Resources related to the Civil Rights Movement
A voice: African American Voices in Congress
“Designed to capture and preserve the rich history of political and legislative contributions of blacks for future generations.”
Black Past
BlackPast.org brings the resources of African American history into every classroom in the world. It also makes every computer, regardless of its location, a classroom in African American history.
https://www.blackpast.org/about-us/
https://www.blackpast.org/tag/civil-rights-activists/
Center for Constitutional Rights An organization that stands with social movements and communities resisting oppression, we know that change is possible when artists, storytellers, and lawyers dream together.
https://ccrjustice.org/black-history-month-activism-through-artists-lawyers-and-storytellers
Civil Rights Digital Library
Online collection of multimedia primary resources documenting the Civil Rights movement. Includes texts, photographs, video, and sound files.
Civil Rights History project—Library of Congress
On May 12, 2009, the U. S. Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). The law directed the Library of Congress to conduct a national survey of existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights movement to obtain justice, freedom and equality for African Americans and to record and make widely accessible new interviews with people who participated in the struggle.
The activists interviewed for this project belong to a wide range of occupations, including lawyers, judges, doctors, farmers, journalists, professors, and musicians, among others. The video recordings of their recollections cover a wide range of topics within the freedom struggle, such as the influence of the labor movement, nonviolence and self-defense, religious faith, music, and the experiences of young activists. Actions and events discussed in the interviews include the Freedom Rides (1961), the Albany Movement (1961), the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), the Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965), the Orangeburg Massacre (1968), the Poor People’s Campaign (1968), sit-ins, and voter registration drives in the South.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/about-this-collection/
Civil Rights Movement
A chronological look at activism and civil rights from the History Channel.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
Library of Congress—Youth in the Civil Rights Movement
Reflections about young people in the freedom struggle.
The official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Information on the organization and key figures involved in the NAACP.
Located at the Lorraine Motel, the site of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, the museum chronicles key episodes of the American civil rights movement.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
In many ways, there are few things as powerful and as important as a people, as a nation that is steeped in its history. Often America is celebrated as a place that forgets. This museum seeks to help all Americans remember, and by remembering, this institution will stimulate a dialogue about race and help to foster a spirit of reconciliation and healing.
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