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Home Instruction Handouts Resources


RESOURCES - BOOKS

Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s, Henry Hampton and Steve Frayer, Bantam Books, 1990.

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., Clayborne Carson, ed., Warner Books, 1998.

The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader, Clayborne Carson, David Garrow, Gerald Gill, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark Hine, general editors, Penguin Books, 1991.

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, Taylor Branch, Simon and Schuster, 1988.


RESOURCES - WEBSITES

The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project – Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

"Civil Rights Timeline" -The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/

"The Montgomery Bus Boycott Page" - Ellis M. Jones, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
http://socsci.colorado.edu/~jonesem/montgomery.html

National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, Selma, Alabama

"The Civil Rights Era" - The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, U. S. Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

"Civil Rights in Mississippi" - McCain Library & Archives, University of Southern Mississippi, Digital Archive
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/index.html

"Birmingham Civil Rights Institute" - 520 Sixteenth Street North Birmingham, Alabama 35203
http://bcri.bham.al.us/

"My Name Is Freedom Albany, Georgia" - Excerpt from You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train, by Howard Zinn

"Brown v. Board of Education" - Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site,
424 S. Kansas Avenue, Suite 220, Topeka, Kansas 66603-3441
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/home.htm

"Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement" - Western Michigan University, Department of Political Science.
http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/

"Memphis: We Remember" - the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees honoring King and 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike.
http://www.afscme.org/about/memphist.htm


"Powerful Days in Black and White," - Charles Moore's black and white images of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml


"National Civil Rights Museum" - A comprehensive overview of the civil rights movement in exhibit form
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

"SNCC 1960-1966: Six Years of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee"
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/index.html