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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.​
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