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These Birmingham News photographs of the civil rights movement have not been seen by the public. Until now...... Read more |
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Powerful Days in Black and White Kodak presents "Powerful Days in Black and White" of the civil rights movement...... Read more |
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Bayard Rustin and the Rise and Decline of the Black Protest Movement "THERE HAS BEEN . . . A NEGRO REVOLT in every decade of this century," Lerone Bennett wrote in 1963. "Each revolt failed, only to emerge in the next decade on a higher level of development."1 If there is a single person who served as the nexus between these decennial revolts, it was Bayard Rustin. This is one of the important lessons to be drawn from Jervis Anderson's recent biography: Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen.2 Indeed, if Anderson had his politics right, the subtitle would have read: Troubles I've Caused...... Read more |
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AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress have teamed up to collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all. We invite you to explore this site, a tribute to those who were a part of the civil rights experience and to the continuing quest for equality...... Read more |
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Civil Rights Movement Veterans This website is of, by, and for Veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement during the years 1951-1968. It is where we tell it like it was, the way we lived it...... Read more |
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The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Review of 1955-1956 landmark events from the Montgomery Advertiser. Features newspaper front pages, article archives, biographies of key pioneers, timeline of events, video clips...... Read more |
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This site presents the reporters and journalism of the American Civil Rights Movement...... Read more |
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In the fall of 1962 the college town of Oxford, Mississippi, erupted in violence. At the center of the controversy stood James Meredith, an African American who was attempting to register at the all-white University of Mississippi, known as "Ole Miss." Meredith had the support of the federal government, which insisted that Mississippi honor the rights of all its citizens, regardless of race. Mississippi's refusal led to a showdown between state and federal authorities and the storming of the campus by a segregationist mob. Two people died and dozens were injured. In the end, Ole Miss, the state of Mississippi, and the nation were forever changed. This site lets visitors witness the events firsthand through the actual letters, recorded telephone conversations, and images of those who made history...... Read more |
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We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement The National Parks Services' story of the Civil Rights Movement centered around places listed in the National Register of Historic Places...... Read more |
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Harry T. Moore Homesite site commemorates lives of two pioneering American Black civil rights workers, murdered in 1951...... Read more |
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Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement Since the Greensboro sit-ins on Feb. 1, 1960, the News & Record has published dozens of stories about what brought the four N.C. A&T freshmen together in an attempt to integrate F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter. The paper has chronicled their fears as they walked East Market Street to the store where they sat without service the first day and many other days. Readers have seen the stories about the way the sit-ins spread throughout the South, changing race relations across the country. Now, with this website, you can hear the participants tell the stories themselves...... Read more |
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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 in Mississippi. In executing this effort, The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries seek to: 1) enhance access to primary source material, 2) preserve original materials by creating digital surrogates, 3) create learning opportunities for remote users, and 4) create an infrastructure for a continuing digitization program...... Read more |
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American Women Who Shaped the Civil Rights Movement Explored Through the Literat Traditionally, women have played a significant role in the growth and development of children. American children of the 90’s are still strongly influenced by women, yet little emphasis is placed on where, when, why, and how women have developed. This unit explores the history of the civil rights movement in the United States from the perspective of the lives of Ella Baker, Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Church Terrell, and Ida Wells-Barnett. The writings of Eloise Greenfield, an African American children’s author, are used as a springboard...... Read more |
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