Civil Rights Movements, Topics & Eras
From CRBSLS
RESOURCES IN AREA SCHOOL LIBRARIES
CAPITAL REGION BOCES UNION CATALOG. This is a catalog of all of the resources in most of our local schools. You can do a search here using your keywords. Find a title and contact us (464-5104) or Mrs. VanHoomissen and let us know that you'd like to use the resource. We will get it from the local library and send it to you at TVHS.
SEARCH TOOLS FOR THE DEEP WEB
Clusty. Deep web search tool. Use your keywords in the search box.
Highwire from Stanford University. Use this search tool for scholarly works. Unfortunately some rquire that you pay for the full text. But you should also find some good resources available at no cost. Additionally, your librarians can get resources from other libraries through interlibrary loan. You just need to ask.
THOMAS. Legislative information from the Library of Congress.
New York State Archives. You will be amazed a how much history of all sorts of civil rights happened right here in New York State. And this site has a great collection of primary source documents to support your research. Most have been scanned and are right on the site.
PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS FOR EVERYONE
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Click on News & Commentary for summaries of current civil rights issues. Click on "Key Issues" for an overview of all of the work that this organization takes on.
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History From The Saga of Eric The Red to Barak Obama's address to Congress on Health Care (September 9, 2009. It will help if you have some background knowledge first here and have an idea of what you are looking for because there is no keyword search. Still, just about everything is here!
American Memory - From the Library of Congress, this National Digital Library contains more than 40 collections, which feature historical photos, maps, documents, letters, speeches, recordings, videos, prints, and more.
Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. All sorts of court cases and legal challenges. Brought to you by the University of Michigan Law School. It will help a lot here if you have some good background knowledge and know what you are looking for before you begin. use the "Search" link across the top. As you will see, the more information you are able to fill in here, the better your hits. Use the dropdown menus to see the large of variety of cases considered to be civil rights cases.
Historical Publications of the United State Commission on Civil Rights - From the University of Maryland Thurgood Marshall Law Library. This is a complex site but it is crammed full of good information. For best use, read the Navigation Tips and Background Reading FIRST!
Library of Congress. Legislative information, historical exhibits, primary source materials, resources for educators, research tools, and more are available from the Library of Congress. Use the "search" box on the upper right and enter your keywords.
Prentice-Hall Documents This is an overview of Civil Rights Acts from 1866 to 1991.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS
Documenting the American South - From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this site provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Documents of the Southern Freedom Movement This looks like a very grass-roots collection of many of the lesser known participants in the Southern Freedom Movement. I recommend a double check on the validity of these folks and their documents where possible. Still, good information here that may not be found elsewhere. Also - there's a poetry section including many lesser-known poets but also some big names like Langston Hughes etc.
Lest We Forget: Images of the Civil Rights MovementLots of people here, their images , either photographed or artistic, along with brief biographical information. Good for background knowledge.
Timeline of the Civil Rights Era from 1954 - 1971 From African American World, a PBS production. Contains a great timeline with links to people, places and events.
University of Oklahoma Law Center This site offers an extensive directory of historical documents from pre-colonial days to the present. Many presidential inaugural addresses are included, as are some songs, poems, letters, and more. Also includes the Civil rights Act of 1991.
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement Background, interactive maps, a list of sites and more about several dozen houses, schools, churches, and buildings associated with civil rights activism and events.
Civil Rights Digital Library Hosted at the University of Georgia. Use the sidebar menus and basic search tool to drill into your keyword or topic. You should find photographs, primary source documents and essays about people, places and events.
Civil Rights Museum The National Civil Rights Museum, located at the Lorraine Motel, the assassination site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., chronicles key episodes of the American civil rights movement and the legacy of this movement to inspire participation in civil and human rights efforts globally, through our collections, exhibitions, and educational programs.
PERSONAL NARRATIVES
Powerful Days; The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore This well regarded photo-journalist captured the faces of the people throughout the Civil rights era.
Voices of Civil Rights This site collects and preserves "personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all."
SPECIFIC EVENTS, PEOPLE or PLACES
Atlanta In The Civil Rights Movement From the Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education, this site highlights the many events and people relevant to the Civil Rights Era in Atlanta, Georgia.
Civil Rights in Mississippi Hosted by the McCain Library and Archives at the University of Southern Mississippi. Especially useful here - click on Manuscripts and Photographs for an in-depth collection of personal narratives, documents, letters and photographs.
[http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/februaryone/ February 1: The Story of the Greensboro Four.
Greensboro SitIn: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks; How I Fought For Civil Rights. This is a Scholastic lesson plan but there are a lot of supporting resources on this site.
ANTI_COMMUNIST BACKLASH
Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (McCarthy Hearings 1953-54) The McCarthy hearings have been published and can be found in their entirety here.
"Have You No Sense of Decency?" The Army-McCarthy Hearings. Some basic background information here but the treasure trove is at the bottom. Lots of live links to primary source supporting documents.
NATIVE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS
American Indian Movement This is a bibliographic resource. Your librarian should be able to get some of these resources for you through interlibrary loan.
Civil Rights and American Indians: History and Law From FindLAw - a database used by the legal profession. Try other keywords in the Search box.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment from the National Organization of Women. Includes a timeline with relevant links.
Gender Discrimination. From Findlaw - a database for the legal profession.
Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. The timeline runs from 1848 to 1994, with brief notes on people and events, some linked to related articles.
CIVIL RIGHTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
ACLU: Stand Up! Press releases, legal documents, fact sheets, and other resources from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on constitutional rights topics pertaining to students and young people. On the top menu, click on "Issues" for some deep information.
