Teaching the Civil Rights Unit
Dave Horton
Whitney Point School District
Web Resources
Southern Defense of Segregated Education
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/scho.htm
The Southern Manifesto
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/manifesto.htm
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/nvsageh/Hist122?Part4/CRact57.htm
Jack O'Dell on organizing
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6926/
Letter from Jackie Robinson to Eisenhower, 1958
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroon/lessons/jackie_robinson/letter_1958.html
Interview with Rosa Parks
http://achievement.org/autodoc/page/%09%09%09par0int-1
Photos from Central High School
http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/central/counts.html
Eisenhower on Mob Rule
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6335/
Executive order 10730
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=89
Testimony of an African American unable to vote in Alabama
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6334/
Photo of Orval Faubus
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/2142/mcms.html
Marin Luther King Jr. Adress to the First Montgomery Improvment Association
http://www.stanford.edu/group/king/publications/speeches/MIA_mass_meeting_at_holt_street.html
Martin Luther King Jr., "Give us the Ballot"
http://www.stanford.edu/group/king/publications/speeches/Give_us_the_ballot.html
Link to photos of Eugene "Bull" Connor and Audio file
http://pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web14/segment6.html
Photos from 1963 church bombings and pictures of the four girls killed
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htm
Writings and Quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.members.aol.com/klove01/martinsp.htm
SNCC Founding Statement
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SNCC_founding.html
SNCC Position Paper: The Basis of Black Power
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SNCC_black_power.html
SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SNCC_women.html
Black Student Unions
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/BSU_platform.html
Slide show of Freedom Summer
http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/oh_freedom/index.html
Audio files of oral histories, including Fannie Lou Hamer, James Randolph
http://anna.lib.usm.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/57/49?user_id=ARCHIVE
Television News about Civil Rights
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/
An Oral History Project about 1968
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968
Photos and accounts of 1966 Meredith March
http://www.jofreeman.com/photos/meredith.html
Letters from James Meredith concerning the integration of Ole Miss
http://www.jfklibrary.org/meredith/jm.html
"I can't fight alone," James Meredith
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6326/
FBI documents of SNCC
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/sncc.htm
Documents of the case against the murders of James Cheney, Andrew Goodman and Mike Schwerner - includes FBI missing poster
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/price&bowers.htm
Photos of vigil outside of 1964 Democratic Convention
http://www.jofreeman.com/photos/mfdp2.html
http://www.jofreeman.com/photos/mfdp1.html
Photos of Selma to Montgomery March, 1965
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm
More pictures from "Bloody Sunday"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar07.html
Political cartoons from the 1960s
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/animal.html
The history of Jim Crow
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org
Student Project for African-American History
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/
Online resource about the Civil Righs Movement
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilrights.htm
Civil Rights Theme Park
http://www.uen.org/themepark/html/liberty/civilrights.html
Martin Luther King Jr., "I have a Dream" speech
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/texts/mlkdream.html
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html
List of documents by and about Malcolm X
http://www.malcolm-x.org/docs/
Malcolm X's speeches
http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/malcolm.htm
Documents on Malcolm X, including letter from Mecca
http://www.members.aol.com/klove01/malcomsp.htm
Photos of Elijah Muhammad
http://www.noi.org/elijah_muhammad_history.htm
Audio speech by H. Rap Brown
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_397.html
George C. Wallace, "The Civil Rights Movement"
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/texts/wallace64.html
LBJ speech on the Civil Rights Act of 1964
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_144.html
The history of Jim Crow website with teachers resources
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm
The rise and fall of Jim Crow with teachers resources
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
Remembering Jim Crow with photos and audio interviews
http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering/
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Bridge Builders Guide
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