Martin Luther King Jr. - A True Historical Examination
Site claims to offer information on Martin Luther King though is owned by Stormfront a white supremacist organization. All of the information offered on this site is suspect.
Report of Military Support of Law Enforcement - Los Angeles August 1965
Report of the California National Guard of their activities in suppressing the Watts Riots of 1968. Combing through this students can find statistics, and a timeline of events. This can be used in combination with other documents to determine accuracy - did the National Guard report this differently than the news media and civil rights organizations? What implications does this have on the use of martial law in America?
July 2, 1964: Remarks upon Signing the Civil Rights Bill | Lyndon Johnson
Lessons showing the link between the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement can be enhanced with these words of Lyndon Johnson when he signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
Today in far corners of distant continents, the ideals of those American patriots still shape the struggles of men who hunger for freedom.
We believe that all men are entitled to the blessings of liberty. Yet millions are being deprived of those blessings—not because of their own failures, but because of the color of their skin.<br>
The reasons are deeply imbedded in history and tradition and the nature of man. We can understand—without rancor or hatred—how this all happened.<br>
But it cannot continue. Our Constitution, the foundation of our Republic, forbids it. The principles of our freedom forbid it. Morality forbids it. And the law I will sign tonight forbids it.
My fellow citizens, we have come now to a time of testing. We must not fail.<br>
Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our Nation whole. Let us hasten that day when our unmeasured strength and our unbounded spirit will be free to do the great works ordained for this Nation by the just and wise God who is the Father of us all.<br>
Thank you and good night.
Newark---1967
This site also provides background and story of the Newark Riots of 1967. This is a site that can be used in comparison with another to see the manner in which the author's shape the reader's opinions
The Trials of The Scottsboro Boys
Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
Truman Library: Desegregation of the Armed Forces Online Research File
This collection focuses on President Truman's decision to desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces. It includes 247 documents totaling 1,187 pages, covering the years 1938-1953. Supporting material includes an Archival Materials Guide and finding aid, Records of the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services (Record Group 220).
'This Is How We Lost to the White Man' The audacity of Bill Cosby's black conservatism
This article could be used with a lesson that explores the modern version of the WEB du Bois and Booker T Washington debate
The Newark Riots Part1- One version of the Story - AR15.Com Archive
Please note the hosting site when looking at this report on the Newark Riots of 1967. This site is chose specifically because of the nature of its perspective's influence on its depiction of the story fo the riots. Students can compare this version of the story with another to find words that shape the readers understanding of the riots. How are the authors of this site shaping readers' opinions
The Making of African American Identity: 1917-1968, National Humanities Center
A collection of primary resources-historical documents, literary texts,and works of art-thematically organized with notes and discussion questions from National Humanities Center from National Humanities Center
Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan: The two girls in the Little Rock Picture
This article traces the lives of two girls caught in history and preserved through one of the most iconic images of the Civil Right Movement. You'll recognize Hazel Bryan's face the second you see it, and you'll remember Elizabeth Blackwell as well - this excerpt from a book chronicling their lives shows what happened to them afterwards.
New Jersey's Apartheid and Intensely Segregated Urban Schools
How many New Jersey teachers realize that one out of 4 black students in New Jersey attend schools with a population that is less than 1% white? This Rutgers University report shows how New Jersey has the third highest fraction of its black students in apartheid schools, following only Illinois and Michigan. Prepared by UCLA's Civil Rights Project and the Rutgers University's Institute on Educational Law and Policy, this report concludes that although New Jersey is a rich, largely suburban state with an educated population, with growing diversity, and a tradition of strong public schools, its black students face far more extreme school segregation than black students in the South
Alex Haley interviews Malcolm X
There's a lot of good material here, certainly come of it can be mined for a good civil rights lesson. This is an interview with Playboy Magazine
The Black Freedom Movement
The common approach to teaching the Civil Rights Movement glosses over competing views among activists, writing out of the history those who advocated self-defense and those who pushed for economic change. And it downplays the role of women in the struggle for social change. Examining the following primary sources documents will help you shed light on new interpretations of the black freedom movement.
Civil Rights | Classroom Resources | PBS Learning Media
Features an impressive array of audio, video, and text sources from Frontline and American Experience shows, Eyes on the Prize, and other sources. Also offers an interactive Civil Rights movement timeline and four lesson plans: Campaigns for Economic Freedom/Re-Examining Brown/Taking a Stand/Understanding White Supremacy. REquires registration but free
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
2015 Report from the Equal Justice Initiative that documents racial terror in the United States - the title itself should provoke student interest as well as teacher responsibility. Civil Rights lessons should go beyond Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Wrote 'I Have A Dream' - Nerdwriter1 - YouTube
Teachers and students shouldn't be discouraged by the name of the site - this is an insightful, academically powerful look into the rhetoric of King's iconic speech. Although students recognize the name of this speech more than any other in American history, they probably haven't dug into it on a phrase by phrase basis to see how it works. Learning more about how speeches are written shows students the power of language.
Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State University
21st students may not appreciate the degree to which racist language and imagery covered the landscape of 19th and 20th century America. Exhibits at this museum are just the tip of the iceberg
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement | Facing History and Ourselves
One of the best instructional documentaries ever made. 21st century students have no sense of the immediacy of the Civil Rights movement, Facing History presents streaming versions of segments of the documentary for classroom use.
Dr. Karen L. Cox ✍
Students should know that Emmitt Till's summer vacation to Mississippi is still a focus of racism years later
Tuskegee Study - Timeline - CDC - NCHHSTP
Although the Tuskegee Airmen receive a lot of attention in the taught narrative canon (as well they should), the Tuskegee Study which tested syphilis on African American men without telling them, and not giving them treatment after it was available, may tell students more about Civil Rights in the United States and the African American experience
Ross-Barnett-and-Racism Lesson Plan
Teachers may recognize the names of the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi, though they may not know the name of the Governor of the state at the time Ross Burnett. This lesson plan includes links to videos of his speeches and a clip from the University of Mississippi and University of Kentucky football that both feature the Confederate flag prominently. This lesson also includes campaign literature of Barnett demonstrating his ardent, racist support for segregation
University of Mississippi vs. University of Kentucky Football Game - 1963 video
Two things should stand out to the modern viewer, first the prominence of the confederate flag, secondly, the empty stands at a college football game in the southeast. Both the flag and the stands can be traced to just one student at "ol Miss - James Meredith
Teaching in an Uprising: Readings on Race and Democracy – AAIHS
From Slavery to Mass Incarceration | Ben & Jerry’s
How come is everything white? Muhammad Ali - YouTube
Need a clean version of this - but students in largely white suburban schools should see this
Diversity and Segregation in New Jersey School Districts 2016-17 | NJ Spotlight
Chart showing statistics on the county and district level. Is this level of segregation more or less than the south during the 1950s?
New Jersey’s Segregated Schools Trends and Paths Forward
UCLA Civil Rights Project Report
The Hate That Hate Produced - PART 1 - YouTube
Mike Wallace and CBS News introduced the Nation of Islam to the American public in 1959, this is a segment of that broadcast.
"New Kids in the Neighborhood (Negro in the Suburb)" - Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) — Google Arts & Culture
For use as a discussion or writing prompt or in connection with a test question
Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 – The Public Domain Review
Primary source images of the Tulsa Massacre of 1921