The Civil Rights Movement

How can groups of people get their voices heard when government isn’t honoring their rights?

Marches

•  General information about the March on Washington can be found here , here and  here
• Here are interviews with activists who attended the March on Washington.
• Information about the Selma to Montgomery March can be found here.
• NBC News published this article of lesser-known facts about the Selma to Montgomery March on the 50th anniversary of the march.
• In this interview John Lewis remembers the attacks on Bloody Sunday (part of the Selma ot Montgomery March).
• Photos of the United Farmworkers' march from Delano to Sacramento are here.

Sit-ins

• Information about sit-ins as a peaceful protest strategy is ​here.
• Information about the sit-in movement of the early 1960s can be found here, here, 
• A timeline of photographs from the sit-in movement in the early 1960s is here.
• An article about a major sit-in of the disability rights movement is here.
• This website has text and videos about the disability rights movement, including how sit-ins were used.

Freedom Rides

• Information about Freedom Rides can be found here, here, here and here.
• PBS wrote introductions to the individual people who participated in Freedom Rides here.
• PBS created a documentary about Freedom Riders here.
• NBC created short documentary clips about Freedom Riders ​here and here

Boycotts

• Information about the first bus boycott of the Civil Rights Movement (before the one led by MLK, Jr. and Rosa Parks!) is here and here.
• Information about the Montgomery Bus Boycott can be found here,
• Information about the Chicago Public Schools Boycott in 1963 is here.
• Information about the Seattle Public Schools Boycott in 1966 is here.
• Information about a New Orleans boycott of stores on Dryades Street in 1960-61 is ​here.
• Information about the 1965 Grape Boycott is here.
  • Here is a news article from the early 1970s (*primary source*) about the Farmworkers' strike and grape/lettuce boycott.
  • Here is a poster from 1975 (*primary source*) calling for people to boycott grapes and lettuce.

Court Cases

• A website with a variety of resources about the Mendez v. Westminster case is here.
• Information about Browder v. Gayle, the court case that ended bus segregation, is here and here.
• Information about the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas can be found here, ​here and here.
• Here is a short informational video that gives an overview of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
• Here is a summary of major court cases that led up to the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Voter Registration

• This website offers information and primary sources about the ways different Southern States made it hard to vote before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 
• This short video gives an overview of ways voting rights have been denied to African Americans throughout history.
• Information about Freedom Summer, a voter registration effort in 1964, can be found here and here.
• Information about Freedom Summer and the Bloody Sunday march for voting rights is here.
• PBS created a documentary about Freedom Summer here.
• Information about citizenship schools, which prepared African Americans to pass literacy tests to vote, is here.
• A biography of Septima Clark, who founded citizenship schools, is here.

 

​General Information on the Civil Rights Movement:

• The Constitutional Rights Foundation gives an overview of many different protest strategies and events here.
• History.com offers many resources to honor "the triumphs and struggles of African-Americans throughout history" here.​
• PBS offers many resources about The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow laws here.
• Take a video tour of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute here.
• Lyrics to various songs of the Civil Rights Movement are here.

Chicano Rights Movement

• (See headings above for resources about the farmworkers' movement in California.)
• A website with a variety of resources about the Mendez v. Westminster case is here.
• A video about Ruben Salazar, a leader of the Chicano (Mexican-American) movement, is here.
• An informational video about the Chicano farmworkers movement is here.
• Present Day Connection:  Migrant Justice (Justicia Migrante) is leading a movement for farmworkers' rights on dairy farms in Vermont!

Disability Rights Movement

• A short documentary on the movement for rights for disabled people is here.
• An article about a major sit-in of the disability rights movement is here.
• This website has text and videos about the disability rights movement, including how sit-ins were used.

Native American Rights Movement

Women's Rights Movement