A Raisin in the Sun/ To Kill a Mockingbird Research Paper

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General Civil Rights Movement Web Links

African American History

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/contents.html

Martin Luther King Institute Encyclopedia

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia_contents?category=all

The Road to Civil Rights
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/road/s00.cfm

Amistad Digital Resource

http://www.amistadresource.org

Black History in America

http://www.myblackhistory.net

We Shall Overcome; Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement National Register

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

The Civil Rights Movement
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-civil-rights.html

Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action: Background

http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/affirmaction.html

Affirmative Action for African, Hispanic, Asian Americans

http://www.ethnicmajority.com/affirmative_action.htm

The Origins of Affirmative Action

http://www.now.org/nnt/08-95/affirmhs.html

A Brief History of Affirmative Action

http://www.oeod.uci.edu/aa.html

Affirmative Action History: A History & Timeline of Affirmative Action

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/affirmative1.html

The Origins of Affirmative Action

http://theweek.com/article/index/245955/the-origins-of-affirmative-action

Affirmative Action: History and Rationale

http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/aa/aa02.html

African Americans during the Great Depression

The Great Depression

http://www.amistadresource.org/plantation_to_ghetto/the_great_depression.htm

The 1930s: The Great Depression

http://slic.njstatelib.org/new_jersey_information/digital_collections/unit_11_the_1930s_the_great_depression

The Great Depression (1929-1939)

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

Blacks and the Great Depression

http://socialistworker.org/2012/06/28/blacks-and-the-great-depression

Issues of Race in the 1930s

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/newyorker/race.html

Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/brownvboard/brownhome.html

Brown v. Board of Education

http://www.civilrights.org/education/brown

Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education

http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/index.html

Brown v. Board of Education

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/brown

The Road to Civil Rights: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/road/s22.cfm

Video Web Sites

Brown v. Board of Education

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGHLdr-iak

Brown v. Board Education Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLDlqiKXquo

Brown v. Board of Education

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2XHob_nVbw

Civil Rights Act of 1964

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_civil_rights_act_of_1964/

Major Features of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_civilrights64text.htm

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/the-civil-rights-act-of-1964

The Avalon Project: Civil Rights Act; July 2, 1964

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/civil_rights_1964.asp

A Brief History of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~bloevy/CivilRightsActOf1964/

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/history/CivilRightsAct.cfm

Civil Rights Act of 1964
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/prize.htm


Video Web Sites

Civil Rights Act of 1964 
http://www.history.com/topics/voting-rights-act/videos#civil-rights-act-of-1964

President Lyndon B. Johnson Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87VEEi4Aa3g

Freedom Riders

Freedom Riders
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/rides

Freedom Rides
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_freedom_rides

The Road to Civil Rights: Freedom Riders
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/road/s26.cf

The Road to Civil Rights: Completing the Freedom Ride
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/road/s27.cfm

Get on the Bus: The Freedom Riders of 1961 
http://www.npr.org/2006/01/12/5149667/get-on-the-bus-the-freedom-riders-of-1961

The Freedom Riders: Then and Now 
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Freedom-Riders.html

A Tribute to Freedom Riders
http://www.oprah.com/packages/freedom-riders.html


Video Web Sites

The Freedom Riders History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zBY6gkpbTg

WGBH American Experience | Freedom Riders  
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/watch

Freedom Riders 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvsWXrS2PI

Harper Lee

Harper Lee
http://www.harperlee.com/bio.htm

Harper Lee: Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/harper-lee-9377021

Harper Lee 
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1126

To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial: Profiles in Courage 
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/kill-mockingbird-and-scottsboro-boys-trial-profiles-courage

Atticus Finch in Context 
http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1854&context=journal_articles

Jim Crow Laws

What Was Jim Crow?

http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow | PBS

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

Black History in America: Jim Crow Laws

http://www.myblackhistory.net/Jim_crow.htm

Jim Crow Laws

http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm

Video Web Sites

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mF718GsrOI

Jim Crow Museum

http://www.youtube.com/user/jimcrowmuseum

Little Rock Nine

Little Rock School Desegregation

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_little_rock_school_desegregation_1957

Little Rock Central High: History in Little Rock

http://littlerock.about.com/cs/centralhigh/a/Integration.htm

We Shall Overcome -- Little Rock Central High School

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ar1.htm

Little Rock, 1957: An Overview

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/littlerock/overview.html

The Little Rock Nine

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=723#

Little Rock

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3322

Video Web Sites

Little Rock Nine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oodolEmUg2g

The Little Rock Nine: Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XL2AxhcfMU

Terrence Roberts: Member of the Little Rock Nine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8nnNw34xDc

Malcolm X

Malcolm X (1925-1965)

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_malcolm_x_1925_1965

Malcolm X (1925-1965)

http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.pd.033

The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/detroitred.html

Malcolm X: Official Website

http://www.malcolmx.com/index.html

The Assassination of Malcolm X

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/assassins/malcolm_x/index.html

Malcolm X: Biography

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

Video Web Sites

Malcolm X: Mini Biography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a3hT8f6Kkk

Malcolm X: Make it Plain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zvGRmX2gcs

Malcolm X Speeches and Interviews 1960-1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4eLCJAME8Y

March on Washington (1963)

The March on Washington: “We Stood on a Height”

http://stlawu.edu/gallery/education/f/10tretick/kasher_text.pdf

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

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

The March on Washington | IIP Digital

http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2009/01/20090106125129jmnamdeirf0.6591913.html#axzz1u0HYHQgC

Behind the March on Washington

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/march40th/part1.html#resources

The 1963 March on Washington

http://www.lasentinel.net/The-1963-March-on-Washington.html

March on Washington, D.C.

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

Video Web Sites

The March on Washington

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh6wPrLzvqA

Remembering the March on Washington

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video/Remembering-the-March-on-Washington.html

March on Washington

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA9TJCV-tks

The March on Washington

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c2lLYuYU1I

Medgar Evers

Medgar Evers and the Origin of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/53/medgar-evers-and-the-origin-of-the-civil-rights-movement-in-mississippi

Medgar Evers: Biography

http://www.biography.com/people/medgar-evers-9542324

NAACP History: Medgar Evers

http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-medgar-evers

Medgar Evers: July 2, 1925-June 12, 1963

http://www.wesleyan.edu/mlk/posters/pdfs/evers.pdf

Exposing the Secrets of Mississippi Racism

http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1311

Video Web Sites

Medgar Evers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDF63Bh5OgM

Medgar Evers - Part 1: Civil Rights Heroes, Martin Kent Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_HBdrJkmDE

Medgar Evers - Part 2: Civil Rights Heroes, Martin Kent Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZhFKV4Q40U

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom | Exhibitions - Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/naacp/

NAACP: 100 Years of History

http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history

NAACP

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1595.html

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_national_association_for_the_advancement_of_colored_people_naacp1/

Video Web Sites

History of the NAACP and Civil Rights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYQswadO_3U

History of the NAACP – Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM8tHwfZiiI

History of the NAACP – Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL_bFAESEuE

NAACP

http://www.naacphistory.org/#/home

Plessy v. Ferguson

The Supreme Court | Landmark Cases | Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/landmark_plessy.html

The Supreme Court Landmark Cases | Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | Famous Dissents

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/personality/landmark_plessy.html

Plessy .v Ferguson (1896)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=52

The Road to Civil Rights: Plessy v. Ferguson

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/road/s07.cfm

Digital History: Plessy v. Ferguson

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3181

Homer Plessy: Biography

http://www.biography.com/people/homer-plessy-21105789

Plessy .v Ferguson (1896)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=52

Video Web Sites

Plessy v. Ferguson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaSOHKBtuaU

Historical Cases: Plessy v. Feguson

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xealnr_historical-cases-plessy-v-ferguson_tech

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956)

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_montgomery_bus_boycott_1955_1956

Rosa Parks and The Montgomery Bus Boycott

http://www.wesleyan.edu/mlk/posters/rosaparks.html

The Story of Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott Revisited

http://www.personal.psu.edu/scs22/blogs/ssed_430w_instructors/Kohl%20article%20Rosa%20Parks.pdf

Montgomery Bus Boycott

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1567

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

http://www.ahsd.org/social_studies/williamsm/Rosa%20Parks.pdf

ADAH: Alabama Moments - Montgomery Bus Boycott

http://www.alabamamoments.alabama.gov/sec55det.html

How Women Led and Won the Montgomery Bus Boycott

http://www.workers.org/2005/us/boycott_0217

Video Web Sites

Rosa Parks: Mini Biography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8A9gvb5Fh0

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_gNgQsXzQ

Montgomery Bus Boycott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFXQOBsOmRw&list=TL6Y-z6rG5_pnqqRMpiamzBUVo0mSMPkRf

Scottsboro Boys Trials

The Trials of The Scottsboro Boys

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

The Trial of the Scottsboro Boys

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials4.htm

Anthology of Thirties Prose: The Scottsboro Freight Car Case

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/white/anthology/scottsboro.html

Scottsboro Trials

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1456

Scottsboro Boys Museum & Cultural Center

http://bama.ua.edu/~jaray4/history.html#civil

Video Web Sites

The Trials of the Scottsboro Trials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Bj9LddD6s

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBV-GhyINY

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

About the 1963 Birmingham Bombing

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htm

16th Street Baptist Church 1963 Bombing Summary

http://www.useekufind.com/peace/summary.htm

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1431932

Online NewsHour: Pursuing the Past -- The Birmingham Church Bombing

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/clarion/kc_birmingham.html

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1744

Video Resources

Klan Bombing of Birmingham Church 1963

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-MuWDsv5pg

Southern Race Relations in the 1930s

Race Relations in the 1930s and 1940s

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/depwwii/race/

Issues of Race in the 1930s

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/newyorker/race.html

Trials in the South during the 1930s

All-White Jury

https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/blog/index.php/tag/all-white-jury

White Juror Bias: An Investigation of Prejudice against Black Defendants in the American Courtroom

http://www.ase.tufts.edu/psychology/sommerslab/documents/raceRealSommersEllsworth2001.pdf

The Changing Composition of the American Jury

http://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=docs_125

Discriminatory Acquittal

http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=wmborj

Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy

http://www.eji.org/files/EJI%20Race%20and%20Jury%20Report.pdf

The Scottsboro Boys Trials: Black Men as Racial Scapegoats

http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=C8336&chapterID=C8336-823&path=books/greenwood

The Scottsboro Boys and Fundamental Rights

http://usinfo.org/enus/government/branches/pitts3.html

‘Scottsboro Boys’: A 1931 Case of Legal Lynching Revisited

http://www.workers.org/articles/2012/12/14/scottsboro-boys-a-1931-case-of-legal-lynching-revisited

The Story of the Scottsboro Boys

http://sixthamendment.org/the-story-of-the-scottsboro-boys

TV and the Civil Rights Movement

Blacks in TV in the Age of the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1970

http://jfredmacdonald.com/bawtv/bawtvp2.htm

Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi

http://southernspaces.org/2004/television-news-and-civil-rights-struggle-views-virginia-and-Mississippi

Television and the Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with Aniko Bodroghkozy (Part One)

http://henryjenkins.org/2012/09/television-and-the-civil-rights-movement-an-interview-with-aniko-bodgroghkozy-part-one.html

Television and the Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with Aniko Bodroghkozy (Part Two)

http://henryjenkins.org/2012/09/television-and-the-civil-rights-movement-an-interview-with-aniko-bodroghkozy-part-two.html

Television and the Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with Aniko Bodroghkozy (Part Three)

http://henryjenkins.org/2012/09/television-and-the-civil-rights-movement-an-interview-with-aniko-bodroghkozy-part-three.html

Reporting on the Civil Rights Movement

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/100991/Reporting-on-the-Civil-Rights-Movement.aspx

Voting Rights Act of 1965

The Road to Civil Rights: The Civil Rights Act of 1964

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/road/s34.cfm

Federal Voting Rights Laws

http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/intro/intro.php

Voting Rights Act (1965)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100

Voting Rights for African Americans

http://www.myblackhistory.net/Voting.htm

The Road to Civil Rights: The Voting Rights Act of 1965

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/road/s38.cfm

Transcript of Voting Rights Act (1965)

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100&page=transcript

Reporting on the Civil Rights Movement

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/100991/Reporting-on-the-Civil-Rights-Movement.aspx

Video Resources

President Johnson and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AN4NZSROvs

President Lyndon Johnson: Speech on Voting Rights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxEauRq1WxQ

Why Did There Need to Be a Voting Rights Act of 1965?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4EX-vk5swQ

Woolworth Sit-ins

I Raised My Hand to Volunteer: Students Protest in 1960s Chapel Hill

http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/exhibits/protests/sitins.html

1960: Sitting Down to Take a Stand

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f011810_greensboro

The Woolworth Sit-In That Launched a Movement

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18615556

North Carolina History Project : Greensboro Sit-In

http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/299/entry

The Sit-ins - October 1960 - Civil Rights - A Jackson Sun Special Report

http://orig.jacksonsun.com/civilrights/sec3_sitins.shtml

Civil Rights Greensboro

http://library.uncg.edu/dp/crg/topicalessays/busdesegsitins.aspx

Video Resources

Woolworth Lunch Counter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbbcjn4d1cE

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