Civil Rights Movement (SS8H11)

SS8H11 Evaluate the role of Georgia in the modern civil rights movement.

1. Explain Georgia’s response to Brown v. Board of Education including the 1956 flag and the Sibley Commission.

2. Describe the role of individuals (Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis), groups (SNCC and SCLC) and events (Albany Movement and March on Washington) in the Civil Rights Movement.

3. Explain the resistance to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, emphasizing the role of Lester Maddox.

Suggested Collections 

Civil Rights Digital Library 

Athens-Clarke County Library

• • Athens Regional Library System History Collection

Atlanta History Center

• • Atlanta History Photograph Collection

  • Atlanta's Unspoken Past Oral History Project

  • Bill Wilson Photographs, 1938-1979, undated

  • Boyd Lewis Photographs

  • Charles E. Troutt Photographs

  • Charles Longstreet Weltner films, approximately 1958-1970

  • Cotten Alston Photographs, 1972-1998, undated

  • Floyd Jillson Photograph Collection, 1957-1992 and n.d., (bulk 1965-1975)

  • Frances Outlar Photograph Collection, circa 1950, 1952-1953

  • Joe McTyre Photograph Collection, 1889-1985, undated

  • Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection

  • Lester Maddox Papers

  • Lester Maddox Photographs, 1934-2000, undated

  • Living Atlanta oral history collection

  • Maynard documentary interviews, 2017

  • Oral History Collections on the Construction of the Georgia Dome in Vine City Papers

  • Parker Lowell Photograph Collection, 1949

  • Sam Massell Papers

  • Southline Press, Inc. Photographs

  • Southwind recordings

  • Veterans History Project: Oral History Interviews

  • Voices Across The Color Line Oral History Collection, 2005-2006

  • William Fulmer Hull Photographs

  • William Stanford, Sr. Photographs, 1960

Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

• • Asa G. Hilliard, III Papers, Audio-Visual Materials Series

  • Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations

  • Atlanta Urban League Papers

  • AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library Lectures

  • C. Eric Lincoln Collection

  • Clark College Photographs

  • David Roberts Oral History Collection

  • Digital Collection of Robert W. Woodruff Library (AUC)

  • Edward A. Jones Photograph Collection

  • General Photographs Collection

  • Grace Towns Hamilton Papers

  • John H. Wheeler Collection

  • Johnson Publishing Company Clipping Files Collection

  • Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records

  • National Council of Negro Women: Subject Vertical Files

  • Oral History Interviews

  • Southern Regional Council Papers (Finding Aid)

  • Vivian Henderson Papers

  • Voter Education Project Organizational Records

Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History

• • Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection

  • Auburn Avenue Research Library Historic African American Education Collections

Augusta-Richmond County Public Library

• • Oral memoirs of Augusta's citizens : Augusta Richmond County Public Library

City of Savannah Municipal Archives

• • Civic Magazine

  • Eastside Documentation Project

  • Ellis Square Oral History Project

  • W. W. Law Moving Image and Sound Collection

  • W.W. Law Photograph Collection

  • Westside Documentation Project

Coffee County Memory Project and Coffee County Historical Society

• emergingVOICES of Coffee County 

• Overcoming Segregation

Columbus State University. Archives

• • General Oral History Collection

Fulton County Schools Archive

• • Superintendents

Georgia State University. Libraries

• • Broadcasting Collections

  • Georgia Government Documentation Project

Georgia State University. Special Collections

• • AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records

  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs

  • Great Speckled Bird

  • Harvey Newman Papers

  • Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976

  • M. H. Ross Papers

  • Planning Atlanta - A New City in the Making, 1930s-1990s Photographs

  • Social Change Collection

  • Southern Labor Archives

  • Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection, 1923-1975

  • Voices of Labor Oral History Project

  • Tom Coffin Photographs

Hargrett Library

• • Pandora: Yearbook of the University of Georgia from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

• • Civil Rights and the Pulitzer Prize in Georgia

Houston County Public Library System

• • Warner Robins Heritage Society Oral History Project

Interdenominational Theological Center

• • Interdenominational Theological Center Theses & Dissertations Collection

James Pendergast Memorial Library

• • Inside ASU

  • Aspire

  • Short Takes

Jimmy Carter Library

• • Notable Events and Accomplishments of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Administration, 1977-1981

Kennesaw State University Archives

• • Anthony Coleman Collection

  • Atlanta Student Movement Project

  • Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights Series

  • Gregson and Ellis Architectural Drawings

  • NAACP Cobb County Branch Records, 1947 - 2017

  • Southern Voice newspaper collection, 1988-1995

Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

• • "Integrated in All Respects": Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School Films and the Politics of Segregation

  • Athens Oral History Project, 2014-2016

  • Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library

  • Dean Rusk oral history collection, 1984-1989

  • Integrated in All Respects: Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School Films and the Politics of Segregation

  • Reflections on Georgia Politics oral history collection, 2006-2010

  • Richard B. Russell Library Oral History Documentary collection, 1986-2006

Roddenbery Memorial Library

• • They Endure: A Chronicle of Courage Oral History Project

Russell Library. Special Collections

• • Community Harvest Days Collection

Spelman College

• • Spelman College Yearbooks

  • The Spelman Independent Scholars Oral History Project

Thomas County Public Library System

• • Funeral Programs from the Thomas County Public Library System

Tubman African-American Museum

• • Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012

University of Georgia. Libraries

• • Southern school news

University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library

• • Georgia Government Publications

University of West Georgia. Special Collections

• • Georgia Political Papers and Oral History Program

Valdosta State University. Odum Library. Archives and Special Collections

• • Civil Rights Papers

  • South Georgia Folklife Project Photograph Collection

  • Valdosta State College Integration

Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

• • Parade of Quartets Collection

  • WALB Newsfilm

  • WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection

Suggested Searches

• 1956 State Flag

• 1964 Civil Rights Act 

• Albany Movement 

• Martin Luther King, Jr. 

• Coretta Scott King

• John Lewis 

• Julian Bond

• Hosea Williams

• W. W. Law

• Lester Maddox and Heart of Atlanta/Pickrick trial 

• March on Washington 

• Sibley Commission 

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) 

Historic Newspapers

• Southern School News 

• The Wolverine Observer

• The Spelman Spotlight

• Spelman Reflections

• The Maroon Tiger

• The Panther

• Savannah Tribune

• Augusta News-Review

• The Crusader

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• Activism in the U.S. 

• The Black Power Movement 

• Feeding the Hungry with Food Stamp Programs 

• Lyndon Johnson's Great Society 

• Voting Rights Act of 1965 

NGE Articles

• Gray v. Sanders (1963)

• Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)

• Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)

• A. T. Walden (1885-1965)

• Albany Civil Rights Institute

• Albany Movement

• Americus Movement

• Annie L. McPheeters (1908-1994)

• Atlanta Negro Voters League (ANVL)

• Atlanta Sit-ins

• Benjamin Mays (ca. 1894-1984)

• Bernice Johnson Reagon (b. 1942)

• Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

• C. B. King (1923-1988)

• Charlayne Hunter-Gault (b. 1942)

• Civil Rights Movement

• Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)

• County Unit System

• Cultural Landscape of Georgia: Overview

• Desegregation of Higher Education

• Disability Rights Movement

• Dixiecrats

• Donald Hollowell (1917-2004)

• Earl T. Shinhoster (1950-2000)

• Ebenezer Baptist Church

• Freedom Rides

• Freedom Singers

• Georgia History: Overview

• Gubernatorial Election of 1966

• Hamilton Holmes (1941-1995)

• Herman Talmadge (1913-2002)

• Horace T. Ward (1927-2016)

• Hosea Williams (1926-2000)

• Howard Moore Jr. (b. 1932)

• Jacob Rothschild (1911-1973)

• John Lewis (1940-2020)

• John Wesley Dobbs (1882-1961)

• Joseph Lowery (1921-2020)

• Julian Bond (1940-2015)

• Lester Maddox (1915-2003)

• Lynching

• Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

• Mary Frances Early (b. 1936)

• Mattiwilda Dobbs (1925-2015)

• Midtown Atlanta

• Ministers' Manifesto

• National Center for Civil and Human Rights

• Paschal's Restaurant

• Primus E. King (1900-1986)

• Ralph David Abernathy (1926-1990)

• Rosa Lee Ingram Case

• Segregation

• Sibley Commission

• Slater King (1927-1969)

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• State Flags of Georgia

• Student Movements of the 1960s

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Temple Bombing

• The Mallard Murder Case

• Thomas Brewer (1894-1956)

• Vernon Jordan (1935-2021)

• Walter White (1893-1955)

• WERD

• William G. Anderson (b. 1927) 

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources

• Virtual Learning Journey: Civil Rights Movement

Posters and Postcards

• SS8H11 poster

• SS8H11 postcard

• SS8H11b poster