Digital History
Digital History: To the Heart of Dixie
In the early 1960s civil rights activists put the ban on segregation to the test. In 1961, "Freedom riders," boarded buses headed south to test the federal ban on segregated travel. And in 1962, the University of Mississippi was ordered...
Digital History
Digital History: Birmingham, Alabama: Bombingham
The city that best exemplifies white resistance to integration and the tension and conflict of the civil rights movement is Birmingham, Alabama. Learn about events of and reactions to the civil rights movement of the early 1960s in...
Country Studies US
Country Studies: The Divided South
This site describes how after the Civil War, the South struggled to survive. By in large, efforts to attract industry failed and soon a strictly enforced social segregation system appeared and would last until well into the 20th century.
Free Management Library
Employee Law: Civil Rights Act of 1964
This site contains the original text of the legislation, with related links.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Forever Free: 19th Century African American Legislators: 1880s Repression
This several page article recounts the black legislators in the Texas Congress and their attempts to address many issues affecting the African Americans in the state. Read about the Ku Klux Klan, convict leases, and segregation on railroads
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The 1950s: Happy Days
A brief look at American life and politics in the 1950s with an increase in consumerism and fear of the Soviet Union.
Thurgood Marshall Website
Thurgood Marshall: The Bicentennial Speech: Remarks of Thurgood Marshall
Text of Thurgood Marshall's Bicentennial Speech given in 1987, in which Marshall pointed out the inadequacies of the U.S. Constitution in addressing civil rights and liberties.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Eugene "Bull" Connor
Brief biographical details on Eugene "Bull" Connor, Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham, AL in 1961. He was an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK known for enforcing racial segregation and denying civil rights to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Civil Rights Movement
[Free Registration/Login Required] Through this lesson, students identify individual, personal, and political rights (freedom of religion, freedom of speech, right to own property) by analyzing lives of historical African American...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Martin Luther King Jr.
[Free Registration/Login Required] Student understands the struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil liberties using Martin Luther King's speeches, History of holiday, biography and many other activities.
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: u.s. Supreme Court: Swann v. Board of Education (1971)
The decision for Swann vs. Board of Education of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, concerning the integration and desegration of public schools.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Birmingham Campaign
Kids learn about the history of the Birmingham Campaign that was part of the Civil Rights movement for African Americans against segregation and southern Jim Crow laws on this light.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Frederick Douglass
This site contains information about the biography of Frederick Douglass a slave who taught himself to read and then became a leader in fighting for the civil rights of African-Americans and women.
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Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Disability Rights Movement
Kids learn about the history of the Disability Rights Movement including the Architectural Barriers Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and famous disabled people on this site.
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Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: March on Washington
Study the history of the March on Washington including Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, the Big Six planners, and the results such as Civil Rights Act in 1964 on this site.
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Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Native American Rights
A site investigating the history of Native American Rights from the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears to the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968.
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Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Sojourner Truth
Kids learn about the biography of Sojourner Truth, a slave who escaped, fought for her son in the courts, and then became an abolitionist working for the freedom of all slaves on this site.
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Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Thurgood Marshall
On this site, students can learn about the biography of Thurgood Marshall.
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Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Jim Crow Laws
On this site,students learn about the history of Jim Crow Laws including segregation in the South, example laws, grandfather clauses, black codes, and how they got the name Jim Crow.
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Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Apartheid
Kids learn about the history of apartheid in South Africa including the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, the Soweto Uprising, and bringing apartheid law to an end on this site.
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Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Ida B. Wells
Study the biography of Ida B. Wells a former slave who became a journalist wrote about racial discrimination in the South on this site. Learn how she ran a major campaign against lynching.
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Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Explore the biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton a leader of the women's suffrage movement she wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and fought for women's rights on this site.
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Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: African American Civil Rights Movement
Kids learn about the history of the African-American Civil Rights Movement including segregation, Jim Crow laws, protests, Martin Luther King, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act on this site.