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ENGLISH - 8th Grade (To Kill A Mockingbird): Civil Rights

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Civil Rights Movement

CIVIL RIGHTS: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a decades-long struggle by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end institutionalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the United States.  

        CARTOON: CIVIL RIGHTS 1953. - 'As American Goes, So Goes the World.'

American cartoon by D.R. Fitzpatrick, 1953, on the emphasis in President Eisenhower's inauguration speech on the importance of preserving freedom at home as well as abroad.

Civil Rights

Images

MISSISSIPPI: SIT-IN; 1963. J.L. Ray; deputy police chief of Jackson; Mississippi; escorts four African American women; arrested for attempting to sit-in at a downtown cafe; May 1963.

Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 31 Aug 2017.
quest.eb.com/search/140_1810140/1/140_1810140/cite. Accessed 8 Feb 2021.

Civil Rights March - Crowds petition for civil rights at the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles.

Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/139_1898801/1/139_1898801/cite. Accessed 8 Feb 2021.

GREENSBORO SIT-IN, 1960. - Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Billy Smith, and Clarence Henderson wait for service on the second day of their sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's, Greensboro, North Carolina, February 2, 1960.

Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/140_1678268/1/140_1678268/cite. Accessed 8 Feb 2021.

Benedict Library DataBase Resources

Civil Rghts Movement

Encyclopædia Britannica, 31 Aug. 2020

Civil Rights Movement

Ellicott, Karen and Timothy Gall, eds. “Civil Rights Movement.” American History Online, Lincoln Library Press, 2018. FactCite, https://www.factcite.com/useh/4000597.html. Accessed 20 Oct. 2022.

African Americans Fight for Civil Rights

Hillstrom, Laurie Collier. “African Americans Fight for Civil Rights.” Defining Moments Online, Lincoln Library Press, 2015. FactCite, https://www.factcite.com/definingmoments/33021.html. Accessed 20 Oct. 2022.

Civil Rights Movement

Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, edited by Thomas Carson and Mary Bonk, Gale, 1999

Benedict Library Resources

NEWSELA Collection

Birth of the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1954

Integration of Central High School

Organizations of the civil rights movement

Additional Web Resources