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Black Past

Black Past: Wiley, George Alvin

For Students 9th - 10th
This concise encyclopedia entry recounts the life of George Alvin Wiley, founder of the civil rights organization, CORE.
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Website
Curated OER

National Park Service: Travel Places of the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a list of historic places of the Civil Rights Movement, complete with an itinerary and a map. Clicking on a place on the map will give information about that place.
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Primary
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An essay that speaks of the major events and legacies of the Civil Rights Movement.
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History Link

Bertha Pitts Campbell: An Oral History

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Washington State Oral History Project comes this captivating interview with Bertha Pitts Campbell, an African American woman and early Seattle civil rights worker. Campbell talks about the discrimination and segregation she...
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Digital History

Digital History: The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
On December 1, 1955, the late Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat and made civil rights history.
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Article
The Henry Ford

Rosa Parks Bus at Henry Ford Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
This site tells the story of Rosa Parks but also the story of the bus and what happened to it and with it through the years.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Civil Rights Jim Crow in America

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source materials that reflect the Jim Crow laws in the United States. Includes analysis tools and teacher guides.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick comprehension check over the early steps in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Rosa Parks's courageous decision to fight discrimination and the boycott that ended segregation on public buses.
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Digital History

Digital History: Viva La Raza!

For Students 9th - 10th
This Digital History site provides an informative overview of the Mexican American civil rights movement in America.
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Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Walter White

For Students 9th - 10th
An encyclopedia article about Walter White,a man influential in the quest for civil rights in the 20th century.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Affirmative Action and the Usa

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Wide Angle, two American NAACP lawyers arrive to advise Brazilian civil rights organizations, leading to a discussion of differences between race relations in the U.S. and Brazil.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Sit in Movement

For Students 4th - 8th
Just like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the first sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter was the beginning of a nonviolent movement to challenge "white only" laws. Read about how the sit-in movement spread across the South. See how...
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Black Past

Black Past: Fisk Jubilee Singers

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interesting encyclopedia article, you can read about the beginning of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a gospel group which performed spirituals all over the country and the world.
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Black Past

Black Past: White, Walter

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief encyclopedia entry about the influential civil rights leader, Walter White.
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Black Past

Black Past: Wilkins, Roy

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia entry recounts briefly the life of Roy Wilkins, a very influential civil rights leader.
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Black Past

Black Past: Wright, Jonathan

For Students 9th - 10th
The importance of Jonathan Wright's legal career is explained in this encyclopedia article.
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Other

Greensboro Sit Ins: James Farmer

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a brief description of Farmer's role in support of the Greensboro sit-ins. An audio clip is included.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Desegregation Integration, Making of African American Identity: V.3

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents James Farmer (1920-1999), a major figure in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, and the distinction he draws between integration and desegregation, two terms often used interchangeably and often confused.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Sncc and Core

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the two civil rights groups that organized nonviolent protests during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Massive Resistance and the Little Rock Nine

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about resistance to desegregation and the nine African American students who dared to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the origins, strategies, and unfinished business of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Civil Rights Movement: Women's Leadership

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about women's leadership in the Civil Rights Movement. Meet the women who led the civil rights movement as organizers, political strategists, marchers,...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: James Farmer

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features James Farmer, an American civil rights activist who, as a leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), helped shape the civil rights movement through his nonviolent activism and...

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