Learn about the emergence of the American Indian Movement, the gay rights movement, and second-wave feminism.

The homepage of the National Women's History Project, this site includes links to suffrage history, timeline, a chat room, and student projects. Also information about the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention and national...

A collection of over one hundred archival video clips highlighting significant events in the history of the Civil Rights Movement since the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. There are ten collections covering...

Learn about the social conditions in the United States that led up to the Civil Rights Movement. Also, explore peaceful resistance and the immediate impact of the march.

An extensive archival collection of material that formed the core of Who Speaks for the Negro?, a book Robert Penn Warren published in 1965 of his interviews with prominent African American writers and activists whose ideas were critical...

Contains a copy of the original program for the March on Washington that featured Martin Luther King. Provides a summary of the civil rights movement at that time.

A comprehensive learning module on women's rights that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and primary source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include the women's suffrage...

This resource contains a summary of the role of the ACLU in gaining women's rights in a variety of areas. Informative timeline is available.

An overview of the state and progress of civil rights in the state of Texas since its emancipation from slavery in 1865.

This interactive United States Map allows students to see how slavery split the country into two sides, but the Civil War did not resolve their differences. Each state featured is assigned a short quote, story, or fact that illuminates...

Many other groups learned how to push for their civil rights from African Americans' civil rights movement. Read about the Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and gays as they worked to achieve equal treatment under the law.

Encyclopedia Britannica provides an overview of the women's movement, which sought equality for women and the changing of a male-dominated power structure.

A detailed look at the Civil Rights Act of 1964, paying particular attention to how Virginia Representative Howard W. Smith added an amendment intended to kill the act by making it cover gender discrimination as well as racial. Read...

Telling pictures of elementary schools for Blacks and Whites during the 50s and 60s. Discusses the situation in Prince Edward County that led to the Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County court case.

Series episode covers the civil rights movement and the struggle for equality in post-World War II America.

Comprehensive teaching unit on egalitarian America: Americans that demanded political, social, and economic equality in all walks of life. Learn how the civil rights movement and an expanding mass media helped to reshape a changing...

Overview of efforts to overthrow Plessy v Ferguson and desegregate public schools and other places during the Civil Rights Movement.

The Greensboro Sit-In was a critical turning point in Black history and American history, bringing the fight for civil rights to the national stage. Its use of nonviolence inspired the Freedom Riders and others to take up the cause of...

Encyclopedia entry explores the involvement of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in America's civil rights struggle throughout the late 1950s and into the mid-1960s.

Suffragists in Texas attempted to have their voice heard. However, the issue of race often tore these women apart, and ultimately ended the Texas Equal Rights Association in 1896. Explore the words and strategies of this period's...

In this lesson plan, students will consider "Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.

A detailed look at the life of Susan B. Anthony. Highlights her accomplishments as well as her involvement with the women's rights movement.

Journalist, activist, and co-founder of the National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan was one of the early leaders of the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 70s.

Read about the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), two groups that played pivotal roles in organizing nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.