Civil Rights Teaching
Stonewall 25 / Stonewall and Beyond -- Lesbian and Gay Culture (1994) -- Exhibition Index
The online edition of a Columbia University Libraries exhibition held from May 25 to September 17, 1994 in conjunction with the international celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
The collection includes more than 94 document projects or archives and 3,750 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text sources, written by almost 2,100 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. It continues to grow with two new issues/releases annually.
Hispanic Americans - Themed Resources
Explore the culture, contributions and interactions of Hispanic peoples in North America through rare maps, historical documents from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, local histories, recorded songs, interactive games, and detailed online bibliographies. From the Library of Congress
Women's History - Themed Resources
Examine print materials, photographs, and webcasts presenting women’s sometimes-overlooked contributions to history; learn about women as diverse as Jane Addams, Dorothea Lange, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and Zora Neale Hurston. from Library of Congress
Martin Luther King - Nobel Lecture
Although the "I have a Dream" speech sucks all of the academic air out of the room, the Nobel speech offers a deeper reflection of Martin Luther King
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).
Brown v. Board of Education (I),1954
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. Exhibit from OurDocuments
American Experience . Roads to Memphis | PBS
The international man hunt to capture the killed of Martin Luther King. Companion site for American Experience documentary with articles, timeline and links to resources
'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
American Rhetoric: Malcolm X - The Ballot or the Bullet (3 April 1964)
Loving v. Virginia
Students may not believe that a man and wife went to jail for getting married in Virginia in 1958. This ordinarily would not be a crime, but Mildred was African-American and RIchard was not. This Supreme Court decision is used as the basis for attacks against laws forbidding same-sex marriages. Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City