Civil Rights Movement
By: Jessica Watrous
Civil Rights: a status report (Introduction) This site contains short histories on several of the major figures in the Civil Rights Movement, from Malcolm X to MLK, Jr.
Welcome to The National Civil Rights Museum This site is a tour of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN. The site contains an interactive tour of the museum for those that can not visit it in person.
Famous Speeches of the Civil Rights Movement This site offers links to many of the famous speechs of the Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech.
An Analysis of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Legislated Response to Racial Discrimination in the U. S. This link offers a look at the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and analysis of it.
African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement This site offers a look at many of the important women that played a role in the Civil Rights Movement.
THE BLACK PANTHERS This site offers a look at the Black Panthers and the militant arm of the Civil Rights Movement.
Freedom Rides This site contains speeches from 2 freedom riders and their journey.
Seattle Times: Photo Tour of the Civil Rights Movement This site is a photo history of the Civil Rights Movement.
Home Page - Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site This is a National Park Service site about this historic place maintained by the National Park Service in Altanta, GA.
Civil Rights Movement
By: Jessica Watrous
Martin
Luther King Jr.
National Civil Rights
Museum
"The Museum houses over 10,000 square feet of permanent
exhibits,
an auditorium, a courtyard for dramatic presentations,
a changing
gallery, a gift shop, and staff offices. Its
permanent exhibits present a
timeline of civil rights struggle relating
to African-Americans and
concentrating on the seminal events of the
1950s and 1960s."
Media
and the Civil Rights Movement
This site offers information on
the Media role in the civil rights movement. This site tells how
the media is resopablile
for bringing inequalities and mistreatments that were occuring to
the
entire nation.
Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
This site offers a personal history of the civil
rights movement in five Southern communities
and the music of those times. You can take
part in a on-line discussion about the civil rights
movement as well as heard real audio from famous
speeches of the rights movement.
American
Women Who Shaped the Civil Rights Movement Explored Through the Literature
of Eloise Greenfield
"The history of women who worked for
civil rights in the twentieth century
using
the writings of Eloise Greenfield, an African American children's author,
as a springboard.
The lives
of Ella Baker, Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary
Church Terrell,
and
Ida
Wells-Barnett lend themselves for study."
TrackStar: Influential
People of the Civil Rights Movement
A list of influential people of the Civil Rights
Movement. From Martin Luther King Jr. to 4
little girls, this site offers a summary of site,
where you can find more information about them
Historic Audio
Archive
Voice of the Civil
Right Movements. Heard real audio of what famous figures have had
to say about
the civil rights movement.
The
Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68.
"The civil
rights movement cannot be understood without contemplating the photographs
which captured it-photographs that movingly document the triumphs and atrocities
of a
struggle that would change history."
Young and
Civil Rights Movement Timeline
Significant Events in the Life of Andrew Young and
the Civil Rights Movement.
"Andrew Young is an ordained minister of the United
Church of Christ and a graduate of
Howard University and Hartford Theological Seminary.
Formerly Executive Director of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he was
elected to Congress from the Fifth
Congressional District of Georgia, and in
1977 President Carter named him U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations."
Mother
Of Civil Rights Movement Honored With Library And Museum
"Rosa Parks, Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, is being honored by
Troy State University of Montgomery, Alabama with a $7.5 million
project composed of a library and museum."