Human Rights

An online resource from the University of Baltimore about the history and impact of the 1968 riots in Baltimore City.

An extensive collection of digitized resources about the Civil Rights Movement across the United States. Includes an interactive map, keyword search, and browsable index of people, places, and topics related to Civil Rights in America.

A list of online resources pertaining to the Civil Rights Movement across America, compiled by the Library of Congress. Includes links to online exhibits, guides, bibliographies, and digitized resources.

An extensive resource from the National Archives about the Brown v. Board of Education Decision. Provides access to digitized documents from the case, including the judgment and dissenting opinions.

Part of the American Experience series developed by PBS, this site provides extensive information about the civil rights activists who rode interstate buses from May until November 1961 in order to challenge segregation in America. Includes full episode and biographies of individuals involved.

Online access to publications from the USCCR from the University of Maryland Thurgood Marshall Law Library. Searchable by date, subject, and geographic region.

Created by PBS, this website offers information about the end of institutionalized slavery in America and the development of the Jim Crow laws. Includes interactive timelines and maps, as well as tools and activities for teachers.

From Columbia University.
Has image, video, audio and document archives, plus much more.

Frederick, MD : University Publications of America, 1987, c1986.
LAU Microforms Mfilm 811 (Cabinet 107-108)

Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, c1984.
LAU Microforms Mfilm 683 (Cabinet 102).

The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi.

Crossroads to Freedom connects the world with Memphis history through an archive of documents, newspapers, images and oral histories. Our goal is to empower Memphians to tell the stories of our city and region as a vital aspect of participation in the future of our community.

Part of the American Experience series developed by PBS, this site provides extensive information about the civil rights activists who rode interstate buses from May until November 1961 in order to challenge segregation in America. Includes full episode and biographies of individuals involved.

External Web Sites (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress). MORE websites!

From the The Archive of The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992-5 v. ; 28 cm.
LAU Stacks E185.97.K5 A2 1992

The University of Rochester Libraries has created this fine online project to bring together organizational papers, images, oral histories, and ephemera related to Rochester's black freedom experience in the 1960s and 1970s. Visitors can click on the "Oral Histories" area to look over and listen to snippets from some of the interviews conducted in 2008, including talks with police officers, businessman, and local religious leaders.

The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project is based at the University of Washington.

University of Virginia Library. Virginia Center for Digital History. “An archive containing film footage from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia. Included are clips of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, the governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as segments documenting school desegregation, public meetings, local debates over civil rights matters, and interviews with citizens.”