Web Directory

» A Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics
   A contemporary history of Blacks in Mathematics,featuring the first African Americans in the Mathematical Sciences and related events in the past 300 years. Links are presented in a timeline and include such information as first African American to obtain
   http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/madhist.html

» A Photographic History of The Civil Rights Movement
   Photos and text from The Civil Rights Movement.
   http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/

» A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
   Did you know...A. Philip Randolph first planned a March on Washington in 1941 to protest against governmental hiring practices that excluded African Americans from federal employment and federal contracts?
   http://aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/

» African American History: Welcome
   This project documents a selection of important events in African American history. Currently it begins with the 1857 Dred Scott case and continues through Plessy v. Ferguson, the civil rights movement from 1955-1965, and school integration. It may be exp
   http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/index.html

» American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
   A course by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute featuring six women in the Civil Rights Movement based on the literature of Eloise Greenfield.
   http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1997/3/97.03.10.x.html

» Civil Rights Author Discusses Birmingham, Alabama Revolution
   Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Carry Me Home, discusses the revoltion that led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in an interview with Jerry Jazz Musician.
   http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=mcwhorter.html

» Civil Rights Events, Strategies, and Forces
   Captures several milestones, personalities, and influences that helped civil rights in America.
   http://www.africanaonline.com/

» Civil Rights History Guide - The History Beat
   The Search Beat covers a variety of topics, including a Civil Rights History Guide with top Civil Rights history, timelines of the Civil Rights struggle, and resources. Well organized by time periods; includes civil rights photography.
   http://history.searchbeat.com/civilrights.htm

» Civil Rights Movement: March on Washington 1963
   A short history leading to and following the March 18, 1963 March on Washington D.C. for Jobs and Freedom.
   http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/washington.asp

» Facing History and Ourselves
   Educational organization. Video clips of individuals who involved the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 60s. Also describes educational and professional development programs and resources, lists regional offices, and provides news and event calen
   http://www.facinghistory.org/

» Freetown Village - A Living History Museum
   Freetown Village is a living history museum which depicts the lives and lifestyles of free African Americans in the year 1870. This symbolic community represents many of the predominantly African American settlements scattered throughout Indiana during th
   http://www.freetown.org/

» Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-Ins
   The Greensboro News and Record and Public Library chronicle the 1960 sit-in movement with a timeline, photos, and voices of the participants.
   http://www.sitins.com/

» Harry T. Moore Homesite - Mims, Florida
   Harry T. Moore Homesite site commemorates lives of two pioneering American Black civil rights workers, murdered in 1951. Organized first Brevard Co. Chapter NAACP in 1934, and led Florida fight for equality and justice. First killing of prominent civil ri
   http://www.nbbd.com/godo/moore/

» Historic Places in the Civil Rights Movements
   The National Parks Services' story of the Civil Rights Movement centered around places listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
   http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/

» Integrating Ole Miss
   The Kennedy Presidential Library's account of James Meredith, the African-American student whose attempt to register at the University of Mississippi in 1962 provoked violent confrontation. Time lines, biographical profiles, and primary sources.
   http://www.jfklibrary.org/meredith/

» Jim Crow Online
   The official home of the PBS documentary, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow.
   http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/

» Juneteenth Worldwide Celebration
   Website brings together the spirit of Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and
   http://www.juneteenth.com/

» Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary
   Background and history of events during the integration of Central High in 1957. Photos, articles, and news releases are published. Museum and visitor's center information is provided.
   http://www.centralhigh57.org/

» Milliken's Bend - Black Soldiers Defeat Confederates
   Black soldiers vindicated President Abraham Lincoln by defeating Confederate soldiers at Milliken's Bend, in the critical battle for Vicksburg in the Civil War. As a result, most barriers to the enlistment and effective deployment of Colored recruits were
   http://millikensbend.org/

» Mississippi Civil Rights Documentation Project
   Funded by the Mississippi state legislature, presentation includes oral history bibliography, oral history transcripts, and civil rights timeline.
   http://www.usm.edu/crdp/index.html

» National Center for Public Policy Research: Brown v. Board of Education
   An unofficial text of the Supreme Court's landmark civil rights case.
   http://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html

» Sojourn to the Past
   Offers students, educators and parents the chance to travel for ten days through the South visiting the most dramatic sites and hearing the speakers that first witnessed and created the civil rights movement
   http://www.sojournproject.org/

» The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing
   Information and history of the Birmingham Church bombing of 1963.
   http://4littlegirls.com/

» The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
   Review of 1955-1956 landmark events from the Montgomery Advertiser. Features newspaper front pages, article archives, biographies of key pioneers, timeline of events, video clips.
   http://www.montgomeryboycott.com

» Three Victims of the Freedom Summer 1964 Civil Rights Movement
   A sculptural portrayal of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, slain in the struggle for civil rights that they lived for, and that we all have.
   http://www.yoyita.com/civilrights.htm

» Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
   Personal testimony and contact information from veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement.
   http://www.crmvet.org/

» Viola Liuzzo - Civil Rights Activist (1925-1965)
   Viola Liuzzo, a white housewife who was killed while fighting for the rights of whites and nonwhites alike.
   http://gury.100webspace.net/viola1h3.htm

» Voices of Civil Rights
   The Voices of Civil Rights, a joint effort of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress collects and preserves untold accounts of the Civil Rights Movement.
   http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/

» W.E.B. Du Bois, The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
   Randy Sydnor's audio interview of Dr. Daniel Levering Lewis, Du Bois biographer, on the show, Oxford Review.
   http://www.panagram.com/ads/OXRShows.asp?Panagram=811275660