Civil Rights 

See also : African Americans -- Human Rights -- U.S. Constitution -- Women's History

Arab Americans  American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Arab American Institute  Caught in the Crossfire Muslim Americans (Pew Report) Muslim Life in America 

Freedom of Religion  ACLU: Religious Liberty  Americans United for Separation of Church and State  Foundation for Religious Freedom  Digital Freedom Network  Freedom of Religion (legal decisions) International Association for Religious Freedom  Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance  Religious Freedom Homepage  RJ&L Religious Liberty Archive

Freedom of Speech  ALA: Banned Books Week ACLU: Free Speech  Chilling Effects Clearinghouse Electronic Frontier Foundation The File Room (exhibit) First Amendment Center First Amendment Handbook The First Amendment Project The Free Expression Policy Project Index on Censorship  National Coalition Against Censorship  Reporters Without Borders Thomas Jefferson Center

• About.com: Civil Liberties
  Annotated links to websites about various civil liberties issues.
• ACLU
  The American Civil Liberties Union has information on a wide range of social issues from criminal justice to free speech to religious liberty to workplace rights.
• American Ethnic Geography
  Companion to a college course, this site features maps showing the ethnic groups, culture regions, religions, languages, politics, and socio-economics in the U.S. and Canada.
• American Labor History
  History of labor in America from colonial days to the present, with links to other sites about labor past and present.
• Amnesty International USA
  "Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization ... focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination.... " Also publishes an Annual Report on Human Rights.
• Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
  Information on Asian/Pacific Americans and their history.
• Best Information on the Net: Hot Paper Topics
  Links to information about "hot issues", including affirmative action, censorship, the death penalty, gender issues,human rights, internet issues, smoking and tobacco, and more.
• Book Burning
  Information on and links to sites about censorship and book burning, especially in the United States. From the American Library Association.
• Center for Media Literacy Reading Room
  Online articles about issues such as media violence, television and children, and values and the media.
• Civil Rights Digital Library
  "The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale."
• The Civil Rights Documentation Project
  A detailed timeline covering civil rights from 1963-1965 in the U.S.
• Civil Rights Era TV News
  This site "aims to collect, digitize, and present in streaming video format over the World Wide Web television news footage from the period and to make these valuable materials available to scholars, teachers, and students."
• Civil Rights.org
  Current issues in civil rights, focusing on policy and legislation, with hate crime information and statistics, and the "Civil Rights Monitor" journal online.
• Civil Rights Suite
  "As current debates surrounding civil liberties, immigration, and changing demographics increase, CHSA is at the forefront of the movement to examine the historical impact of the Chinese American fight for equality on our society."
• Economic Research Service - USDA
  Facts about agriculture, hunger, the food supply, and related issues from the U.S. Departement of Agriculture.
• Facing History and Ourselves
  "Facing History helps students find meaning in the past and recognize the need for participation and responsible decision making. ... Facing History believes that students must be trusted to examine history in all of its complexities, including its legacies of prejudice and discrimination, resilience and courage."
• GlobalLex: International Human Rights Research Guide
  Links to documents, international organizations, news sources, and educational websites.
• Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
  Hosted by the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, this special collection includes hundred of articles (mostly in .pdf format) from the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1957 through the present.
• An Introduction to Social Policy
  "This set of web pages offers a brief outline of key topics and issues in Social Policy."
• IPL: Social Issues and Social Welfare Resources
  Annotated links about various social issues.
• LEST WE FORGET
  "The history, culture, preservation efforts, and current events of African-Americans, other ethnic, non-ethnic groups and individuals" with plenty of links and a special focus on military history.
• Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
  Created by the NY Public Library and the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture "To mark the United Nations International Year to Commenorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (2004). Requires Flash.
• Minority Links
  "Quick and easy links to the latest data on racial and ethnic populations in the United States" from the U.S. Census Bureau.
• National Civil Rights Museum
  Virtual tour of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
• Public Agenda Online
  "Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization" which supplies information about current social and political issues. Great source for quick facts and figures.
• Race: Are We So Different?
  "Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race."
• Social Statistics Briefing Room
  Federal statistics about crime, demographics, education, and health.
• Sweatshop Watch
  "Sweatshop Watch serves low-wage workers nationally and globally, with a focus on eliminating sweatshop exploitation in California's garment industry."
• Tolerance.org
  "Daily news about groups and individuals working for tolerance and fighting hate; Guidebooks for adult and youth activists; Practical resources for parents and teachers; and Entertaining and educational games for young children."
• Tracked in America
  "This documentary Web site explores more than two centuries of surveillance in America. Included are two hours of audio interviews, 300 photographs, and 25 personal stories beginning in 1917."
• Understanding Prejudice
  "Web site for students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice ... (with) more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources, as well as searchable databases with hundreds of prejudice researchers and social justice organizations."
• U.S. Dept. of Justice: Trafficking in Persons
  US DOJ information on human trafficking - modern slavery - in the U.S.
• World Values Survey
  "A worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change." Downloadable.