See also:
Civil Rights -- African Americans
- Brown v. Board of Education
- 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 Resource Guide
From the Library of Congress, " a wide variety of material related to civil rights, including photographs, documents, and sound recordings."
- Crossroads to Freedom
" Crossroads to Freedom connects a digital archive of materials from the Civil Rights era in Memphis, TN ... We have over 70 oral history interviews, along with Judge Russell Sugarmon's papers, the 1962 Hearings of the Commission on Civil Rights and more."
- Finishing the Dream: Learning from the Civil Rights Era
Free online video series from NBC News.
- Freedom Riders
From WGBH, a companion website to a film which tells "the story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South."
- 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.
- The History of Jim Crow
"Explore the complex African-American experience of segregation from the 1870s through the 1950s."
- National Civil Rights Museum
Virtual tour of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Powerful Days in Black and White
"Shocking photos brought the civil rights struggle to all America. Relive it now through the eyes of photojournalist Charles Moore."
- Riding Freedom: 10 Milestones in U.S. Civil Rights History
Discusses the Freedom Riders and other important events in the history of U.S. civil rights. From the Britannica blog.
- Say Brother
"Say Brother, now known as Basic Black, is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for, and about African Americans. The archival collection, consisting primarily of broadcast programs and original footage, dates between 1968 and 1982."
- Stories of Freedom and Justice
A retrospective about the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins of 1960.
- Television News of the Civil Rights Era
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."
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