Civil Rights Resources 

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Jim Crow Laws
1876-1965

(2 people for a presentation)

Resource 1: Overview of the Jim Crow Laws

• http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Jim_Crow_laws.aspx

Resource 2: Media (images) and text

• http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html
• http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/white-only-1.html

 
Resource 3: Personal narratives/Interviews

• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories.html

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Emmett Till Murder
​August 1955

(1 person for a presentation)

Resource 1: Timeline and Overview.

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/timeline/index.html

 
The impact of Emmett Till’s murder:

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/peopleevents/e_impact.html

 
Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/peopleevents/p_till.html
•  http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html

 
Resource 3: Interviews/Videos

•  http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/till/tillSONG.html (song)

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Montgomery, Aabamam 
Bus Boycott

December 1955-1956

(1 person for a presentation)

Resource 1: Overview.

• http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_montgomery_bus_boycott_1955_1956/
• http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html

More in-depth:

• http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/african-americans-boycott-buses-integration-montgomery-alabama-us-1955-1956

 
Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

• http://photos.state.gov/galleries/usinfo-photo/39/civil_rights_07/2.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_us_civil_rights_movement/html/1.stm (civil rights movement in pictures)
•  http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html

Resource 3: Interviews/Videos

• Interview with Rosa Parks: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1
• Recalling the life of Rosa Parks: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4973330

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Little Rock, Arkansas “Little Rock 9”
1957

(1 person for a presentation)

Resource 1: Overview.

•  http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_little_rock_school_desegregation_1957/
•  http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryid=723

 
Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

•  http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryid=723# (side panel)
•  http://life.time.com/history/little-rock-nine-1957-photos/#1
•  http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html
•  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_us_civil_rights_movement/html/1.stm (civil rights movement in pictures)

 
Resource 3: Interviews/Videos

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xERXusiEszs (governor of Arkansas)

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Sit-ins
“Greensboro 4”
February 1960

(1 person for a presentation)

Resource 1: Overview.

• http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html

More in-depth:

• http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/greensboro-nc-students-sit-us-civil-rights-1960

Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

• http://www.sitins.com/multimedia.shtml
•  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_us_civil_rights_movement/html/1.stm (civil rights movement in pictures)
•  http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html

Resource 3: Interviews/Videos

•  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AZ2c7wI94I (interview with Joseph McNeil of the Greensboro 4)
•  http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/show/136657/seizing-justice-the-greensboro-4

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First African-American enter all White College (University of Mississippi)
October 1962

​(1 person for a presentation)

Resource 1: Overview.

• http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/mississippi/f1.html

 
Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

• http://photos.state.gov/galleries/usinfo-photo/39/civil_rights_07/8.html
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_us_civil_rights_movement/html/1.stm (civil rights movement in pictures)

 
Resource 3: Interviews/Videos

•  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57523347/ole-miss-1st-black-student-sits-out-anniversary/
•  http://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/161573289/integrating-ole-miss-a-transformative-deadly-riot
• (Story of James Meredith) 

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Freedom Riders
May 1961

​(2 people for a presentation)

Resource 1:

• Timeline. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/timeline

 
Overview:

• http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom%20rides.htm

 
More in-depth:

• http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html
•  http://www.npr.org/2006/01/12/5149667/get-on-the-bus-the-freedom-riders-of-1961

 
Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
• http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgfr.htm
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_us_civil_rights_movement/html/1.stm (civil rights movement in pictures)

 
Resource 3: Interviews/Videos

• http://www.annbausum.com/freedom_rides.html (excerpts from the interviews)
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/watch (the full movie)
•  http://www.oprah.com/packages/retrace-the-rides.html (freedom riders on Oprah)

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Birmingham, AL
Campaign
1963

​(2 people for a presentation)

Resource 1: Overview.

• http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/african-americans-birmingham-alabama-protest-segregation-1956-1958

 
More in-depth:

• http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html
• http://www.pbs.org/pov/barber/photo_gallery_background.php?photo=3#.UaSbA7_e7wx

 
Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

• http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/search/collection/p4017coll6/searchterm/Sixteenth%20Street%20Baptist%20Church%20/field/subjec/mode/all/conn/and/order/title/ad/asc/cosuppress/
• http://photos.state.gov/galleries/usinfo-photo/39/civil_rights_07/9.html  (M. L. King, Jr. in Birmingham, AL cell)
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_us_civil_rights_movement/html/1.stm (civil rights movement in pictures)

 
Resource 3: Interviews/Videos

• http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/U-0193/excerpts/excerpt_9219.html  (Interview with Mary Moore)

 

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24th Amendment
January 1964

​(1 person for a presentation)

Resource 1: Overview.

• http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/chronologyentry/1964_01_23/
• http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_polltax_1.html
• http://www.deafvote.com/why_vote/24th-amendment-explained.html
• http://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/37045
  

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Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html

 
Resource 3: Interviews

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March on Washington 
August 1963

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(1 person for a presentation)

Resource 1: Overview.

• http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec58qs.html

 
More in-depth:

• http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html

 
Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

• http://photos.state.gov/galleries/usinfo-photo/39/civil_rights_07/11.html
• http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgmow.htm
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_us_civil_rights_movement/html/1.stm (civil rights movement in pictures)

 
Resource 3: Interviews/Videos

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Civil Rights Act of 1964
July 1964

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(1 person for a presentation)

Resource 1: Overview.

• http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/history/CivilRightsAct.cfm
• http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_civilrights64text.htm

 
Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

• http://photos.state.gov/galleries/usinfo-photo/39/civil_rights_07/14.html
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_us_civil_rights_movement/html/1.stm (civil rights movement in pictures)

 
Resource 3: Interviews/Videos

• http://new.civiced.org/resources/multimedia/60-second-civics (60-second civics – Civil Rights Act of 1964)

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Selma
1965

(2 people for a presentation)

Resource 1: Overview.

• http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm

 
More in-depth:

• http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html
• http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/african-americans-campaign-voting-rights-selma-alabama-usa-1965

 
Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

• http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgselma.htm
• http://photos.state.gov/galleries/usinfo-photo/39/civil_rights_07/15.html
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_us_civil_rights_movement/html/1.stm (civil rights movement in pictures)

 
Resource 3: Interviews/Videos

• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4524742 (NPR's Jennifer Ludden speaks with one of the march leaders, Rev. Frederick Douglas Reese)
• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4525787 (The death of a young black man named Jimmy Lee Jackson at the hands of a state trooper sparked a pivotal march 40 years ago in Alabama. Civil rights activists tried to walk from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery, but law enforcement officers attacked them. Shocking footage of the attack helped boost support for the civil rights movement. Recently, the NPR commentator tracked down the trooper who shot Jackson)
• Newspaper Articles: http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights/rights4.html

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Voting Rights Act of 1965
 
(1 person for a presentation)

Resource 1: Overview.

• http://www.civilrights.org/voting-rights/vra/

 
More in-depth:

• http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/intro/intro_b.php

 
Resource 2: Media (Images and Videos)

• http://photos.state.gov/galleries/usinfo-photo/39/civil_rights_07/16.html
• http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/prize.htm
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/americas_us_civil_rights_movement/html/1.stm (civil rights movement in pictures)

 
Resource 3: Interviews/Videos

• http://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/videos#voting-rights-bill (footage of President Johnson singing  the Voting Rights Bill)

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 Additional Resources:
 
Civil Rights Movement Images: 

• http://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/photos 
• http://www.crmvet.org/images/imghome.htm
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/084_civil.html

 
Civil Rights Movement Interviews

• Rosa Parks: http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhome.htm
• http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/civil_rights.html (a collection of interviews)
• http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/american-history/1900/civil-rights (Video interviews)