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- Kids and Teens: People and Society: Biography: Civil Rights Leaders (98)
- Reference: Museums: Cultural: Ethnic: African American (46)
- Society: Ethnicity: African: African-American: History (145)
- Society: Issues: Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations (399)
The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing
4littlegirls.com
Information and history of the Birmingham Church bombing of 1963.
Sojourn to the Past
sojournproject.org
Offers students, educators and parents the chance to travel for ten days through the South visiting the most dramatic sites and hearing the speakers that first witnessed and created the civil rights movement
Civil Rights History Guide - The History Beat
history.searchbeat.com
The Search Beat covers a variety of topics, including a Civil Rights History Guide with top Civil Rights history, timelines of the Civil Rights struggle, and resources. Well organized by time periods; includes civil rights photography.
Facing History and Ourselves
facinghistory.org
Educational organization. Video clips of individuals who involved the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 60s. Also describes educational and professional development programs and resources, lists regional offices, and provides news and event calendar.
Integrating Ole Miss
jfklibrary.org
The Kennedy Presidential Library's account of James Meredith, the African-American student whose attempt to register at the University of Mississippi in 1962 provoked violent confrontation. Time lines, biographical profiles, and primary sources.
Historic Places in the Civil Rights Movements
nps.gov
The National Parks Services' story of the Civil Rights Movement centered around places listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Mississippi Civil Rights Documentation Project
usm.edu
Funded by the Mississippi state legislature, presentation includes oral history bibliography, oral history transcripts, and civil rights timeline.
African American History: Welcome
watson.org
This project documents a selection of important events in African American history. Currently it begins with the 1857 Dred Scott case and continues through Plessy v. Ferguson, the civil rights movement from 1955-1965, and school integration. It may be expanded in the future to contain information on other topics as well.
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
lib.usm.edu
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations sponsored by The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.Mississippi was a focal point in the struggle for civil rights in America, and Hattiesburg, where USM is located, had the largest and most successful Freedom Summer project in 1964. The original sources collected in the state represent local collections with truly national significance. Digitization provides an opportunity to make indigenous resources of this type available to a worldwide audience.
Harry T. Moore Homesite - Mims, Florida
nbbd.com
Harry T. Moore Homesite site commemorates lives of two pioneering American Black civil rights workers, murdered in 1951. Organized first Brevard Co. Chapter NAACP in 1934, and led Florida fight for equality and justice. First killing of prominent civil rights leaders, historical spark helped ignite American civil rights movement.
Three Victims of the Freedom Summer 1964 Civil Rights Movement
yoyita.com
A sculptural portrayal of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, slain in the struggle for civil rights that they lived for, and that we all have.
The History of Jim Crow
jimcrowhistory.org
An educator's site that presents teachers with historical resources and teaching ideas on one of the most shameful periods in American history.
Milliken's Bend - Black Soldiers Defeat Confederates
millikensbend.org
Black soldiers vindicated President Abraham Lincoln by defeating Confederate soldiers at Milliken's Bend, in the critical battle for Vicksburg in the Civil War. As a result, most barriers to the enlistment and effective deployment of Colored recruits were eliminated in pursuit of the ultimate Union victory. Most of the Colored infantry had minimal training, were outnumbered and ill-equipped. Nevertheless, in close hand-to-hand combat, they routed the "Rebs" and won respect previously denied by both sides of the conflagration. Site features maps, links, historical articles, discussion group.
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
crmvet.org
Personal testimony and contact information from veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement.
American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
yale.edu
A course by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute featuring six women in the Civil Rights Movement based on the literature of Eloise Greenfield.
National Center for Public Policy Research: Brown v. Board of Education
nationalcenter.org
An unofficial text of the Supreme Court's landmark civil rights case. (May 17, 1954)
Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-Ins
sitins.com
The Greensboro News and Record and Public Library chronicle the 1960 sit-in movement with a timeline, photos, and voices of the participants.
Reporting Civil Rights
reportingcivilrights.org
Features reporters and journalism of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Voices of Civil Rights
voicesofcivilrights.org
The Voices of Civil Rights, a joint effort of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress collects and preserves untold accounts of the Civil Rights Movement.
A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
aphiliprandolphmuseum.com
Did you know...A. Philip Randolph first planned a March on Washington in 1941 to protest against governmental hiring practices that excluded African Americans from federal employment and federal contracts?
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2. How did the Supreme Court affect the civil rights movement from Scott to Bakke?
Q. 2. How did the Supreme Court affect the civil rights movement from Scott to Bakke?
Asked by bailey b - Sun Mar 29 22:55:06 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Dred Scott Case, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1856 57. It involved the then bitterly contested issue of the status of slavery in the federal territories. In 1834, Dred Scott, a black slave, personal servant to Dr. John Emerson, a U.S. army surgeon, was taken by his master from Missouri, a slave state, to Illinois, a free state, and thence to Fort Snelling (now in Minnesota) in Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise. There he married before returning with Dr. Emerson to Missouri in 1838. After Emerson's death, Scott sued (1846) Emerson's widow for freedom for himself and his family (he had two children) on the ground that residence in a free state and then in a free territory had ended his… [cont.]
Answered by queenE - Sun Mar 29 23:07:55 2009
Q. 2. How did the Supreme Court affect the civil rights movement from Scott to Bakke?
Asked by bailey b - Sun Mar 29 22:55:06 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. Dred Scott Case, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1856 57. It involved the then bitterly contested issue of the status of slavery in the federal territories. In 1834, Dred Scott, a black slave, personal servant to Dr. John Emerson, a U.S. army surgeon, was taken by his master from Missouri, a slave state, to Illinois, a free state, and thence to Fort Snelling (now in Minnesota) in Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise. There he married before returning with Dr. Emerson to Missouri in 1838. After Emerson's death, Scott sued (1846) Emerson's widow for freedom for himself and his family (he had two children) on the ground that residence in a free state and then in a free territory had ended his… [cont.]
Answered by queenE - Sun Mar 29 23:07:55 2009
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