Civil Rights Movement and Desegregation

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• Eyes on the Prize
• Little Rock Nine
• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
• North Carolina
• *Who Speaks for the Negro?
  In 1965, Random House published Robert Penn Warren’s book titled Who Speaks for the Negro? In preparation for writing the volume, Warren traveled throughout the United States in early 1964 and spoke with large numbers of men and women who were involved in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. He interviewed nationally-known figures as well as people working in the trenches of the movement whose names might otherwise be lost to history. In each case, he recorded their conversations on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. The published volume contains sections of transcripts from these conversations as well as Warren’s reflections on the individuals he interviewed and his thoughts on the state of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. The Who Speaks for the Negro? website is a digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by Robert Penn Warren in 1965. The archive consists of digitized versions of the original reel-to-reel recordings that Warren compiled for each of his interviewees as well as print materials related to the project. All of the print materials appear on the website in two versions: an image of the original document which is not searchable and a re-transcribed document which is searchable.
• 1956 Martin Luther King "Montgomery Story" Comic Book
• America in the 20th Century The Civil Rights Movement (81 min)
  America in the 20th Century The Civil Rights Movement Reconstruction to Redemption. 2010. Produced and distributed by Media Rich Learning, 3 Cypress Lane, Chesterton, IN 46304; 773-909-7124 Reviewed by Jason R. Harshman, The Ohio State University, 11/3/2010 Part of the America in the 20th Century series, this installment about the Civil Rights Movement begins with a brief overview of the Civil War and traces the evolvement of the Civil Rights Movement through the end of the 1960s. . . . This program addresses the political underpinnings—concerns regarding state’s rights and election campaigns specifically . . . footage of a press conference in which President Eisenhower admits his hesitance to become too involved in the issue of civil rights and the actual White House audio recordings of phone conversations held between President Johnson, Senator James Eastland, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover regarding the murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964. . . . resources available on the Media Rich Learning web site."
• Brooklyn Dodgers autographed baseball
  Roy Campanella Jackie Robinson Bud Podbielan Andy Pafko Clyde King
• Elders of the movement (Institute for Southern Studies)
  (Archived page courtesy of the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.)
  The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation funds organizations in the South working to move people and places out of poverty. The foundation recently launched a "Southern Voices" oral history project to capture the stories of Southern leaders working for social and economic justice. The first installment of the project focuses on elders in the movement who continue to work for the cause today.
• Gladys Reynolds recollections about minority advancement history
• Historic Black Towns and Settlements
  "Mayors of five of America’s most historic Black towns have formed an alliance to protect and preserve for future generations the heritage, history and cultural traditions of Alliance members such that those who follow will have the ability to assume active stewardship to understand, interpret and appreciate these historic places through the lenses of their inhabitants."
• How the Bloomberg School Enforced the Color Line in Admissions—And Then Broke It
  Karen Kruse Thomas, August 31, 2020
  An excerpt from Health and Humanity: A History of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935–1985
  
• I AM A MAN
  Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
  By William R. Ferris; Foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch III
  Hardcover : 9781496831620, 145 pages, 25 color and 113 b&w photographs, February 2021
• Jackie Robinson - a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon
  JACKIE ROBINSON, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon examining the life and times of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, who lifted an entire race, and nation, on his shoulders when he crossed baseball’s color line in 1947.
• Looking Back On 50 Years Of Busing In Boston (11 min)
  Audie Cornish, NPR, Oct 5, 2016 It's been more than 60 years since the Supreme Court's landmark case Brown v. Board of Education ruled racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional — a watershed moment for the modern civil rights movement in America. Yet 2016 began with one of the nation's top educators — the secretary of education — declaring that the job of desegregating the nation's public schools is far from over: "There are communities around this country that have schools that are more segregated today than they were 10 years or 20 years ago," John B. King Jr. said in January. I know this, in part, because I was in a desegregation program as a kid: a school busing program in Boston that is still going today.
• NPR - Shedding Light On Civil Rights-Era Citizens Councils
  Hodding Carter interviewed by Audie Cornish, NPR, December 23, 2010
• Segregation in America
  Report and digital exhibit by the Equal Justice Initiative America’s history of racial inequality continues to haunt us. The genocide of Native people, 250-year enslavement of black people, adoption of “racial integrity laws” that demonized ethnic immigrants and people of color, and enforcement of policies and practices designed to perpetuate white supremacy are all part of our difficult past. This country has witnessed great triumph, innovation, and progress, but we are burdened by a painful history that we have yet to adequately acknowledge.
• Sherman James - Healing the Wounds: The Health Disparities Legacy of the 1960's Civil Rights Movement
  The annual Health Sciences Program MLK presentation features Sherman A. James delivering his keynote speech, titled "Healing the Wounds: The Health Disparities Legacy of the 1960's Civil Rights Movement". The event was held on January 17, 2011 at Dow Auditorium at the University of Michigan.
• SNCC Digital Gateway
  In 2013, the SNCC Legacy Project (SLP) and Duke University, represented by the Center for Documentary Studies and Duke Libraries, formed a partnership to chronicle the historic struggles for voting rights and to develop programs that contribute to a more civil and inclusive democracy. SNCC—the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—was at the cutting edge of direct action and grassroots organizing during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. (Archived page courtesy of the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine)
• The Sit-In Movement
  Christopher W. Schmidt, American History, Oxford Research Encyclopedias. 30 July 2018
  Summary: e of the most significant protest campaigns of the civil rights era, the lunch counter sit-in movement began on February 1, 1960 when four young African American men sat down at the whites-only lunch counter of the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Refused service, the four college students sat quietly until the store closed. They continued their protest on the following days, each day joined by more fellow students. Students in other southern cities learned what was happening and started their own demonstrations, and in just weeks, lunch counter sit-ins were taking place across the South. By the end of the spring, tens of thousands of black college and high school students, joined in some cases by sympathetic white students, had joined the sit-in movement. Several thousand went to jail for their efforts after being arrested on charges of trespass, disorderly conduct, or whatever other laws southern police officers believed they could use against the protesters.
  
  The sit-ins arrived at a critical juncture in the modern black freedom struggle. The preceding years had brought major breakthroughs, such as the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation ruling in 1954 and the successful Montgomery bus boycott of 1955–1956, but by 1960, activists were struggling to develop next steps. The sit-in movement energized and transformed the struggle for racial equality, moving the leading edge of the movement from the courtrooms and legislative halls to the streets and putting a new, younger generation of activists on the front lines. It gave birth to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the most important activist groups of the 1960s. It directed the nation’s attention to the problem of racial discrimination in private businesses that served the public, pressured business owners in scores of southern cities to open their lunch counters to African American customers, and set in motion a chain of events that would culminate in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned racial discrimination in public accommodations across the nation.