A History of the Civil Rights Movement

Internet Resources

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/creating.htm

This site links to several essays on American society during the Jim Crow years. It also gives various individual’s perspectives on how Jim Crow affected their lives.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/

Hosted by the Library of Congress, this website revisits the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. The site features photos of people and doc uments relating to the years before and after the 1954 order to desegregate public schools.

http://www.morethanabusride.org

The website for the film More Than a Bus Ride provides background information on civil rights activist Jo Ann Robinson and the women plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit Browder v. Gayle .

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize

Based on the PBS American Experience television series Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement 1954–1985 , this site links to profiles on people and documents from the time.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow

This website provides background information on segregation in the United States and Jim Crow laws. Includes maps and activities.

http://www.rosaparks.org

This official website of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development provides information on the institute and a detailed biography of Rosa Parks.

Publisher’s Note: The Web sites listed on these pages were active at the time of publication. The publisher is not responsible for Web sites that have changed their address or discontinued operation since the date of publication.

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