To Kill A Mockingbird Background Research ELD
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Good source on civil rights for many different groups. Created by a coalition of nonprofit civil rights groups & civil rights lobbying groups called LCCR (Leadership Conference on Civil Rights); and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.
Check out Civil Rights 101 in right sidebar.
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All Groups: civilrights.org, Civil Rights 101
A subsection of the preceding link.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was very difficult to pass because many people were against it. This page looks at some of the important people in politics who worked on getting this law passed.
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A government archives primary sources site--"Our Documents." Civil Rights Act of '64 section. Gives a nice, clear explanation of the Civil Rights Act and why it was important/its effects.
(National History Day, The National Archives and Records Administration, and USA Freedom Corps maintain this site).
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This page from the news network CNN explains some of the more surprising facts about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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CNN Civil Rights Movement Timeline
Not a lot of detail but a good timeline.
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Early history of the civil rights movement (History channel)
This History Channel page covers the early history of the civil rights movement up through the end of the 1960s.
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Harper Lee Encyclopedia of Alabama
A good place to start
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This periodical describes Harper Lee's personality and early life.
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This site from the National Park Service gives a bunch of examples of Jim Crow laws from various states.
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Jim Crow laws Smithsonian Museum
Click on each link on the left
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Library of Congress exhibit on African-American history
Lots of primary sources. Click on images to zoom.
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This periodical looks at what happened when the Little Rock Nine desegregated Central High School, but also the impact of that event on American history after that.
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Little Rock Nine TIME magazine
This interesting TIME article focuses on one of the students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, and lets her tell some of the story in her own words.
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The periodical The Seattle Times has created a page for Martin Luther King Jr. with biographical information as well as pictures and some of his writings and speeches
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From the Nobel Prize website
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An interesting site because it is organized geographically. You click on a place that was important in the civil rights movement and learn about it. May or may not work for your learning style! Do you know where stuff happened? :)
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
This online encyclopedia about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement is from Stanford University
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From a professor at UMKC law school
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Stanford University Martin Luther King Jr. Institute. King Online Encyclopedia
Arranged alphabetically (it is an encyclopedia!:) this is an awesome source on important people and events from the civil rights movement.
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This site from the Dept. of Justice is a little higher reading level, so don't use it if you don't understand what you're reading!
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 Findlaw
From a legal advice website
