1950-1975 (SS5H6)
Photograph of Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott, National Archives at College Park
SS5H6 Describe the importance of key people, events, and developments between 1950-1975.
Analyze the effects of Jim Crow laws and practices.
Explain the key events and people of the Civil Rights movement: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and civil rights activities of Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon B. Johnson, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Describe the impact on American society of the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Discuss the significance of the technologies of television and space exploration.
Suggested Collections
"Integrated in All Respects": Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School Films and the Politics of Segregation (Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies)
Auburn Avenue Research Library Historic African American Education Collections (Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History)
Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library (Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies)
Bill Wilson Photographs, 1938-1979, undated (Atlanta History Center)
Boyd Lewis Photographs (Atlanta History Center)
Civil Rights Papers (Valdosta State University. Odum Library. Archives and Special Collections)
Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights Oral History Series (Kennesaw State University Archives)
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Digital Collection (Georgia Institute of Technology. Library and Information Center. Archives and Records Management)
Georgia Government Publications (University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library)
Georgia's Political Heritage Program (University of West Georgia. Special Collections)
Manuscripts and Printed Material (Georgia State University. Special Collections)
Planning Atlanta: A New City in the Making, 1930s - 1990s: Publications (Georgia State University. Special Collections)
Superintendents (Fulton County Schools Archive)
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
Suggested Searches (DLG)
Suggested Searches (Civil Rights Digital Library)
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 --Trials, litigation, etc.Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination
Suggested Searches (DPLA)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination
Historic Georgia Newspapers
Chronicling America Newspapers
Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi
The Watsons Go To Birmingham -- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
NGE Articles
Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources
Alexander Clark and the First Successful Desegregation Case in the United States
Atlanta's Example in the Civil Rights Movement | Georgia Stories
The Economic Impact of Racial Discrimination | Georgia Stories