AFRICAN-AMERICAN
Civil Rights

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

   Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

CHRONOLOGY

Timeline
Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at The University of Southern Mississippi

Timeline:  Civil Rights Era (1954-1971)
   African American World/PBS/

Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement
  Atlanta Regional Center for Higher Education

FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHS

Powerful days in black and white
   Through the eyes of photo-journalist, Charles Moore

Photo Album:  Images of a Peoples' Movement
    Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website

INDIVIDUAL VOICES

Voices of Civil Rights:  Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories
This site is a joint project of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress. Copyright 2004,

MUSEUMS

International Civil Rights Center and Museum (Greensboro, NC)

Albany Civil Rights Movement Museum
   (Old Mt. Zion Church, Albany, Georgia)

National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN)

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
The BCRI is both a museum and an Institute.  As it provides the world a forum for reflection, study and dialogue on matters related to civil and human rights, the BCRI exists as a "living institution" of national and international scope.

Civil Rights Heritage Center
  Indiana University South Bend

WIDE-RANGE INFORMATION

WE SHALL OVERCOME
Historic Places & the Civil Rights Movement
A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
     A partnership project produced by the U.S. Department of Interior, National Park  Service, U.S. Department of Transportation, The Federal Highway Administration, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers

America's Civil Rights Movement
   Tolerance.org/Southern Poverty Law Center

Eyes on the Prize:  America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985
    Special presentation of the American Experience/PBS

Beyond Brown:  Pursuing the Promise
   PBS, 2004
    On May 17, 1954, in its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S.
Supreme Court struck down the doctrine of “separate but equal,” ending legal segregation in American education. Fifty years later, how close is America to
fulfilling the promise of Brown?