U.S. History/Government
Civil Rights Project
(Brozovic / Naslund 1999-2012)
General Civil Rights Sites
Key Figures
Key Events
Key Issues
Key Organizations
Civil War Reconstruction Links(including Jim Crow Laws, etc.)
Recordings
Student Presentation Links
GENERAL CIVIL RIGHTS SITES
Eyes on the Prize - Profiles (People, Groups, and Events (Responses)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/profiles/index.html
Civil Rights Digital Library - Collections A - Z
http://crdl.usg.edu/collections/
Unseen. Unforgotten. - A Special Report from the Birmingham News
http://www.al.com/unseen/
News archive of previously unseen images of civil rights movement in Birmingham.
The Civil Rights Era - Library of Congress
Part A - Desegregation and Civil Rights in the Arena and on the Stage http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html
Part B - Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and Demonstrations
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html
Civil Rights Movement - CNN
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html
Civil Rights Movement - History.com
http://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement
Civil Rights Timeline - Infoplease
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html%20
African-American Civil Rights Movement 1955-1968 - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_%281955%E2%80%931968%29
The Civil Rights Movement - About.com
http://americanhistory.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=americanhistory&cdn=education&tm=29&f=20&tt=14&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html
Civil War to Civil Rights: Downtown Heritage Trail - Cultural Tourism DC
http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/things-do-see/trails-tours/neighborhood-heritage-trails/civil-war-civil-rights-downtown-heritage-tra
Tour of Washington, DC.
Key Figures
Louis Armstrong
http://www.gatewayno.com/music/armstrong.html
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_armstrong_louis.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong
http://www.redhotjazz.com/louie.html
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
http://www.humanmedia.org/catalog/program.php?products_id=328
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhKew1z2UcY
http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/hurricane.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Carter
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter: A Trial without Justice (1999 film)
"The Hurricane" Misleads a Trusting Public
http://www.irazoo.com/ViewSite.aspx?q=rubin+hurricane+carter+movie&Page=&irp=&Site=http://graphicwitness.com/carter/moviepoints.html
The Sarokin Decision (the Federal District Court Ruling that set Carter free and which is quoted
at the end of the movie)
http://www.graphicwitness.com/carter/sarokin.html
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter: The Other Side of the Story
http://www.graphicwitness.com/carter/
Song Lyrics - Hurricane
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Hurricane-lyrics-Bob-Dylan/2E9FFB25FF6016164825696900386AA4
Song - Hurricane
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=715
Ernie Davis
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2399/Davis-Ernie.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Davis
http://www.answers.com/topic/ernie-davis
http://www.orangehoops.org/edavis.htm (includes statistics)
http://www.stargazettesports.com/ErnieDavis/
Ernie Davis: The "Elmira Express"
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/205915-ernest-ernie-davis-the-elmira-express
Ernie Davis' Last Down - Collaboration to Results, Spring 2008
http://www.crmagazine.org/archive/Spring2008/Pages/ErnieDavisLastDown.aspx
"I Am Not Unlucky" by Ernie Davis - Saturday Evening Post, 1963
http://www.steele.lib.ny.us/famouselmira/ed_sat_eve_post.htm
Why We Remember Ernie Davis - Syracuse Post-Standard
http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/2008/09/why_we_remember_ernie_davis.html
Medgar Evers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-medgar-evers
http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/eversm.html
http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/evers_medgar/index.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1294360
Beckwith Convicted of Killing Medgar Evers - Feb. 5, 1994
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/beckwith-convicted-of-killing-medgar-evers
Myrlie and Medgar Evers Struggle Still Matters Today - Jan. 21, 2013
http://thegrio.com/2013/01/21/myrlie-and-medgar-evers-civil-rights-struggle-still-matters-today/
Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/civil_rights_leaders.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_rights_leaders
James Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/hughes
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/cora/hughes_timeline.html (Hughes Timeline)
http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Hughes.htm (critical literary history)
http://aalbc.com/authors/langston.htm (annotations on his books)
http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lhughes.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/hughes.html
Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr
http://www.thekingcenter.org/about-dr-king
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96jan/king.html
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/index.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/
http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086
James Meredith
http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/meredith_james/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmeredith.htm
http://www.historycentral.com/Bio/people/Meredith.html
Dorie Miller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Miller
http://www.pearlharbor.org/dorie-miller.asp
http://www.doriemiller915.org/doriemiller.htm
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/miller-doris-dorie-1919-1943
http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/MILLER.HTM
http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/interactive/miller1mov.html - Audio account of untold story
Cook Third Class Doris Miller, USN
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq57-4.htm
Remember Pearl Harbor: Seaman Dorie Miller
http://www.nps.gov/pwso/honor/miller.htm
Pearl Harbor Remembers Dorie Miller - Movie based on Miller's life
http://www.blackflix.com/articles/dorie.miller.html
Beyond the Movie: Pearl Harbor - Ship's Cook Third Class Doris Miller
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/ngbeyond/people/index.html
Rosa Parks
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/parks_r.htm
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
http://www.rosaparks.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=118&Itemid=60
http://www.africanaonline.com/2010/08/rosa-parks-overview/
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=117\
http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/meet-rosa-parks
http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/rosa_parks.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
Jackie Robinson
See also Key Issues - Sports Breakthroughs
http://www.jackierobinson.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson
http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/robinson01.html
http://baseballhall.org/hof/robinson-jackie
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jr1860s.html (Timeline)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/honormlk/jrtimes.htm (Timeline)
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/robinson_j.htm
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/jackie-robinson/
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/robinson.htm (Jackie Robinson Breaks Baseball's Color Barrier, 1945)
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016431.html
http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/jackie/ (Anniversary and Original News Articles from Time Period)
http://www.evesmag.com/robinson.htm
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrabout.html
Bobby Seale
http://www.bobbyseale.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Seale
Who Were the Chicago Eight?
http://www.wisegeek.com/who-were-the-chicago-eight.htm
Emmett Till
http://www.emmetttillstory.com/
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/emmett.html
http://www.emmetttillmurder.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
The Murder of Emmett Till - PBS' American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/
The Lynching of Emmett Till - The Heroism Project
http://www.heroism.org/class/1950/heroes/till.htm
House of the Rising Sun - Tune for The Death of Emmett Till (Song by Bob Dylan)
http://theband.hiof.no/albums/boot_genuine_bootleg_series_take_2.html
Lyrics - The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/youre-big-girl-now?field_lyrics_value=emmett+till
The Murder of Emmett Till
http://www.folkarchive.de/deathof.html
Note: Alternate lyrics to Bob Dylan's song, The Death of Emmett Till performed in
concert. Audio and music clips are not working, but lyrics are presented.
Ida Wells-Barnett
(see also Key Events - Lynchings)
http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Wells-Barnett_Ida_Bell.html
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/barn-ida.htm
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wells.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwells.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells
http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html
http://www.africawithin.com/bios/ida_wells.htm
http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/wells-barnett_ida/index.html
http://www.idabwells.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=53
Roy Wilkins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Wilkins
http://www.historycentral.com/bio/people/Wilkins.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwilkins.htm
Malcolm X
http://www.malcolmx.com/about/bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X
http://www.africawithin.com/malcolmx/malcolm_bio.htm
http://brothermalcolm.net/
http://www.brothermalcolm.net/mxtimeline.html (Chronology)
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/index.html
Malcolm X - An Islamic Perspective
http://www.colostate.edu/orgs/MSA/find_more/m_x.html
Key Events
Birmingham
Birmingham Campaign
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1358
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_campaign
Birmingham’s Civil Rights District
http://www.proseandphotos.com/birmingham.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Civil_Rights_District
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/birmingham_1963.htm
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: A Memorial to the Civil Rights Struggle
http://www.black-collegian.com/issues/30thAnn/civilrightsinstitute2001-30th.shtml
Birmingham Civil Rights Demonstration - Picture History
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/3322/mcms.html
Birmingham - African American Heritage
http://www.birminghamal.org/ttd-aframheritage.html
Brown vs. Board of Education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
Plessy v. Ferguson: Harlan's Great Dissent (1896)
http://www.law.louisville.edu/library/collections/harlan/dissent
The Brown Decision
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=87
"Southern Defense of Segregated Education"
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/scho.htm
The Southern Manifesto 1956
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/manifesto.htm
Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (1957)
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=89
Civil Rights Act of 1957
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957
http://crdl.usg.edu/events/civil_rights_act_1957/?Welcome
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1957_civil_rights_act.htm
Jack O'Dell on Civil Rights Organizing
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6926/
Letter from Jackie Robinson: Civil Rights Advocate
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/jackie_robinson_letter/
Freedom Rides
http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom%20rides.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/rides.html
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/freeride.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_riders
The Freedom Riders: An American Experience - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
Freedom Summer
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/09_summer.html
http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom_summer.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/freedom-summer (includes videos)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfreedomS.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Summer
Greensboro Sit Ins
http://www.sitins.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
Photos http://www.sitins.com/photogallery.shtml
Timeline http://www.sitins.com/timeline.shtml
The Woolworth Sit-In That Launched a Movement - NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18615556
Sitting for Justice
http://americanhistory.si.edu/about/pubs/yeingst1.pdf
Harlem Renaissance
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/harlem.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/9intro.html (More in-depth links)
http://www2.si.umich.edu/chico/Harlem/timex/timeline.html (Timeline 1900-1940 Year by Year
Events & Artists)
http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/performers/timeline.htm (Timeline of Styles and Performers)
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/circle/harlem-ren-sites.html (Timeline and Links)
http://www.iniva.org/harlem/chron.html (Chronology)
http://www.iniva.org/harlem/index2.html (Art of the Harlem Renaissance)
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/58 (Poets, Poems, Essays & Inteviews - Harlem
Renaissance Authors)
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19694 (Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance)
http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htm (includes a map of Harlem during the Renaissance)
The Harlem Renaissance: An Artistic Explosion (Video)
http://www.history.com/videos/the-harlem-renaissance-an-artistic-explosion#the-harlem-renaissance-an-artistic-explosion
Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
http://www.iniva.org/exhibitions_projects/1997/rhapsodies_in_black_art_of_the_harlem_
renaissance1
Especially useful for information about artists listed here. Media link to Exhibition photos is not functioning properly.
PBS Newshour Article on Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/february98/harlem_2-20.html
Little Rock
Little Rock Nine
http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/features_school.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine
http://www.centralhigh57.org/The_Little_Rock_Nine.html
http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=723
http://www.littlerock9.com/ (Click on Biographies Tab, then individual link)
Little Rock Central High School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Central_High_School
http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=718
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ar1.htm
http://littlerock.about.com/cs/centralhigh/a/Integration.htm
The Battle of Little Rock: Civil Rights Struggle Remembered
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-battle-of-little-rock-civil-rights-struggle-remembered-403423.html
Lynchings
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlynching.htm
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchstats.html (Statistics by State, Race,
Year, & Offense)
http://www.chesnuttarchive.org/classroom/lynchingstat.html (Statistics)
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lynching/lynching.htm (Lynching &
Anti-Lynching Campaigns)
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html (Lynchings & Race Riots
1880-1950)
Legacy of Lynching - PBS with Bill Moyer
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11232007/profile2.html
March on Washington - 1963
http://www.core-online.org/History/washington_march.htm
http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/washington.asp
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/marchonwashington.html
http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/marchonwashington/
http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/marchonwashington/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwashingtonM.htm
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_march_on_washington_ for_jobs_and_freedom/
http://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=96 (Official Program for the March)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom
The 40th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/march40th/
Martin L. King, Jr. Birthday Celebrations
http://www.king-raleigh.org/splash.htm (2012)
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_montgomery_bus_boycott_
1955_1956/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/montbus.html
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/montbus.html
http://www.racematters.org/boycott.htm (About the film)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/02_bus.html
The People, The Community, The Movement that Changed the World
http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/
Race Riots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_riot
http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/d_index.htm (Detroit, MI)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1316209/Americas-
long-list-of-race-riots.html (America's Long List of Race Riots)
America in Ferment : The Tumultuous 1960s
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=65
Selma March
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAselma.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0214523/selmamarch.htm
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_selma_1.html
Selma -to-Montgomery March
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm
http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/133semo/133selma.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/selma-montgomery-march (includes videos)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1114
http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/downloads/pdfs/Resource_Guide_Chapters/PictAmer_Resource_Book_Chapter_19B.pdf
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/selma-mont.shtm
Sixteenth Street Church Bombing - 1963
http://crdl.usg.edu/events/birmingham_bombing/?Welcome (Civil Rights Digital Library)http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al11.htm
http://www.useekufind.com/peace/peoplemag.htm (The Day the Children Died)
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htm
http://www.4littlegirls.com/ (Four Little Girls)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/clarion/kc_birmingham.html
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1963_birmingham_church_bombing.htm
http://www.bplonline.org/resources/digital_project/SixteenthStBaptistBomb.asp
(Primary sources including photographs, newspaper clippings, etc.)
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007/september/bapbomb_092609 (Summary of FBI
investigation with link to 3400 pages of BAPBOMB files resulting from the investigation)
16th Street Church Bombing: 40 Years Later
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1431932
Birmingham Bomb Kills 4 Negro Girls In Church; Riots Flare; 2 Boys Slain
New York Times Cover Page
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0915.html
KEY ISSUES
African American Race Issues of WWII
Double V Campaign
http://www.newsreel.org/guides/blackpress/treason.htm
http://hennessyhistory.wikispaces.com/Double+Victory+Campaign-1
http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED205956.pdf
Detroit Riots of 1943
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Race_Riot_(1943)
http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=185
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/eleanor-riots/
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/detroit-race-riot-1943
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1243 (review of book on topic)
A. Philip Randolph
http://www.nlc.edu/archives/activist.html
Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
(aka Fair Employment Act)
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=72
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_8802
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odex8802.html
Sports Breakthroughs Surrounding WWII (Corrected to HERE)
Walter White Letter to Jesse Owens (unsent)
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling
Jackie Robinson & Baseball's Color line
Jackie Robinson & Civil Rights Activism
KEY ORGANIZATIONS
ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org/
http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~aclu/anatl/
http://www.princeton.edu/~kdmukai/aclu.html
American Civil Rights Review
http://users.anet-stl.com/~civil/index.html
AUAA - Americans United for Affirmative Action
http://www.auaa.org/
Black Baseball's Negro Baseball Leagues
http://www.blackbaseball.com/
Black Panther Party
http://www.africana.com/tt_031.htm
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/01544.html(See librarian for user ID and password)
Black Panther Party Research Project
http://www.stanford.edu/group/blackpanthers/index.shtml
Black Panther Party - Photo Tour
http://www.bobbyseale.com/phototour/
A Brief History of the Black Panther Party - with Positive & Negative Contributions written by a former member
http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/students/pjaques/etext/acoli-hist-bpp.html
Black Panther Party Political Art
http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/african-american/twentieth_century/panthers.htm
Black Panthers and the Black Nationalist Movement (Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale)
Black Panther Party Platform. October 1966
Black Panther Web Site
Black Panther History
Background on Black Panthers
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
http://www.core-online.org/history/history.htm
http://www.core-online.org/history/history%20opening.htm (Other useful links)
Jackie Robinson Society
http://www.utexas.edu/students/jackie/
Ku Klux Klan
http://www.africana.com/tt_111.htm
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/07102.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk.htm
This article elaborates on the context in which the KKK developed.
Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party (MDFP)
History Lesson: The Summer When Everything Changed
http://catalystmagazine.net/issues/story.cfm?story=129
Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party
http://www.factbites.com/topics/Mississippi-Freedom-Democratic-Party
NAACP
The NAACP, The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) - Roy Wilkins, Medgar Evers, James Farmer, John Lewis, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown
