Civil Rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Memorial has information and pictures that share the significance of civil rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/04/martin-luther-king-last-31-hours-the-story-of-his-prophetic-last-speech is an article where Joseph Rosenbloom analyzes this final speech that King delivered on April 3, 1968 at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee.
Nine from Little Rock, 1964 - Restored is a 18:30 minute video that won Best Short Documentary at the 1965 Academy Awards.
National Civil Rights Museum is a Wikipedia entry providing pictures and information about the significance of the Lorraine Motel.
The Origins of Jim Crow is a museum that explains the origins of these racist laws.
Oscar Watch: Common, John Legend On ‘Glory’ – “We Wanted To Reflect The Time We Live In’ 02/15/15 Pete Hammond explains background about this Oscar-nominated song that was the the 2015 Winner of Original Song for the film Selma.
The 87th Academy Awards | 2015 honored movies released in 2014 and took place on Sunday, February 22, 2015 at the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center. Glory was Winner of best Original Song for the movie Selma; Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn.
Glory (Common and John Legend) provides details about this Academy Award winning song.
Common, John Legend - Glory is the official music video from the motion picture "Selma" that earned the 2015 Academy Award for "Best Song."
Selma - John Legend ft. Common Music Video - "Glory" (2015) HD is a 4:44 minute video showing scenes from Selma and the African-American movement for suffrage.
Glory (From the Motion Picture Selma) Oscar Performance is a 5:20 minute video presenting the 2015 Academy Award winner for best Original Song.
Selma Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr. Movie HD is a 2:32 minute video showing the struggle of the African-Americans during their suffrage movement.
Illustration of bus where Rosa Parks sat, December 1, 1955 is a primary source from this historical event that took place during the Civil Rights Movement.
Fred Korematsu Institute has created and shared curriculum that attempts to advance racial equity and rights.
Voting Rights Act (1965) was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948) was signed by President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1948. It established the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services and committed the government to integrating the segregated military.
Curating & Preserving The Rosa Parks Bus explains how the bus on which Rosa Parks sat that day in 1955 was restored—going from a discarded relic in an Alabama field to one of the most popular artifacts in Henry Ford Museum.
Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was the first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991.
African American Voting Rights is a 11:24 minute Vimeo video produced by The Gilder Lehrman Institute.