Pioneer of Civil Rights “The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest.” Rosa Parks			Civil Rights Pathfinder Maine West High School Library Resource Center Created by G. Haan, librarian Updated by L. Ryan, librarian On February 19, 2008
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Books Search for books using the Online Catalog. Suggested words and phrases to use: Chicago history (for A Raisin in the Sun “Act 4 ” project) civil rights workers civil rights blacks Afro-American equality United States segregation United States Minorities United States United States race relations Some selected titles: CHI 933.311 SPINNEY 2000 City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago Top 305.891 REMEMBERING 2001 Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South 323.1 FINLAYSON 2003 We Shall Overcome: The History of the American Civil Rights Movement 779.092 DAVIDSON 2002 Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965 909.825 Books about the 1950’s 909.826 Books about the 1960’s R 323.1196 GREENWOOD V.1 2003 The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights. Volume I, A-R : from emancipation to the 21st century R 909.82 UXL UXL American Decades. 1950-1959 also 1960-1969 R 973.004 INT 1978 International Library of Afro-American Life and History R 973.0496 1998 The Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage Top
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Web Sites Civil Rights Act of 1964 - compares white & African-American people's life before civil rights.Explains how President Kennedy's death impacted the civil rights movement. Civil Rights Era from the Library of Congress Civil Rights Movement from the American Library Association Civil Rights Movement from CNN Civil Rights Movement from Eastern Connecticut State University Civil Rights Movement ‘60s from the University of Virginia Freedom Rides Top A Brief History of the Freedom Riders Greensboro Sit-ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement Get Schooled on Civil Rights at Little Rock Central High School Rock: “Central High shoulders a legacy as the nation's first major battleground for school desegregation after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that black children were entitled the same education as whites. For three weeks in September 1957, Gov. Orval E. Faubus blocked nine black students from enrolling at all-white Central…“ Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks Pictures of the Civil Rights Movement by Kodak Picture Credit Academy of Achievement, “Rosa Parks”. 2006. 16 Feb. 2006. <http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0gal-1>. Top
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