Primary Sources
To find additional primary sources, use these searchable websites.
The Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
National Archives and Records Administration:
http://www.archives.gov/
Smithsonian National Museum of American History: Online Exhibitions: http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/category.cfm?category=online
(Excellent exhibits on Brown vs. Board of Education, Labor Rights and Disability Rights)
African American
For more information on the African American Civil Rights Movement, see these resources.
Voices of Civil Rights
http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/index.html
Martin Luther King, Jr. – “I Have a Dream” speech
http://usinfo.state.gov/infousa/government/overview/38.html
Six Principles of Nonviolence by Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.thekingcenter.org/prog/non/6principles.html
Books
The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
by Dennis Brindell Fradin, Judith Bloom Fradin
Through My Eyes
by Ruby Bridges, Margo Lundell (Editor)
Additional resources for High School students
C-Span: Multimedia Civil Rights Primary Sources
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/bhm2004.asp
Infoplease Civil Rights Timeline: Milestones in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html
PBS: Eyes on the Prize – America’s Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/index.html
The Seattle Times: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/
Smithsonian Museum: Separate but not Equal Exhibit
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/segregated-america.html
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
http://www.landmarkcases.org/index.html
Asian American
For more information on the Asian American Civil Rights Movement, see these resources.
Conscience and the Constitution.
A PBS documentary on Japanese American draft resisters.
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/conscience/index.html
University of Washington Libraries’ Japanese American Exhibit (Camp Harmony)
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive
http://jarda.cdlib.org/
Books
When Justice Failed: The Fred Korematsu Story
by Steven A. Chin
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
by Jeanne Houston and James D. Houston
Journey To Topaz: A Story Of The Japanese-American Evacuation
by Yoshiko Uchida, Donald Carrick
Tales from Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World
by Paul Yee
Child Labor
For more information on the Child Labor Movement, see these resources.
Child Labor in America 1908-1912: Photographs of Lewis Hine
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
Child Labor: An American Pictorial History
http://www.awesomestories.com/history/child_labor/child_labor_ch1.htm
Books
Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers’ Rights
by Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
by Russell Freedman
Ashes of Roses
by Mary Jane Auch
The story of an Irish immigrant girl who works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911 New York.
Lyddie
By Katherine Paterson
A historical novel about a young women working at a Lowell, Massachusetts mill.
Women’s Suffrage
For more information on the Women’s Suffrage Movement, see these resources.
Western New York Suffragists: Winning the Vote
http://winningthevote.org/
Women’s Suffrage on Spartacus.net
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsuffrage.htm
Books
Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
by Lynn Sherr
Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote
by Doris Stevens, Carol O’Hare (Editor), Edith Mayo (Introduction)
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?
by Patricia C. McKissack, With Fredrick L. McKissack
Additional resources for High School students
Encyclopedia Britannica Profiles: 300 Women Who Changed the World
http://www.britannica.com/women/articles/Equal_Rights_Amendment.html
The Equal Rights Amendment
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/
The History Channel: Women’s History Month Exhibit
http://www.history.com/minisites/womenhist/
The National Women’s History Museum: Women’s Suffrage Cyber Exhibit
http://www.nwhm.org/exhibits/intro.html
PBS: Women and the Vote
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/womenvote.html
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
http://www.landmarkcases.org/index.html
Rights Today
The Civil Rights Coalition for the 21st Century
http://www.civilrights.org/issues/index.html
Voices of Civil Rights: Civil Rights Today
http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/civil.html
