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Civil Rights Resources

Civil Rights Movement: Mrs. Fatin’s 6th Grade Research project:
Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott - Story of Montgomery Bus Boycott

Montgomery Bus Boycott: The story of Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement

Montgomery Bus Boycott

American Experience | Eyes on the Prize | The Story of the Movement | PBS

Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Dies : NPR

Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary

Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary - The 1957-58 School Year | Video

The Little Rock Nine
Little Rock High School
The History of Jim Crow
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Jim Crow Stories | PBS
Jim Crow Laws What Was Jim Crow?
Remembering Jim Crow : Presented by American RadioWorks

Civil Rights: Brown v. Board of Education I (1954)

Early Civil Rights Struggles: Brown v. Board of Education

Brown vs. Board of Education - Background Summary

Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing : NPR

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing September 15, 1963

CNN Transcript - Early Edition: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing Witnesses: Forgiveness Still Most Important Part of Dealing with 36-Year-Old Crime - May 18, 2000

BPL Digital Collections -- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections : Item Viewer

washingtonpost.com: Church Burnings in the South

We Shall Overcome -- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

The Modern Ku Klux Klan

Birmingham Church Bombing — Infoplease.com

CNN.com - Appeal promised in church bombing conviction - May 2, 2001

A Huey P. Newton Story - Times - Watts Riots | PBS

144 Hours in August 1965
Picture History : Burning Stores During the Watts Riots 
Civil Rights Movement Timeline — Infoplease.com

US CODE: Title 42,2000a. Prohibition against discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodation

1955-1965: Sit-Ins

1965: Freedom Rides

African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era (Part 1)

American Experience . The Presidents . Lyndon B. Johnson | PBS

Congress and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Rosa Parks Biography from Who2.com

Rosa Parks Institute

Rosa Parks Portal

Rosa Parks Biography - Biography.com

Rosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights | Scholastic.com

Max, Adolf and the Brown Bomber - Times Online

ESPN.com: 'Brown Bomber' was a hero to all

http://www.pbs.org/forgoldandglory/history/date_otherspring1937.swf

American Experience | The Fight | People & Events | PBS

Joe Louis biography
Get On the Bus: The Freedom Riders of 1961 : NPR

African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era (Part 2)

Freedom Ride
We Shall Overcome -- The Strategy

We Shall Overcome -- The Players

We Shall Overcome -- The Need for Change

Freedom rider letter | Eyes on the Prize | Primary Sources | PBS
freedom riders - Ask Kids Image Search
Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement : Home

Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement : Article

Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement : Article

Greensboro 1960

Greensboro sitins| PBS

Timeline for Greensboro sitins
The King Center

http://www.mlkmemorial.org/site/c.hkIUL9MVJxE/b.4718119/k.70EC/Download_the_MLK_Toolbar.htm

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biographical Sketch

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the Net - Video and Text of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech

Citizen King / MLK| PBS

MLK Online - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speeches, pictures, quotes, biography, videos, information on MLK Day and more!

THE KKK IN BUFFALO, NY -Ku Klux Klan Membership List

Buffalo NY History 1970 to 2000

Buffalo NY history 1935-1970

Buffalo NY 1967 riots

The Buffalo Criterion newspaper

Black in Buffalo

Western New York Heritage Press

Buffalo NY 1962 photo

Buffalo NY ice fishing 1967

Recreation and Race in the Postwar City: Buffalo's 1956 Crystal Beach Riot. -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Dr King gives speech in Buffalo

1970 Campus Violence Flares 2nd Night on UB Perimeter

The Anti-War Movement in 1960's Buffalo -By Ed Powell
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