Civil Rights

African American Civil Rights Movement

Video:

Henry Louis Gates, And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK. Film series on PBS November 15 and 22, 2016.

• Home page: http://www.pbs.org/weta/black-america-since-mlk-and-still-i-rise/

• Clips from the film: http://www.pbs.org/show/black-america-mlk-and-still-i-rise/clips/

• http://www.pbs.org/weta/black-america-since-mlk-and-still-i-rise/watch-videos/

Eyes on the Prize series (first aired 1987)

• Wikipedia entry with detailed information on all 14 episodes

• YouTube search for viewable episodes

PBS' The American Experience films on civil rights topics

Primary Texts:

Civil Rights Movement Veterans -- Photos, documents, letters, and other primary sources collected and curated by veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement (Southern Civil Rights Movement)

Women's Rights

Lenora Lapidus, "Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Development of Gender Equality Jurisprudence under the Fourteenth Amendment." The Harbinger 43: 149-154. [online publication of The N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change.]

Alex Cohen and Wilfred U. Codringtion III, "The Equal Rights Amendment Explained." Brennan Center for Justice. Web. January 23, 2020.