Links for research on specific topics

Books- online

GALE Ebooks - login using password:  ghsrpa

American Social Reform Movement Library

US History Encyclopedia

General Sites

Eyes on the Prize PBS.org- for profiles of the people and groups involved in the civil rights movement

History Channel Civil Rights Movement

Antidefamation League Civil Rights pages

Library Of Congress- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

New York Public Library - Africana American Odyssey Collection - Primary source photos!

Chicano and Red Power Movements

Red Power https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/rebuilding-indigenous-nations-native-american-activism-and-the-long-red-power-movement/

Red Power https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2338231095/UHIC?u=lsc&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=19c5f587 

AIM and the Alcatraz Occupation: https://digilab.libs.uga.edu/exhibits/exhibits/show/civil-rights-digital-history-p/american-indian-movement

American Indian Movement: https://digilab.libs.uga.edu/exhibits/exhibits/show/civil-rights-digital-history-p/american-indian-movement

Chicano Movement: https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2831200095/UHIC?u=lsc&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=109e9c69 

Cesar Chavez: https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2831200093/UHIC?u=lsc&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=48874585 

Coky Gonzales: https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3401804850/UHIC?u=lsc&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=dbda8319 

Freedom Riders

Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-freedom-riders-then-and-now-45351758/

National Endowment for the Humanities

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/mayjune/feature/freedom-riders

American Experience

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/

Little Rock Nine and Central High School

1957: The Integration of Central High https://upfront.scholastic.com/issues/2017-18/090417/the-little-rock-nine.html  (classroom code ghsdemons)

http://life.time.com/history/little-rock-nine-1957-photos/#1

http://time.com/4948704/little-rock-nine-anniversary/

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration                              

http://www.littlerock9.com/history.html

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/ak1.htm

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=89

Ku Kux Klan 

History of KKK

PBS.org- Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Anti Defamation League information on KKK

Birmingham Church bombings         

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues-july-dec13-birmingham_09-15/

http://www.4littlegirls.com/

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/prize.htm

Scottsboro Boys

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

Montgomery Bus Boycott/Freedom Rides                   

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1227852690/zz-blackstoriesblacktruths-women-montgomery-boycott

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/king/aa_king_bus_1.html

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott

http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/agentsheets/New-Vista/bus-boycott/

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/montbus.html

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/freeride.html

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/birming.html

Emmett Till

https://upfront.scholastic.com/issues/2016-17/040317/emmett-till-revisited.html#1280L (PW- ghsdemons)

http://upfront.scholastic.com/issues/04_04_16/young-sleuths-for-old-crimes/ (PW- ghsdemons)

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2017/02/19/more-than-60-years-later-the-emmett-till-case-still-resonates/98086244/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/till/

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/till/tillaccount.html

Linda Brown

http://www.biography.com/people/linda-brown-21134187

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/peopleevents/e_brown.html

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/brown-v-board-of-ed-is-decided

Sit-ins                                                                    

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/sit-ins.html

http://www.sitins.com/index.shtml

http://www.ushistory.org/us/54d.asp

http://crdl.usg.edu/events/sit_ins_nashville_tn/?Welcome

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in

Malcolm X

http://www.brothermalcolm.net/

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/malcolm-x

http://www.biography.com/people/malcolm-x-9396195

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/malcolmx/

Baseball                                                                                

https://upfront.scholastic.com/issues/2021-22/022122/courage-on-and-off-the-field.html#1200L (PW- ghsdemons)

http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/jackie-robinson?8qa

http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/jackie-robinson

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_jackie.html 

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/jackie-robinson

Selma- Montgomery March                                                             

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/peopleevents/pande08.html

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_selma_1.html

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_selma_to_montgomery_march/

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march

Washington March

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/100-amazing-facts/who-designed-the-march-on-washington/

http://www.socialwelfarehistory.com/eras/march-on-washington-august-28-1963/

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington

http://upfront.scholastic.com/issues/09_02_13/book#/16  (classroom password is ghsdemons)

Primary Source Docs:

General Primary Source Docs:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/sources/

Civil Rights/Jim Crow  http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/civil-rights/

NAACP http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/naacp/

Civil Rights African American Photos https://www.loc.gov/photos/?q=civil+rights+african+american