mississippi and Tougaloo College Archives this project is to shine the spotlight on some of those individuals who courageously gave their lives to the causes of freedom, justice, and equality in what had been touted as being the finest country on earth. Nowhere can these sacrifices be seen more clearly than in the lives of those activists who sought to topple racial, economic, and political inequality in the deep southern state of Mississippi.
Plowshares Electronic Archival Project: Atlanta Mennonite Church Unit 1961-1974 Documents the role of the Mennonite Church in pacifist, non-violent resistance to segregation in Atlanta
Powerful Days in Black and White | Photographs of Charles Moore From the Kodak Company, a website featuring the black and white photography of one of Movement’s most respected photographers.
Pursuing the Past: A Mississippi Newspaper Investigates Crimes of the Civil Rights Era A PBS special report examining the role of newspapers in the civil rights movement and recent efforts to remedy past wrongs.
Race & Place: An African American Community (VA) This is an archive about the racial segregation laws, or the 'Jim Crow' laws from the late 1880s until the mid-twentieth century. Also contains photos,letters,two regional census' and a flash map of the town of Charlottesville.
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism - Civil Rights Reviews the role of Jewish organizations and people in the civil rights movement. Review rest of website for context.
Reporting Civil Rights - Presented by The Library of America Website to support the Library of America book, examines the role of the media in the civil rights movement.
Robert Moses Civil Rights | Algebra Project Personal website of Robert Moses, covering his early work in Mississippi for SNCC and his recent work to teach higher mathematics to grade school students.
School Integration: Introduction Watson.Org Examines the desegregation of public schools; Prince George’s County, Maryland is highlighted.
SCLC National Convention - Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC's 2003 convention will be in the city of Memphis, TN. This historic occasion represents the first time that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference will have returned to the City of Memphis since Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.'s assassination.
Separate but Not Equal: Race, Education, and Prince Edward County, Virginia VCU Libraries: This online exhibit explores the history of the Prince Edward County, Virginia school segregation issues of the 1950s and 1960s. Included in this exhibit are images documenting the disparity between black and white county schools, documents written by Dr. Peeples and others analyzing the issues, a selected bibliography of materials, and links to sites on the topic.
Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education -Smithsonian Online exhibit from the National Museum of American History, documenting the history of the Brown decision and desegregation.
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing - 1963 Four little girls died in the racially motivated bombing of a church in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama This site is a tribute to those four girls with history links, articles, discussion board, civil rights information, and more.
SNCC 1960-1966: Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee This site covers the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from its birth in 1960 to 1966, when John Lewis was replaced by Stokely Carmichael as chairman. This event marks a decided change in philosophy for SNCC, and one that warrants an equal amount of attention. However, we have focused on the first six years of the movement, in order to adequately explore such events as sit-ins, the Freedom Rides and Freedom Summer.
SNCC Students Defining the Civil Rights Era TCNJ This webpage is part of a larger collection of pages compiled for Professor Fisher's Africana People and the 1960's class at The College of New Jersey. The collection of pages examines the different people, organizations, events, and issues of the 1960's and their influence on the Civil Rights movement. This page looks specifically at the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the social impact that the organization had throughout the course of the Civil Rights era.
Starting Out: A Family's Journey An online travelogue of major cities of the movement reported by Keith Woods of the Poynter Institute for Journalism.
Stokely Carmichael Talks About Black Power 1967 On April 19, 1967, Stokely Carmichael* spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. A leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later the Black Panthers, Carmichael coined the phrase "Black Power" and in this speech discussed the relationships between language, identity, and power.
Struggle Inside: George Jackson MP3 audio documentary (29 minutes) 30 years after the murder of George Jackson audio from Freedom Archives
Teachers' Domain WGBH: Civil Rights From the WGBH Educational Foundation, this website provides in-depth materials for teachers on topics covered by PBS programs. Requires free registration. Examine section on the Civil Rights Movement.
Television News of the Civil Rights Era Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970, aims to collect, digitize, and present in streaming video format over the World Wide Web television news footage from the period and to make these valuable materials available to scholars, teachers, and students. The current archive contains films from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia--WDBJ (CBS) Roanoke and WSLS (NBC) Roanoke. In this initial installment we have digitized over 230 films. This rare footage includes full speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, the governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as original footage of school desegregation, public meetings, local debates over civil rights matters, and interviews with citizens.
The American Experience | George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire George Wallace - the staunch segregationist who divided a nation and launched a conservative movement.
The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965: Introduction Watson.org An excellent textual in-depth guide to the Movement
The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia - Virginia Historical Society online exhibition of the movement in Virginia.
The Coverage of the Cairo Illinois Civil Rights Protests 1962 and later During the late 1960s and early 1970s, many civil rights workers were actively trying to rid Cairo, Illinois, of segregation. Blacks boycotted stores that would not employ them. Gun fights between blacks and whites were common in the black neighborhoods. The newspaper coverage of these events changed how many people looked at the issues. The newspaper's positive or negative spin however subtle, could persuade readers to view a situation from different perspectives. Three different newspapers in southern Illinois took different views of what went on in the town. The Cairo Evening Citizen, the local newspaper, was slightly pro-white. The Southern Illionoisan, an area newspaper, favored the civil rights activists in Cairo. The East St. Louis Monitor, a black-run newspaper, was strongly pro-black on racial issues in Cairo.
The Detroit and Newark Riots of 1967 The summer of 1967 marked the apex of a cycle of 'urban unrest' that began during the mid-1960s in Harlem and Watts and tapered off by the early 1970s. During the "summer of love" one hundred and sixty four "civil disorders" were reported in one hundred and twenty eight American cities. In this site, eyewitnesses will speak for themselves as residents, merchants, militants, police officers and National Guardsmen describe their experiences during the summer of 1967.
The history of the Black Panther Party (BPP) World History Arvchives The history of the Black Panther Party (BPP)
The James Earl Chaney Foundation In 1964, three brave Civil Rights Volunteers, James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, were murdered in Mississippi for trying to help African Americans the right to vote. Although the murderers were identified, they were never tried, due to the racism of the time. Today, there is a growing movement, in Mississippi and across the nation, to bring the all of the killers to justice.
The King Center for Non Violent Social Change Atlanta GA The OFFICIAL WEBSITE of The King Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The King Center educates the world about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy and methods of nonviolence.
The Mississippi Burning Trial: United States vs. Cecil price et al. (1967) A site dedicated to the explication of the trials of conspirators in the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964
The Official Kwanzaa Web Site - Kwanzaa African American Celebration of Family, Community and Culture by Maulana Karenga Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture - The Official Kwanzaa Website by Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder
The Official Web Site of Malcolm X Official Web Site of Malcolm X, includes biography, photos and more
The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum Savannah GA Savannah's Civil Rights Movement was different from those in other cities across the South. Its strategy of nonviolent protest reflected what was going on nationally, but the movement in Savannah was fueled with home grown passion. It was fully organized and implemented by local African American citizens, the victims of the laws which gave people of color second class status. Outstanding leadership in the local adult and youth branches of the NAACP, the courage and eagerness of Savannah's youth, and the wisdom of local elders combined to make the quest for equal rights in Savannah, truly, a movement from within.
The Rosa Parks Library and Museum Troy University Website of the Museum, a major landmark in the revitalization of downtown Montgomery constructed on the site of the old Empire Theatre where Mrs. Parks made her courageous and historic stand in 1955. The interpretive museum occupies the first floor and 7000 square feet of a three-story, 55,000 square foot building that also contains the TROY-Montgomery Campus Library. It includes space for permanent and special exhibits as well as a 103-seat, 2200 square foot multimedia auditorium. In a non-violent and non-threatening manner, six distinct and unique areas inside the museum tell the story of bravery and courage of early civil rights soldiers.
The Sixties Project (UVa) The Sixties Project began as a collective of humanities scholars working together on the Internet to use electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the Sixties. It's our philosophy that revolutions are made by those who show up, so if you are interested in us and want to throw your energy into a project, we are interested in you. We're also interested in hearing from you if you have in your possession, or know about, materials which should be included either in the text or image digitizing projects. We intend to be exhaustive in our pursuit and conversion of texts and ephemera.
The SpiritHouse Project - The Jonathan Daniels Samuel Younge Institute The SpiritHouse Project is a national organization that uses research, action, the arts, education, spiritual reflection, and analysis to bring diverse peoples together to build a just and nonviolent movement that moves us toward a beloved community.
The Whole World Was Watching 1968 Brown University The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968 is a joint project between South Kingstown High School and Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group. The project was sponsored by the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities and NetTech: the Northeast Regional Technology in Education Consortium. The resource contains transcripts, audio recordings, and edited stories of a series of interviews conducted in the spring of 1998. Members of the Sophomore Class at SKHS interviewed Rhode Islanders about their recollections of the year 1968. Their stories, which include references to the Vietnam War, the struggle for Civil Rights, the Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy as well as many more personal memories are a living history of one of the most tumultuous years in United States history.
This Far by Faith African American Spiritual Journeys : Based on the PBS documentary series, this website provides materials about the role of faith and religion in the African American community from slavery through the civil rights movement. (NB: Review paper need cover only the Movement section.)
UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Black Panther Party The UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project is a partnership between the UC Berkeley Library, the Pacifica Foundation, and other private and institutional sources. The intent of the project is to gather, catalog, and make accessible primary source media resources related to social activism and activist movements in California in the 1960's and 1970's. Some recordings have been slightly edited for purposes of sound quality and continuity. Sound files in this collection require the RealAudio player.
UFW: The Official Web Page of the United Farm Workers of America Website of the UFW, includes history of union organizing and extensive material of its founders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
UnderstandingPrejudice.org Discussion on racism, sexism, and other prejudices, with searchable databases and fascinating interactive exercises
University of Maryland Activists Re-Unite! Website of activist alumni of UM, with information about student protests, the administration and “where are they now?” profiles.
University of the Poor -- School of Artists University of the Poor is committed to empowering poor people to take political action, a product of the War on Poverty
UVa Library: Exhibits: Lift Every Voice This online exhibition takes its name from a hymn composed a century ago by two African-American brothers, James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson. Written in the days of the Jim Crow South, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" inspired African Americans to persist in their struggle for equal rights. During the 1920s, the song was being pasted into the backs of hymnals and had become known as the "Negro national anthem." The hymn opens with an injunction to "ring with the harmonies of Liberty," calling for those constitutional rights which were being denied to African American, and closes by affirming God and country. These sentiments frame hopes for a better future, "the white gleam of our bright star." Also on display, the book of the same name, co-edited by civil rights activist and University of Virginia history professor Julian Bond, celebrates the song's centenary and documents its enduring influence.
Vernon Johns: Jacksonville Florida Civil Rights Martyr Vernon Johns was an important figure in the civil rights movement; the sociology of race relations; and predecessor of Martin Luther King Jr. It's not so much that humans can't handle the truth; it's more that humans don't want to know the truth. The Vernon Johns Society wants to know the truth, regardless of whom we might upset.
Veterans of Hope The Veterans of Hope Project is a multifaceted educational initiative on religion, culture and participatory democracy. We encourage a healing-centered approach to community-building that recognizes the interconnectedness of spirit, creativity and citizenship. Our educational materials are designed to support reconciliation, nonviolence and an appreciation for the value of indigenous and folk wisdom for contemporary times.
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Highline Community College This website was created by students in honor of the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement - they were ordinary people who played extraordinary roles in the cause of social justice, equality, and freedom. This is an ongoing project, and we hope to access the testimonies and memorialize the experiences of more veterans over time . . . .
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Website of the organization, includes historical information. Review as whole.
Voices of Civil Rights (A Library of Congress Exhibition) Voices of Civil Rights is a Library of Congress exhibition which documents events during the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. This exhibition features documentation of twenty oral histories and seventeen photographs taken during the seventy-day "Voices of Civil Rights" bus tour, which began in Washington, DC, on August 3, 2004. Complimenting this material are more than 30 vintage photos and posters from the Library's rich archive of civil rights material.
Voices of Civil Rights A Project of LCCR The Voices of Civil Rights, a joint effort of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress collects and preserves untold accounts of the Civil Rights Movement.
Voices of Freedom | Calvin College Welcome to the Voice of Freedom Speech Archive! We hope that your visit will be informative and time well spent.This site was created by Calvin College Professor Garth Pauley and his summer Research Assistant Peter Bratt. The speeches that we have selected for the Voices of Freedom website were chosen based on their contribution to the Civil Rights movement in the United States, and are considered "forgotten speeches." Although this site primarily has speeches given by African American speakers in the 20th century, it is hoped that all Americans will read and note the struggles for many American groups to gain the rights granted to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. At this present time when the past is forgotten and ignored, it is well worth it to go against the grain and examine the speeches of those who took actions to ensure that all of us today might be equal.
Voices of Freedom The Virginia Civil Rights Movement - VCU Libraries Voices of Freedom was produced by the Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative, a non-profit organization incorporated in 2002 to produce videotaped oral histories of leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia. While much has been written about the dramatic events which occurred in the deep South, the story of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia has largely gone untold. Voices of Freedom focuses on statewide activities from the 1950s through the early 1970s and includes stories about the "Jim Crow" segregation laws that prevailed up until the mid-1960s; stories about the struggles to change the laws and to change public attitudes; and advice from these civil rights veterans to future generations of Virginians/Americans.
We Shall Overcome; Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement National Register Travel Itinerary : The National Parks Service website of historic places central to the Civil Rights Movement. Each place on the trail is documented.
Wednesdays in Mississippi UVA Northern women of different races and faiths traveled to Mississippi to develop relationships with their southern peers and to create bridges of understanding across regional, racial, and class lines. By opening communications across societal boundaries, Wednesday’s Women sought to end violence and to cushion the transition towards racial integration.
Welcome to Robert Russa Moton Museum The Robert Russa Moton Museum is committed to the preservation and positive interpretation of the history of civil rights in education, specifically as it relates to Prince Edward County and the role its citizens played in America's struggle to move from a segregated to an integrated society.
WGBH | 1963 March on Washington We look back at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which celebrated its 40th anniversary Aug. 28, 2003. In 1963, WGBH 89.7 broadcast the entire event as part of the Educational Radio Network (precursor to NPR). Host Phillip Martin pulled from the Archive to bring you this special feature. (To listen to these clips, you need realplayer)
When Youth Protest: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement 1955-1970 Mississippi Historical Society The Civil Rights Movement in the American South during the 1950s and 1960s involved a diverse group of people. The movement sought legal enforcement of equality for Black Americans that was guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution. At various points between 1954 and 1970, participants in the movement represented all strata of American life. Whites joined Blacks in the struggle, southerners as well as northerners agitated, midwesterners and westerners participated, women along with men protested. Elderly and young Americans were active in the movement as well; however, students from middle school through college came to the struggle much later than most. Not until the 1960s did a substantial number of America's youth join and contribute their efforts to the struggle.
Will The Circle Be Unbroken? Southern Regional Council An audio history of the civil rights movement in five Southern communities and the music of those times.
‘With an Even Hand’: Brown v. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress Exhibition) "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress Exhibition). On May 17, l954, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." This decision was pivotal to the struggle for racial desegregation in the United States. This exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of this landmark judicial case.