Recommended Resources—Civil Rights
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Last updated, June 30, 2007

Below is a fairly eccletic list of websites that refer you to sources dealing with the historical and current struggle for civil rights and freedom.

HISTORY

Civil Rights Movement Veterans Veterans Roll Call; In Memory; The Movement and Timeline; Our Stories; Frequently Asked Questions; Documents; Commentaries; Poetry; Speakers List; Guestbook; Links; and Movement Bibliography.

McComb, USA The McComb Freedom School Play

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Inspired by our civil rights past, our mission is to encourage communication and reconciliation of human rights issues worldwide, and to serve as a depository for civil rights archives and documents.

Library at the University of Southern Mississippi has a wealth of information in the digital archives including photographs and diaries of veterans of Freedom Summer. Go to Digital Archives in Special Collections, then to Digital Media Archive then to Hyperion Hierarchy to get to the index of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive.

White House Tapes Transcripts of Lyndon Johnson’s phone conversations regarding events during the Freedom Summer

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching provides lessons and articles for K-12 educators on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement.

CURRENT EFFORTS

World of Opportunity School The World of Opportunity (WOO) opened its doors after the Birmingham City Schools pushed out 522 students in an apparent attempt to raise test scores. Steve Orel, WOO Coordinator, told the story at Interversity's first online conference, Roots of Resistance, in September, 2000. His account, 522 students pushed out of school in Birmingham, Alabama, tells how his objections to the district's actions cost him his job and how the WOO was born.

Rouge Forum The Rouge Forum is a group of educators, students, and parents seeking a democratic society. We are concerned about questions like these: How can we teach against racism, national chauvinism and sexism in an increasingly authoritarian and undemocratic society? How can we gain enough real power to keep our ideals and still teach--or learn? Whose interests shall school serve in a society that is ever more unequal? We are both research and action oriented.

The ERASE Initiative The ERASE Initiative is a national program that challenges racism in public schools and promotes racial justice and academic excellence for all students.

The Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership The Boggs Center is a non-profit community organization based on the Eastside of Detroit. Founded in 1995 by friends and associates of James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs, the Center seeks to honor and continue their legacy as Movement activists and theoreticians.

Making Changes Freedom SchoolThis Freedom School in San Pablo, CA was created as a place where students can come together and develop critical thinking skills while they challenge the system and learn to survive in the 'real' world. The Making Changes Center is a completely, volunteer-run, grassroots movement of parents, students, community activists and concerned teachers that want to change our reality and create positive changes in the world.

Center for Anti-Oppressive Education (CAOE) Through its projects on research, curriculum, professional development, and local advocacy, CAOE develops and provides innovative resources for educators, leaders, students, and advocates who are interested in creating and engaging in anti-oppressive forms of education.

New York Collective of Radical Educators NYCoRE is a group of public school educators committed to fighting for social justice in our school system and society at large, by organizing and mobilizing teachers, developing curriculum, and working with community, parent, and student organizations. We are educators who believe that education is an integral part of social change and that we must work both inside and outside the classroom because the struggle for justice does not end when the school bell rings.

Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI) seeks to promote social change by increasing the recognition and use of existing human rights and peace law at the local, national, and international levels.

Discrimination Research Center The Discrimination Research Center (DRC)—launched in 1998 by The Impact Fund—is a nonprofit organization that combines research, advocacy, and public education to uncover and dismantle discrimination in different settings.