Civil Rights Movement

To Kill a Mockingbird and Civil Rights Movement Assignment

Begin your research by reading the Civil Rights Movement article from Britannica Encyclopedia (3 reading levels). Search through related articles from World Book Encyclopedia (advanced).

For Biographical Information about important figures related to the Civil Rights Movement, Use our Biography in Context database.  

Other Research Sites for Civil Rights Movement
 
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/civilrights/external.html
 
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/civilrights/websites
 
http://besthistorysites.net/american-history/civil-rights/

*** Please note the “I have a dream” YouTube video is not available on this site but it is available for viewing at 
                                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE
 
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/article/civil-rights-movement-sites-students-and-researchers

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Important Events of the Civil Rights Movement

Brown Vs. Board of Education 
Little  Rock 9
16th  Street Baptist Church Bombing 
Selma  to Montgomery March (3) 
Freedom  Summer 
Greensboro  Sit-in
Children's Crusade/Birmingham Campaign
Freedom  Rides
March on Washington
Civil  Rights Act of 1964
Montgomery Bus  Boycott
Voting Rights Act  1965 
Watts Riots - 1965
Watts Riots - 1992
Black Lives Matter Movement

Important Figures of the Civil Rights Movement
 
Rosa Parks
Emmett Till
Ku Klux Klan
Medgar Evers
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King
"Bull" Connor
Black Panther Party
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
James Chaney/Michael Schwerner/Andrew Goodman
Jimmie Lee Jackson
James Meredith
Josephine Baker
Ella Fitzgerald
Jackie Robinson
Mohammed Ali
Malcolm X

Photo Credit: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Photo by Rowland Scherman for USIA - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration