Resources for Civil Rights Research

Civil Rights Movement

Timelines, Events and Leaders

This timeline provides a brief description of each major event.

 

From PBS television, this timeline includes cultural and political events.  Click on an event and read more about it. 

 

The WorldBook (username: mvmlibrary, password: worldbook) provides articles about all major events, including pictures & videos.  Choose Student Edition, then type your event or person in the search window. 

Encyclopedia Britannica also covers most major events and people.  (look for it on lower-right side of this page)

Eyes on the Prize covers 26 majors events in the movement, with biographies of people and groups, interviews and primary sources such as news articles, videos, music, and art work.

 

Voices of Civil Rights provides interviews and photos of people who witnessed the movement.  

 

Find your topics by looking through the table of listings near the bottom of the page (1900-1980 Issues, Events & Organizations) or find people under Campaigners 1900-2010.    Articles include links to more information. 

 

The Civil Rights Movement Veterans provide a timeline with brief histories of events, links to additional documents, and a Photo Album which is very useful.  Navigate the site with the links on the left side of the homepage. 

 

Take a National Parks Service tour of the towns and cities where civil rights events took place.

 

Many African Americans bravely attended schools which had been attended previously only by white students.

 

Smithsonian Institute chronicles the struggle for equal education. 

 

Read front page news articles for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and biographies of its supporters.

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHIES OF CIVIL RIGHTS

 

 LEADERS & ACTIVISTS

WorldBook Encylopedia contains many biographies of civil rights leaders.    From school, type username:  mvmlibrary and password:  worldbook.  To sign-in from home, the username is:  mvalley  and the password is:  home.

Links to biographies and websites of about 20 people, alphabetically by last name.

 

The Infotrac database of magazine and newspaper articles provides a wealth of information.  From the menu, choose Gale Biography in Context  and search for your person.  

 

Here’s a list of about 100 activists from Biography.com

 

Wikipedia’s list of activists provides a quick note about the person’s role in the movement