Executive Order 11111—Providing Assistance for the Removal of Obstructions of Justice and Suppression of Unlawful Combinations Within the State of Alabama | The American Presidency Project
17: Civil Rights Movement
Watch - BLACK HISTORY IN TWO MINUTES
Civil Rights Teaching
Struggle for Civil Rights - Spartacus
Article with links from Spartacus Educational
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
Civil Rights Special Collection
NPR : Does Textbook Downplay U.S. Black History?
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
Black-White Achievement Gap Persists in All Grades and Reappears Quickly
Dr. Carson Unfinished Dialogue - King and Malcolm X
OUSD | Lesson Plans - History - Hidden In Plain Sight - Martin Luther King's Ideas
A Brief History of Music and Race in 20th-Century America
“No Heat, No Water and a Large Sign Reading ’Colored’”
National Civil Rights Museum
Brown v. Board - NY Times announces Supreme Court Decision
“The Only Good Pig Is a Dead Pig”: A Black Panther Paper Editor Explains a Political Cartoon
Official Program for the March on Washington (1963)
Stonewall 25 / Stonewall and Beyond -- Lesbian and Gay Culture (1994) -- Exhibition Index
The online edition of a Columbia University Libraries exhibition held from May 25 to September 17, 1994 in conjunction with the international celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
The collection includes more than 94 document projects or archives and 3,750 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text sources, written by almost 2,100 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. It continues to grow with two new issues/releases annually.
Hispanic Americans - Themed Resources
Explore the culture, contributions and interactions of Hispanic peoples in North America through rare maps, historical documents from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, local histories, recorded songs, interactive games, and detailed online bibliographies. From the Library of Congress
Women's History - Themed Resources
Examine print materials, photographs, and webcasts presenting women’s sometimes-overlooked contributions to history; learn about women as diverse as Jane Addams, Dorothea Lange, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and Zora Neale Hurston. from Library of Congress
Martin Luther King Jr. - A True Historical Examination
Site claims to offer information on Martin Luther King though is owned by Stormfront a white supremacist organization. All of the information offered on this site is suspect.
Historical Thinking Matters: Rosa Parks
Lesson plan with documents that challenges popular perception of Rosa Parks. Valuable for examples of students work and a "think aloud" video in which one student talks through his work
Report of Military Support of Law Enforcement - Los Angeles August 1965
Report of the California National Guard of their activities in suppressing the Watts Riots of 1968. Combing through this students can find statistics, and a timeline of events. This can be used in combination with other documents to determine accuracy - did the National Guard report this differently than the news media and civil rights organizations? What implications does this have on the use of martial law in America?
July 2, 1964: Remarks upon Signing the Civil Rights Bill | Lyndon Johnson
Lessons showing the link between the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement can be enhanced with these words of Lyndon Johnson when he signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
Martin Luther King - Nobel Lecture
Although the "I have a Dream" speech sucks all of the academic air out of the room, the Nobel speech offers a deeper reflection of Martin Luther King
Newark---1967
This site also provides background and story of the Newark Riots of 1967. This is a site that can be used in comparison with another to see the manner in which the author's shape the reader's opinions
Research Guides: Emmett Till Archives: Media Coverage: Magazines
Links to newspaper and magazine articles describing and showing the results of the torture and murder of Emmett Till
Segregation Forever | Equal Justice Initiative
Unbelievable quotes can be found in this collection
Resistance to Racial Integration
Brown v Board is a staple of US History classes, but how often are students shown the resistance to desegregation?