CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE 1950’S AND 1960’S PATHFINDER
Karen M. Iannitti
Civil Rights Movement in the
1950’s and 1960’s
Tenth Grade --
Civil Rights Research
Project
CONTENT
This pathfinder contains
information for researching the United States Civil Rights Movement of the
1950s and 1960s, including the Little Rock Nine and school desegregation, the
Montgomery bus boycott, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Black Panthers, Supreme Court rulings, and
important people to the movement.
Dewey Numbers: 92, 303, 323,
920, 973.
Subject Headings:
African-Americans—Biography
African-Americans— Civil
rights
African-Americans-- History
Black Muslims
Black power--
Civil rights
Civil rights—History
Civil rights movement
Civil rights-United
States-Cases
Civil rights workers
Civil Rights
workers-Biography
Desegregation in education
Montgomery {
Segregation in
transportation—History
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference—History
Southern states--Race
relations
You may wish to begin your
research by accessing INFOHIO RESOURCES at www.infohio.org. Go to grades 7-12 and
choose one or more of these resources.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.
Search for
information in three encyclopedias with video clips and evaluated Web sites.
American National Biography
Each article traces the
person's life chronologically--most include a photo—only covers deceased
Americans.
Annals of American History
Primary Sources--speeches,
historical accounts, memoirs, and images. For civil rights choose the topic
discrimination and diversity.
Ebscohost
Full-text articles from over
6,000 magazines, journals, and newspapers.
http://home.swbell.net/chmuseum/
Timeline,
Historical Profiles, Photo Gallery
Links to photos,
videos
http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/central/abxnine10.html
1999 Congressional
Medals of Honor
http://www.louisianahistory.ourfamily.com/arkansas/littlerock9.html
Background article
on
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/race_relations/jan-june97/bridges_2-18.html
Transcript of
interview w. Ruby Bridges
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/Welcome.htm
Links to timeline,
issues, leaders, dictionary, etc
http://rubybridges.org/home.htm
Biographical,
historical and current info.
40 years later…
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/11/14/ruby.bridges.ap/
Ruby Bridges
update—cnn.com
The African American
Registry
http://www.aaregistry.com/month.php
Search by names,
keyword, month
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilrights.htm
Many biographical
links
http://www.tennessean.com/slideshows/2003/news/civilrights/nash/index.shtml
Diane Nash photos
http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2003/nash-jan-8-03.html
Current activities of Diane
Nash
http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/nash.htm
Historical
SNCC 1960-1966
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/people.html
History &
Profiles
SNCC-Ella Baker
http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/articles/black_women_3.htm
Article-No
pictures
History of the SNCC
http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/mds/sncchist.html
Ella Baker
Seattle-Times: MLK Jr.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/
http://www.life.com/Life/mlk/mlk.html
Life covers &
images of MLK
The Martin Luther King Jr.
Papers Project
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Speeches,
biography, events, etc
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs218.html
Bio sketch with links
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC) History
http://sclcnational.org/nonprofit/sclc/history.asp?siteid=2607
Official site
Academy of achievement: Rosa
Parks
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
Biography, photos,
interview
Many links
http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/interview.htm
Interview,
history, photos.
King Encyclopedia
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/
Entries
for Ella Baker, Stokely Carmichael, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, SNCC, Montgomery Bus Boycott,
SCLC (Biographies, Pictures, and Links)
Fannie Lou Hamer
http://www.africawithin.com/bios/fannie_hamer.htm
Gale Resource
James Meredith (Ole Miss)
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/meredith_james/
Short bio with links
http://www.jfklibrary.org/meredith/jm.html
2
letters Meredith wrote
NPR
James Meredith
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/olemiss/
Photos, web links, and audio clips.
http://www.jofreeman.com/photos/meredith.html
Many photos
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml
Pictures from
civil rights movement
http://www.interchange.org/Kwameture/nytimes111698.html
Article about his
death
http://www.afro.com/history/Panthers/panther-lead.html
Links to other
sites
Primary source
Stokely
Carmichael-name change
http://www.life.com/Life/boomers/lewis.html
Life interview with John
Lewis
John Lewis was at the
Forefront of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.jacksonsun.com/civilrights/sec1_lewis.shtml
Historical news article
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/hill/marshall.htm
Biography and
timeline
http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/home.htm
Links to
interviews and speeches
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct02.html
Bio with links
http://www.landmarkcases.org/brown/marshall.html
Bio,
cartoon, and links
FOR
MORE IN-DEPTH INFORMATION THE FOLLOWING BOOKS AND VIDEOS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE
AMELIA HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY :
92 BAK
Dallard, Shyrlee. Ella Baker : a leader behind the scenes.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Silver Burdett Press, c1990.
Examines the life of the civil
rights worker who organized
for
freedom and was a key figure in the formation of the
Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
92 CAR
Johnson, Jacqueline. Stokely Carmichael : the story of Black
power. Englewood Cliffs, NJ :
Silver Burdett Press, c1990.
A biography of the man who made
famous the words "Black
Power" as he fought for
the rights of black people in this
country,
and later settled in
young
Africans to work for their rights.
92 HAM
Rubel,
David. Fannie Lou Hamer : from sharecropping
to politics.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Silver Burdett Press, c1990.
Follows the life of one of the
first black organizers of
voter
registration in
92 KIN
Garrow,
David J., 1953-. Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King,
Jr.,
and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 1st
ed.
92 KIN
King, Coretta
Scott, 1927-. My life
with Martin Luther King, Jr.
[1st ed.].
92 KIN
Rowland, Della. Martin Luther King, Jr. :
the dream of peaceful
revolution.
biography of
the Nobel Peace Prize winner who showed us that
a
struggle can be waged without violence.
92 KIN
Smith, Sande. Martin Luther King.
Books, Inc., 1999. A well-illustrated story of the life and
work
of Martin Luther King Jr.
92 KIN
Wukovits,
John F., 1944-. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
: Lucent Books, 1999. Discusses the childhood, education,
social
activism, and assassination of the noted civil rights
leader.
92 MAL
Davies, Mark, 1963-. Malcolm X : another
side of the movement.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Silver Burdett Press, c1990. A
biography
of the Afro-American who led a movement to unite
Black people thoughout the world.
92 MAL
Sagan,
Miriam. Malcolm X.
Examines the unanswered
questions surrounding the murder of
Malcolm X.
92 MAL
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965. The autobiography of
Malcolm X.
: Ballantine
Books, 1973, c1965. Story of national
leader
who
rose to prominence as a Negro force in shaping the
destiny
of this country.
92 MAR
Aldred,
Lisa. Thurgood
c1990. Examines the life of the first black man to
be
appointed
an associate justice of the highest court in the
country.
92 MAR
Hess, Debra. Thurgood Marshall : the fight for equal justice.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Silver Burdett Press, c1990.
Examines the life of the first
black man to be appointed an
associate
justice to the United States Supreme Court.
92 PAR
Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks.
Profiles Rosa Parks, who, in
1955
up her
seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, and
thereby
sparked the bus boycott that made Martin Luther
King, Jr.,
famous and helped end the Jim Crow laws.
92 PAR
Friese,
Kai. Rosa Parks :
the movement organizes.
Cliffs, NJ :
Silver Burdett Press, c1990. A biography
of
the
a bus
helped establish the civil rights movement.
323.09 HAS
Haskins, James, 1941-. I have a dream : the
life and words of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Press, c1992. Presents the life, words, and principles of
the
noted civil rights worker through extensive quotations
from his
speeches and writings.
323. 092 VER
Vernell,
Marjorie, 1948-. Leaders
of Black civil rights. San
Thurgood
Marshall -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Malcolm X --
Fannie Lou Hamer
-- Jesse Jackson -- Myrlie Evers-Williams.
Discusses
seven leaders of the civil rights movement.
323.4 KIN
King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
1929-1968. The words of Martin Luther
King, Jr. 1st ed.
323.4 WIL
Wilson, Reginald, 1927-. Think about our rights :
civil
liberties
and the
c1988. A discussion of the rights and
responsibilities that
citizens
of the
issues
affect young people.
342.73 LAW
Lawson, Don. Landmark Supreme Court
cases.
Supreme Court cases, addressing
such issues as desegregation
of
schools and the Miranda case, and considers the future of
the
Supreme Court.
920 GAR
Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson, 1912-. The
the
women who started it : the memoir of Jo Ann Gibson
Robinson.
920 PRO
Profiles in
courage for our time. 1st ed.
c2002. .
Contains profiles of individuals and groups, all
elected
officials at the national, state, or local level,
who
have been presented with the Profile in Courage Award by
the
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation since 1990 for
standing
fast for the ideals of
personal
risk.
920 RED
Rediger,
Pat, 1966-. Great
African Americans in Civil Rights.
Americans in the field of civil
rights, including Martin
Luther King,
Malcolm X and
973 WEI
Weisbrot,
Robert. Marching toward freedom, 1957-1965 : from the
founding of
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to
the
assassination of Malcom X.
Describes the civil rights
movement of African Americans
from
1957 to 1965.
973.04 DAV
Davis, Marianna. Contributions of black
women to
973.92 GOO
Goode, Stephen. Assassination! : Kennedy, King, Kennedy. New
President Kennedy, Martin
Luther King, Jr., and Robert
Kennedy; the investigations of
the murders; and the
lingering
suspicions that these crimes are still unsolved.
REF 303.48 ENG
Engelbert,
Phillis. Activists, rebels, and reformers. Volume 1,
A-F.
"A-F," presents
biographical sketches on individuals and
organizations
that have helped shape the course of history.
REF 303.48 ENG
Engelbert,
Phillis. Activists, rebels, and reformers. Volume 2,
G-M.
"G-M," presents
biographical sketches of individuals and
organizations
that have helped shape the course of history.
REF 303.48 ENG
Engelbert,
Phillis. Activists, rebels, and reformers. Volume 3,
N-Z.
"N-Z," presents
biographical sketches of individuals and
organizations
that have helped shape the course of history.
REF 323.1 AME
American civil rights
: primary sources.
Presents fifteen documents,
including speeches,
autobiographical
text, and proclamations, related to the
civil
rights movement and arranged in the categories of
economic
rights, desegregation, and human rights.
REF 323.1 AME
Engelbert,
Phillis.
American civil rights almanac (v. 1 )
Americans ;
Civil rights of Latinos.
REF 323.1 AME
Engelbert,
Phillis. American civil rights biographies. 1st ed.
rights
figures, including sidebars covering related events
and
issues.
VC # 241
King, Montgomery to
Video, 1988. Through newsreel and television excerpts,
this
documentary
captures the eloquence and courage in striking
words
and images of the civil rights leader Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
VC #733
Martin Luther King, Jr. MPI Home Video, 1990.
VC #883
Mighty times :
the legacy of Rosa Parks.
Teaching
Tolerance, 2002. Includes
teachers guide. Over
the course of a year, the Montgomery Bus
Boycott would test
the
endurance of the peaceful protestors, overturn an unjust
law
and create a legacy of mighty times that continue to
inspire
those who work for freedom and justice
today