The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965: Introduction
17: Civil Rights Movement
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
The Trials of The Scottsboro Boys
Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
Truman Library: Desegregation of the Armed Forces Online Research File
This collection focuses on President Truman's decision to desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces. It includes 247 documents totaling 1,187 pages, covering the years 1938-1953. Supporting material includes an Archival Materials Guide and finding aid, Records of the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services (Record Group 220).
We want white tenants - 1967 Detroit riot - Wikipedia
Teachers could use this image, without any other information, and ask students what part of the country is comes from, just a a quick introduction to a lesson on the Long Hot Summer riots of 1967
White Man's Guilt - James Baldwin , Ebony Magazine August 1965
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (1957)
This executive order of September 23, 1957, signed by President Dwight Eisenhower, sent Federal troops to maintain order and peace while the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, AR, took place.
Brown v. Board of Education and the ... - Google Books
Brown v. Board of Education (I),1954
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. Exhibit from OurDocuments
American Experience . Roads to Memphis | PBS
The international man hunt to capture the killed of Martin Luther King. Companion site for American Experience documentary with articles, timeline and links to resources
"The Only Good Pig Is a Dead Pig": A Black Panther Paper Editor Explains a Political Cartoon
“What I Tell My Child About Color” - Article
“The Negro Voter: Can He Elect a President?” - Article
'This Is How We Lost to the White Man' The audacity of Bill Cosby's black conservatism
This article could be used with a lesson that explores the modern version of the WEB du Bois and Booker T Washington debate
The Newark Riots Part1- One version of the Story - AR15.Com Archive
Please note the hosting site when looking at this report on the Newark Riots of 1967. This site is chose specifically because of the nature of its perspective's influence on its depiction of the story fo the riots. Students can compare this version of the story with another to find words that shape the readers understanding of the riots. How are the authors of this site shaping readers' opinions
The trumpet of Conscience : By Martin Luther King, jr : Internet Archive
The text of five lectures that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and December 1967 for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
American Rhetoric: Malcolm X - The Ballot or the Bullet (3 April 1964)
Flag Talk:
Do students in New Jersey know or care about high school's in Kentucky who have "rebels" as a mascot?
Rioting: An American Tradition : We're History
This article can be used several US History units. It would fit in the Revolution, Civil War, the Gilded Age, Progressive Era and the Civil Rights movement. It shows synthesis across time and links riots in American history to a common theme. This can be used solely for content, but more effectively in demonstrating how connections can be found and themes crafted.
Boston in 1773,
90,000 pounds of tea, worth about $1.7 million today.
May 1849
25 people were killed and more than 120 injured in a struggle over which Shakespearean actor was better:
The Astor Place Riot
At least 120 people died and another 2000 were injured. Rioters destroyed between 1 and 5 million dollars in property, about fifty buildings, including two churches and an orphan asylum for African American children. In today’s dollars, that would be between $20 million and about $96 million in damage.
Cincinnati
March 1884
50 people dead (but not the prisoner, who had temporarily escaped) and more than 300 wounded
Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914,
killing between 20 and 26
Three days of race riots in Detroit, in 1943,
three African Americans
The fighting left 34 dead.
September 29, 1962,
Oxford, Mississippi
Two civilians were killed and more than 300 wounded
Watts
week in August 1965
Thirty-four people died and more than $40 million worth of property was destroyed before 4,000 members of the California National Guard restored order
Rodney King riots of 1992
six days, 53 people were killed, more than 2,000 injured, and more than $1 billion in property was destroyed.
As long as America is a democracy, we will have riots.
Civil Rights Act (1964)
This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
Loving v. Virginia
Students may not believe that a man and wife went to jail for getting married in Virginia in 1958. This ordinarily would not be a crime, but Mildred was African-American and RIchard was not. This Supreme Court decision is used as the basis for attacks against laws forbidding same-sex marriages. Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
The Making of African American Identity: 1917-1968, National Humanities Center
A collection of primary resources-historical documents, literary texts,and works of art-thematically organized with notes and discussion questions from National Humanities Center from National Humanities Center
The Impossible Victory: Vietnam
from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"
America in Ferment: The Tumultuous 1960s: Digital History
This chapter examines the Civil Rights struggle against segregation and racial equality; the feminist fight for equal educational and employment opportunity; the Mexican American battle against discrimination in voting, education, and employment; the Native American campaign for tribal sovereignty and land rights; the gay and lesbian drive to end discrimination based on sexual preference; and the environmentalist campaign to reduce pollution and promote conservation.
Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan: The two girls in the Little Rock Picture
This article traces the lives of two girls caught in history and preserved through one of the most iconic images of the Civil Right Movement. You'll recognize Hazel Bryan's face the second you see it, and you'll remember Elizabeth Blackwell as well - this excerpt from a book chronicling their lives shows what happened to them afterwards.
New Jersey's Apartheid and Intensely Segregated Urban Schools
How many New Jersey teachers realize that one out of 4 black students in New Jersey attend schools with a population that is less than 1% white? This Rutgers University report shows how New Jersey has the third highest fraction of its black students in apartheid schools, following only Illinois and Michigan. Prepared by UCLA's Civil Rights Project and the Rutgers University's Institute on Educational Law and Policy, this report concludes that although New Jersey is a rich, largely suburban state with an educated population, with growing diversity, and a tradition of strong public schools, its black students face far more extreme school segregation than black students in the South
Alex Haley interviews Malcolm X
There's a lot of good material here, certainly come of it can be mined for a good civil rights lesson. This is an interview with Playboy Magazine
Is Civil Disobedience Ever Justified as a Method of Political Change?
Great debate series. Two short readings with comprehension and critical thinking questions. Letter from Birmingham Clergy to King compared against King's letter from a Birmingham Jail