COMP 100-SS: Composition (CRN 228)
MWF 12:00-12:50, SCHU 307

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These links relate to the readings in your main text The American Civil Rights Movement (they are suggested by the author) and may help in your research. If you find other useful links, please let me know, and I'll be happy to add them to this site.

Chapter 1: The Architecture of Segregation

Civil Rights History Guide
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Negro Baseball Leagues
Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South
Timeline of African American History

Chapter 2: From Resistance to a Social Movement

The Martin Luther King Jr Research and Education Institute
The Internet Modern Social Movements Page
NAACP Homepage
Southern Oral History Program (from UNC Chapel Hill)
The Ella Baker Center

Chapter 3: Brown and Beyond: Rising Expectations, 1953-1959

Brown vs. Board of Education (Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research)
The National Civil Rights Museum
HUArchivesNet (electronic journal concerning African American history)
Martin Luther King Jr & the Civil Rights Movement (presented by the Seattle Times)
Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement

Chapter 4: Student Activism and the Emergence of a Mass Movement, 1960-1965

The Southern Institute for Education and Research
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum (in Mt. Zion, GA)

Chapter 5: The Militant Years, 1966-1968

The Mississippi Writers Page for James Meredith
Malcolm X: A Research Site
The Black Panther Party Research Project

Chapter 6: Integration or Segregation?

Civil Rights Project at UCLA
US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
PBS's site on Race and Society

Background from Backgrounds Archive