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Harry T. Moore Homesite - Mims, Florida

Harry T. Moore Homesite site commemorates lives of two pioneering American Black civil rights workers, murdered in 1951. Organized first Brevard Co. Chapter NAACP in 1934, and led Florida fight for equality and justice. First killing of prominent civil ri
http://www.nbbd.com/godo/moore/

Greensboro Sit Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement

A multimedia site presented by the Depot, the News and Record, and the Greensboro Public Library.
http://www.greensboro.com/sitins/stories/bishop.htm

Photo Tour of the Civil Rights Movement

A sampling of images from the national civil rights movement, and events that happened in the Seattle area.
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/phototour.html

A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum

Did you know...A. Philip Randolph first planned a March on Washington in 1941 to protest against governmental hiring practices that excluded African Americans from federal employment and federal contracts?
http://www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/

Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement

Personal testimony and contact information from veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement.
http://www.crmvet.org/

Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary

Background and history of events during the integration of Central High in 1957. Photos, articles, and news releases are published. Museum and visitor's center information is provided.
http://www.centralhigh57.org/

Historic Places in the Civil Rights Movements

The National Parks Services' story of the Civil Rights Movement centered around places listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/

American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

A course by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute featuring six women in the Civil Rights Movement based on the literature of Eloise Greenfield.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1997/3/97.03.10.x.html

Civil Rights Events, Strategies, and Forces

Captures several milestones, personalities, and influences that helped civil rights in America.
http://www.africanaonline.com/

Viva Cesar E. Chavez!

Contains a biography, chronology, list of achievements, interviews, audio and text of speeches, photos, documents (including quotes), and links.
http://www.sfsu.edu/~cecipp/cesar_chavez/chavezhome.htm

Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-Ins

The Greensboro News & Record and Public Library chronicle the 1960 sit-in movement with a timeline, photos, and voices of the participants.
http://www.sitins.com/
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Men and Women in Struggle

In memory of the men and women who helped in the struggle to achieve mankind's greatest victories.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/8443/

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

Randy Sydnor's audio interview of Dr. Daniel Levering Lewis, Du Bois biographer, on the show, Oxford Review.
http://www.Panagram.com/ads/OXRShows.asp?Panagram=811275660

1956 Tallahassee Bus Boycott

A collection of original source material emphasizing the role of the local newspaper, the Tallahassee Democrat, in covering the events of the boycott and race relations in general.
http://www.geocities.com/malcolm_b_johnson/

A Photographic History of The Civil Rights Movement

Photos and text from The Civil Rights Movement.
http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/

Click2History - Jim Crow Laws

Cites infamous "Jim Crow" laws against African Americans, with embedded links from national archives
http://www.click2history.com/crow_laws/crow_laws_ch1.htm

Civil Rights Author Discusses Birmingham, Alabama Revolution

Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Carry Me Home, discusses the revoltion that led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in an interview with Jerry Jazz Musician.
http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=mcwhorter.html

Civil Rights Garden

Photo documentary of the Civil Rights Garden located in Atlantic City, NJ, honoring those who struggled for civil rights.
http://digitalphotos1.tripod.com/index.html

Reporting Civil Rights

Features reporters and journalism of the American Civil Rights Movement.
http://www.reportingcivilrights.org

Ideas of Black Civil Rights Leaders

A short essay comparing the ideas of Civil Rights and African nationalism leaders.
http://www.geocities.com/genebrooks/civil-rights-leaders-ideas.html

Civil Rights Oral History

A bibliography of interviews about the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/oh/

Facing History and Ourselves

Educational organization. Site includes videoclips of individuals who involved the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 60s. Also describes educational and professional development programs and resources, lists regional offices, and provides news an
http://www.facinghistory.org/

National Center for Public Policy Research: Brown v. Board of Education

An unofficial text of the Supreme Court's landmark civil rights case.
http://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html

The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing

Information and history of the Birmingham Church bombing of 1963.
http://4littlegirls.com/

Civil Rights Movement: March on Washington 1963

A short history leading to and following the March 18, 1963 March on Washington D.C. for Jobs and Freedom.
http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/washington.asp

Historical Documents and Speeches Civil Rights Act 1964

Images of congressional signing ceremony and actual document included on site.
http://www.historicaldocuments.com/CivilRightsAct1964.htm

Hosea Lorenzo Williams

Includes biographical sketch and narrative essay.
http://www.africanpubs.com/Apps/bios/0254WilliamsHosea.asp

Mississippi Civil Rights Documentation Project

Funded by the Mississippi state legislature, presentation includes oral history bibliography, oral history transcripts, and civil rights timeline.
http://www.usm.edu/crdp/index.html

Sojourn to the Past

Offers students, educators and parents the chance to travel for ten days through the South visiting the most dramatic sites and hearing the speakers that first witnessed and created the civil rights movement
http://www.sojournproject.org/

Jim Crow Online

The official home of the PBS documentary, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/

Civil Rights

A high-school level overview of the civil rights struggle, from Reconstruction through Dr. King.
http://www.geocities.com/beckyok2/CivilRights.html

Tourism Boycott of San Francisco

A protest against alleged racial discrimination and ethnic injustices.
http://www.BoycottSanFrancisco.com

A Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics

A contemporary history of Blacks in Mathematics,featuring the first African Americans in the Mathematical Sciences and related events in the past 300 years. Links are presented in a timeline and include such information as first African American to obtain
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/madhist.html

Freetown Villiage - A Living History Museum

Freetown Village is a living history museum which depicts the lives and lifestyles of free African Americans in the year 1870. This symbolic community represents many of the predominantly African American settlements scattered throughout Indiana during th
http://www.freetown.org/

Juneteenth Worldwide Celebration

Website brings together the spirit of Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and
http://www.juneteenth.com/

History of Black Firefighters

This is a document of research by several individuals compiled in one location about the involvment of slaves and freedmen as well as emancipated blacks in the early history of fire fighting.
http://hometown.aol.com/fireriter/index.html

African American History: Welcome

This project documents a selection of important events in African American history. Currently it begins with the 1857 Dred Scott case and continues through Plessy v. Ferguson, the civil rights movement from 1955-1965, and school integration. It may be exp
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/index.html

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Ongoing project covering events from 1954 through 1965.
http://www.ags.uci.edu/~skaufman/teaching/win2001ch4.htm

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Describes the incident which started on December 1, 1955, when Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, and move to the back of the bus.
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/USA/MontBus.html

Civil Rights History Guide .. The History Beat

The Search Beat covers a variety of topics, including a Civil Rights History Guide with top Civil Rights history, timelines of the Civil Rights struggle, resources and more. Well organized by time periods; includes civil rights photography.
http://history.searchbeat.com/civilrights.htm

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive

The 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 sponsored by The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.Mi
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/index.html

The Slaughter: An American Atrocity... the book that breaks a news story

This compelling site focuses on "The Slaughter: An American Atrocity," a book that exposes the alleged massacre of over 1200 black soldiers based at Camp Van Dorn military base in Mississippi during World War Two. It is alleged the crime was committed by
http://www.theslaughter.com/newdevel.html

Milliken's Bend - Black Soldiers Defeat Confederates

Black soldiers vindicated President Abraham Lincoln by defeating Confederate soldiers at Milliken's Bend, in the critical battle for Vicksburg in the Civil War. As a result, most barriers to the enlistment and effective deployment of Colored recruits wer
http://www.millikensbend.org/

The "Separate but Equal" Legacy of Chief Just. Rehnquist

An essay and critique by Michael A. S. Guth of the conservative perspectives of U. S. Chief Justice Bill Rehnquist on issues of race and equality.
http://riskmgmt.biz/rehnquist.htm

Integrating Ole Miss

The Kennedy Presidential Library's account of James Meredith, the African-American student whose attempt to register at the University of Mississippi in 1962 provoked violent confrontation. Site includes timelines, biographical profiles, and primary sourc
http://www.jfklibrary.org/meredith/

Viola Liuzzo - Civil Rights Activist (1925-1965)

Viola Liuzzo, a white housewife who was killed while fighting for the rights of whites and nonwhites alike.
http://www.geocities.com/gury4u/viola1.htm

Voices of Civil Rights

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.
http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/

Michael Jackson Case Emblamatic of Anti-Black Male Bias

Political Scientist/Theorist Jim Johnson proposes that victims of anti-Black male bias, symbolic in California vs. Michael Jackson, revitalize the Civil Rights Movement as part of a response application to such bias.
http://www.jajnsn.com/mjcase.html

Three Victims of the Freedom Summer 1964 Civil Rights Movement

A sculptural portrayal of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, slain in the struggle for civil rights that they lived for, and that we all have.
http://www.yoyita.com/civilrights.htm

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