Deepen understanding of the Civil Rights Movement with this collection of primary documents. This resource contains 22 video transcripts about desegregation, voting rights, black power, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and more. You might...

A timeline can be a powerful learning tool because it reveals a pattern in events. While few would consider St. Augustine, Florida a hotbed of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, a selection of background information and a timeline of...

While this is a chronology of events from 1945 to 1953 on this issue, the events of 1947-48 show that the Truman administration saw the desegregation of the armed forces as something that would help them with the African American vote.

A biographical look at Ruby Bridges who became famous at six years of age by being the first Black child to attend a desegregated school in America.

Encyclopedia entry examines the Albany Movement, a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Ga. in 1961 with the purpose of ending all forms of racial segregation in the city.

Read about the famous civil rights protest in Little Rock, Kansas in 1957 when nine African American students attempted to enter Central High School on the first day of school. Despite the presence of federal troops at the school for the...

Follow the civil rights quest for integrated schools from the beginning in 1849 through the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. the Topeka Board of Education and the struggle that ensued for decades following in the most reluctant...

Gives the background to the Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

Follow the development of the educational system in Arkansas. What struggles and challenges did education face historically? What were the effects of segregation, then of desegregation on the schools?

In the early 1960s civil rights activists put the ban on segregation to the test. In 1961, "Freedom riders," boarded buses headed south to test the federal ban on segregated travel. And in 1962, the University of Mississippi was ordered...

Provides a background summary for the Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka case.

Blanche Kelso Bruce was a Republican Senator from Mississippi, and the first Black U.S. Senator. He advocated for relief for newly freed slaves, for improving navigation on rivers, and for desegregation of the United States Army. He also...

Perhaps one of the largest ethinc/cultural group to inhabit Arkansas are the African Americans. Follow their first arrival as slaves working the plantations through all the years toward emancipation, and into present times. Highly...

The Mississippi Writers Page provides a biography of Medgar Evers from college to death. Links to related sites available.

After the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. The Topeka Board of Education, the battle for school integration really began as documented in this Digital History article.

Like other U.S. presidents before and after him, Dwight D. Eisenhower was only proactive in instituting civil rights in a very limited way, such as ending segregation in the District of Columbia, including the federal government, and any...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Marion Motley, an African American gridiron football player who helped desegregate professional football in the 1940s during a career that earned him induction into the Pro Football Hall...

Judge Elbert Tuttle was influential during and following the Civil Rights Movement as described in this concise biography.

This ibiblio.org site gives the six-year history of this college based group that supported the civil rights movement and tells of its nonviolent philosophy.

Two months after the Greensboro sit-ins, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed to coordinate the sit-ins and other forms of social activism against white oppression.

Informative biography of one of the founding leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a leading civil rights group of the 1960s.

Discusses the issues of cultural and racial differences and how these should be addressed in schools. Includes objectives and lesson activities.

An overview of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case is found in this encyclopedia article. The background, the decision, and the significance of the case are discussed.

This is a detailed explanation as to what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was, how it came about, and how it affected American society. Includes a photograph of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act into law.