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Montgomery Bus Boycott website – This is a wonderful teaching site that offers a contextual explanation of Montgomery both before and after the Civil Rights Movement. It provides a ready-to-use lesson plan for teaching the bus boycott, including scanned primary documents: the Montgomery City Code for segregation and bus riding; contemporary newspaper articles and an editorial on the bus boycott; the list of the Montgomery African Americans "Most Urgent Needs"; a letter informing the city of cancelled building plans by a New Jersey businessman after King's arrest; Integrated bus suggestions from the week after the Supreme Court ruling. It also offers links to Civil Rights museums and sites with good photos.

Alabama Department of Archives and History - Civil Rights Movement Unit – This site includes tips for using primary sources in classroom teaching of the Civil Rights Movement. It is divided into sections including Opinions of the public (during the Movement), Birmingham in 1963, the Selma to Montgomery March, and Voting Rights.

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Academic Info – This site offers a list of information, links, and biographies of a few significant African Americans. It includes links to several civil rights museums, oral history bibliographies, FBI documents from the Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney murders; and a link to a photo tour of the Civil Rights Movement that includes many of the people and events covered in "Circle." It provides teaching resources including quizzes and study guides.

American Political Science Association – This is the site offers resources for teaching and research, an email discussion list, book recommendations, links, and sample syllabi. Topic sections include: African-American Politics, History, Art and Culture, African-American Organizations, Caribbean, Brazil, and Spanish American.

Social Studies School Service – Black History – This site includes critical essays, product reviews, and ordering information for Black History materials, including posters. It also provides links to sites and information about Rosa Parks with lesson plans on the separate but equal/segregation debate.

Department of Justice Kid's Page –  This site includes a section on civil rights for 6th –12th graders, providing background on education, employment, and housing, and the experiences of American Indians and the Japanese American internment. It also offers links for more information for teachers and parents. It does not include student activities.

Little Rock 9, Integration 0? – This site presents a classroom activity guide for discussing modern day issues of integration through the lens of the 1957 Central High School events. It includes an introduction page with questions for thought; assigns students the roles of either historian, news reporter, or social scientist to conduct an internet study of Central High's integration and discuss the modern day issue from those roles.

Yale-New Haven Teachers' Institute – From Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education – This site offers a complete six-week teaching unit for discussing the Supreme Court's role in desegregating public schools at the high school level. It includes sample lesson plans, classroom materials, assignments, major discussion topics, and teacher and student bibliographies.

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Powerful Days in Black and White – This site presents 53 photographs with short captions of the Civil Rights Movement – mainly in Alabama and Mississippi – taken by Alabama's Montgomery-Advertiser newspaper photographer Charles Moore. Photographs include King during the desegregation of Montgomery, voter registration drives in Mississippi, and the Selma to Montgomery March. Some of the photographs can also be seen at the Kodak website.

Martin Luther King, Jr. – Living Memory – This is an interactive website of the photographs Benedict Hernandez took of Martin Luther King in the late 1960s. Each photo offers a short paragraph describing situation it depicts and allows viewers to add their story or reactions to the page.

Persistence of the Spirit:
Black Experience in Arkansas – This site includes short narrative pages that break the African-American experience in Arkansas into five time periods from 1803 to post-1954 with photos and drawings for each period. It lists several bibliographical references, including autobiographies, of significant African-American Arkansans and web links to other sites on African-American history, culture, and Civil Rights. It also contains a list of public programs across the state of Arkansas with contact information for traveling exhibits and documentary videos.

Ohio State University Black Studies Library – This site provides links to pages containing transcripts of, essays about, and audio discussing several significant documents in Civil Rights and African-American history, including full and edited texts of the Brown v. the Board of Education decision, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and Amendments 13, 14, 15, 19, and 26, and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1991.

African-American Odyssey:
The Library of Congress – The Library of Congress' website to African-American history includes a section on the Civil Rights Era. It offers several photographs as well as short primary resources, including President Truman's Executive Order ending segregation in the Armed Forces and a Chicago Defender headline announcing the Order; the first page of Kenneth Clark's essay "The Genesis of Racial Identification and Preferences in Negro Children" used in Brown v. Board of Education, a memo by Thurgood Marshall on a Texas Primary case, a letter by Daisy Bates to Roy Wilkins about the difficulties the Little Rock Nine students were facing after enrolling at Central High, and a Montgomery Advertiser headline about a large Bus Boycott meeting.

Documents Related to
Brown v. The Board of Education – The National Archives and Records Administration's website offers the text of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and Article III of the Constitution which outlines the powers of the Supreme Court, as well as scanned copies of the Dissenting Opinion of Judge Waites Waring in Harry Briggs, Jr., et al. v. R. W. Elliott, Chairman, et al., a letter by President Eisenhower in 1954 mentioning the issue of segregation, and the Judgement in Brown v. The Board of Education. It also provides a correlation to national standards, resources, and ten activities.

Library of Congress: Civil Rights Photograph – This site offers a great photograph of an Atlanta student sit-in in 1963 with Ivanhoe Donaldson, John Lewis, and others.

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Hall of Public Service – Rosa Parks – Written transcript, video and audio of a 1995 interview with Rosa Parks are included in this site.

MLK Web: A Teacher's Guide –  This site is a directory of websites relating to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, offering resources that include speeches, photographs and images, biographies, chronologies, articles, lesson plans, classroom materials, books, videos, audio tapes, tributes, etc.

The Life and Works of Martin Luther King, Jr. – This is a netguide website on Martin Luther King, Jr. that includes a biography, speeches and writings, suggestions for celebrating King Day, places associated with King, photographs, and other primary documents. It also offers links to many other Civil Rights sites.

Martin Luther King, Jr. – This site provides essays on King by Andrew Young, Julian Bond and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s first Civil Rights attorney. It includes photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, a timeline of the Movement from 1954 to 1992, and a discussion of its legacy. It provides information on the origins of and selected events on King Day and includes student information, essays in which high school students reflect on King, a dialogue between students in Alabama and Washington state, a quiz on King, a study guide for teachers, and other internet links.

Martin Luther King Papers Project at Stanford – This site, created by the editors of the complete volumes of King's writings, includes a chronology of Kings life and transcripts from eleven of King's speeches, including the "I have a Dream" speech, the letter from the Birmingham jail, and the "I have been to the Mountaintop" speech (King's last speech, given in Memphis). It also includes a list of articles and biographies on King.

The King Center – The website of the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, includes a chronology of King's life, links to King Day events, a list of the collections in the King Center archives and library, and a King photogallery, including photographs of King's arrest in Montgomery, a civil rights rally in Montgomery, the March on Washington, King with his family, the Selma to Montgomery March, and the family bringing King home for burial. You can also order many books about King, posters, tapes, photos, clothing, and gifts on the site and it provides a glossary of nonviolence.

Daisy Bates Papers – The information site of the Daisy Bates Papers Collection at the University of Arkansas, this site offers a biography of Daisy Bates and photographs of her and the Little Rock Nine students.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement – This website, hosted by Western Michigan University, offers a timeline with some photographs of major events from the Civil Rights Movement, from 1954 to 1965.

Greensboro Sit-ins:
Launch of a Civil Rights Movement – This website, posted by the News and Record newspaper, provides a timeline from 1865 to 1989, covering the Civil Rights Movement and African-American history with photographs as well as a detailed timeline of the events surrounding the student sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Modern Civil Rights Movement Timeline – From A. Philip Randolph's plans for a March on Washington in 1941 through the election of Richard Nixon as President over George Wallace in 1968, this website offers a broad timeline of significant events in modern civil rights history, including Jackie Robinson's entrance into Major League Baseball and the initiation of "Affirmative Action" programs under LBJ.

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The National Civil Rights Museum – This website provides an interactive tour, including pages with easy to understand contextual information on 36 topics relating to African-American and Civil Rights history. Topics range from the Civil War and Emancipation to Black Economic Boycotts, the Little Rock Nine, and the March on Washington, including short biography pages on several individuals and organizations of significance to African-American history.

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University of Virginia's Multicultural Pavilion – This Multicultural Pavilion website contains resources and dialogues for educators, students, and activists and includes links to hundreds of related sites that are organized by topics – ethnicity, identity, resources, and archives. It includes a documents section with works by Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. DuBois, and Frederick Douglas, and Supreme Court cases, essays and poems. It also offers a Teacher's Corner resources, activities, primary documents, photographs, links, reading lists, and information on progressive education organizations.

Crosspoint Anti-Racism – This website, hosted by Amsterdam's Magenta Foundation, expands civil rights issues into human rights issues. It provides links to international human rights organizations and issues, including 1500 organizations in 110 different countries. Links are organized both by country and issue

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights – This website provides text of civil rights legislation, excerpts of the "I have a Dream speech"; educational materials on diversity; a Civil Rights events calendar and Civil Rights timeline that begins in 1619 with the first African-American slaves coming to America; speeches by Civil Rights activists; and information on migration, affirmative action, and the Census.

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The Civil Rights Movement: 1955-1965 – This website was created by a Lisa Cozzens, a high school student who transferred information she uncovered while conducting research for school papers into web text. It provides pages of background on African-American history, extending from 1857's Dred Scott case to school integration efforts in 1975 with almost thirty-five pages on the Civil Rights Movement and local efforts for school integration from Boston to Little Rock.

We Shall Overcome:
Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement – This National Register of Historic Places interactive website offers photographs and information about 42 sites of significance to the Civil Rights Movement in 21 states (including all five Circle states). The sites are arranged on a map, allowing the user to select the states and cities in which they are interested. It also provides background information on the Civil Rights Movement and its legacy and a list of references, including books for young readers.

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The Orangeburg Massacre – This brief website includes photographs of the three students killed in the Orangeburg Massacre on the book jacket of the book by that name along with a short description of the text.

The May 1970 Tragedy at Jackson State University: "Lest We Forget" – A part of the Jackson State University website, this site includes six web pages of text and seven photographs describing the events of May 14th and 15th when two young men were killed during protests at Jackson State University and the impact of those protests and deaths.

Magic Bus Tour – This website takes you through the 13 cities along the 1997 Majic Bus Tour sponsored by the University of New Orleans of significant Civil Rights Movement cities. It includes Real Audio links to speeches: in Atlanta by Julian Bond about his involvement in the Atlanta student sit-ins and the creation of SNCC; in Montgomery by Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center about legal battles for civil rights; in Jackson by Bob Moses about the legacy of Medgar Evers and Moses' Algebra Project; and in Little Rock by Melba Beales about her experiences at Central High School, by Annie Abrams and two mothers of Little Rock Nine students. Included on this site are contemporary photographs of significant sites and people as well as student reflections along the Tour.

A Short History of Atlanta: 1931-1965 – This site offers a broad year-by-year timeline of events and facts of importance regarding Atlanta from the 1930s through the 1960s. Included are populations statistics, the arrival of major businesses, labor statistics, political elections, and communications achievements, as well as detailed events of civil rights significance.

1957 Desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas – Along with six photographs of the desegregation of Central High School, this site offers a brief timeline of the activities in Little Rock during the eight years before 1957 through 1987, from the integration of the University of Arkansas Law School in 1949, through post-Brown student applications to attend the previously-white schools, the closing of the public high schools, and the complete integration of Little Rock's public schools in 1972, to anniversary celebrations and commemorations in following years.

Little Rock 1957: Pages from History – This is an Arkansas Democrat and Arkansas Gazette website that offers a timeline, descriptions of 24 key figures in the Central High School crisis, photographs, editorials and articles published in the papers during 1957, and speeches and writings looking back on the 1957 event, including Gov. Orval Faubus's defense of his actions.

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