Websites About the Civil Rights Movement Archives

Learning for Justice

Website. Films, journal, and readings for teachers on education for equity.

National Visionary Leadership Project

Website. Oral history interviews with hundreds of Africans Americans of note.

Choices Program at Brown University

Website. Readings and video clips for high school students on current issues and key historic events.

Kids in Birmingham 1963

Digital Collection. A resource for the stories of people who were children in Birmingham in 1963.

SNCC Digital Gateway

Digital Collection. Historical materials, profiles, timeline, map, and stories on SNCC’s voting rights organizing.

Freedom Summer 1964 Collection

Digital Collection. Extensive collection on the Civil Rights Movement and the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964.

Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

Website. Classroom lessons and resources to educate young people for hopeful and intelligent engagement with their world.

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed

Website. A comprehensive online reference guide to African American history.

Rethinking Schools

Website. Leading national magazine and publications on pre-K to Grade 12 education.

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching

Teaching Guide and Website. Edited by Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray, and Jenice L. View. 2004. Provides lessons and articles for K-12 educators on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement, with a focus on education, economics, labor, youth, women, and culture.

Teaching Activity by Deborah Menkart

Civil Rights Movement Veterans

Digital Collection. Resources on the Southern Freedom Movement compiled by those who lived it. Includes a bibliography, timelines, photos, primary source documents, and lists of speakers.