Green River LibGuides: African American History: Civil Rights Collections and Articles

The Civil Rights Movement

Collection and Articles

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Main Collection

Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement

Main Collection

Book cover for The Greatest and the Grandest Act

The Greatest and the Grandest Act : The Civil Rights Act of 1866 From Reconstruction to Today

I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement

Main Collection

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Main Collection

Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement

Main Collection

In Search of Power : African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974

Klansville, U.S.A. : The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan

Featured Resources

The Civil Rights Movement

Online Collections and Exhibits

Brown v. Board of Education - National Historic Site
Read articles about this case, the location, and the impact of this event in US history on the National Park Service website
Civil Rights Digital Library from the Digital Library of Georgia
"The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale."
Civil Rights Movement Resources
"This guide compiles links to civil-rights resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, it provides links to external Web sites focusing on civil rights and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers."
Civil Rights Oral History Collection (WSU)
In the Washington State University's digital collections, search through a collection of oral histories in this civil right's-focused collection
Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
An article and lesson plan with related content, from the EDSITEment website
Kids in Birmingham 1963
Search through a collection of first-hand accounts from those who lived through the tumultuous time of racial conflict in the 1960s

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"Kids in Birmingham 1963 was created during the 50th anniversary of the “Year of Birmingham,” a turning point in America’s struggle for civil rights. We offer a place for people to tell their personal stories of coming of age in that turbulent time, stories that may otherwise be left out of the history."
Library of Congress: Civil Rights Act of 1964
This online exhibit from the Library of Congress, contains primary source materials, a timeline, various multimedia, and more.
Library of Congress: Civil Rights History Project
Search through this collection of filmed first-hand accounts, images, videos, articles, and essays - all focused on different aspects of the Civil Rights Movement.
Library of Congress: Rosa Parks Papers
The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 items in the Manuscript Division, as well as 2,500 photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division, documents many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans.
Library of Congress: Voices of Civil Rights
The exhibition Voices of Civil Rights documents events during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This exhibition draws from the thousands of personal stories, oral histories, and photographs collected by the “Voices of Civil Rights” project, a collaborative effort of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress, and marks the arrival of these materials in the Library's collection.
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
"The NAACP's mission is to ensure the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate race prejudice."
For more articles and videos about the NAACP, see "The NAACP" tab on the Jim Crow Violence & Segregation page of this guide.
Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education
From the Smithsonian national museum of American history, this online exhibition was created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of education.
Unchaining Civil Rights
"You can call it what you want to, it's still Jim Crow" This online collection features some articles, with primary source materials embedded, on topics of employment, education, enfranchisement, and Equality

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The Civil Rights Movement

Collection and Articles

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement

The Greatest and the Grandest Act : The Civil Rights Act of 1866 From Reconstruction to Today

I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement

In Search of Power : African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974

Klansville, U.S.A. : The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan

Featured Resources

The Civil Rights Movement

Online Collections and Exhibits

The Civil Rights Movement

Featured Articles

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The Civil Rights Movement

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