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Content Resources

Teachers' Domain: Civil Rights
http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/civil/
Using archival news footage, primary sources, and interview segments filmed for Eyes on the Prize, this collection captures the voices, images, and events of the Civil Rights Movement and the ongoing struggle for racial equality in America. The collection includes lesson plans, video and audio clips, an interactive timeline, and handouts. You will need to set up a free registration for Teachers' Domain to use these resources.

A Biography of America: The Sixties
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog24/index.html
On this site, you can view the Biography of America video (or read the transcript) for Program 24: The Sixties, which includes a focus on the Civil Rights Movement. You can also access maps, listings of key events, and Web links on this topic.

American Experience: Eyes on the Prize
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/
On this companion site to the American Experience documentary Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985, you can explore media, primary sources, profiles of people and organizations, milestone events, reflections of movement veterans and others, and a teacher's guide.

Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
http://americanhistory.si.edu/Brown/index.html
On this companion site to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History special exhibition, Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education, you will find historical background and reflections on the decision, and additional resources for teachers and students.

Best of History Web Sites: Civil Rights movement
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_CivilRights.shtml
This site provides an extensive annotated list of links related to the Civil Rights Movement.

Digital History: Civil Rights
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/resource_guides/content.cfm?tpc=29
This site includes readings, primary sources, audio and visual materials, and resources for teachers related to civil rights.

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: Online Resource Gallery
http://www.bcri.org/resource_gallery/interview_segments/ index.htm
On this site, you will find a series of interviews collected by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Oral History Project that focus on the experiences of local movement participants, particularly in relation to Birmingham's labor history.

Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/
This site focuses on the Civil Rights Movement in the Pacific Northwest and features oral histories, images, documents, and personal biographies.

Landmark Supreme Court Cases
http://www.landmarkcases.org/
This site provides an in-depth look at key Supreme Court cases, including Brown v. Board of Education and Plessy v. Ferguson, and features activities, excerpts from the opinions, diagrams, historical essays, and more.

Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education - A Teacher's Resource Guide
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/educ/brown/resources.htm
This guide provides a narrative on the court case Brown v. Board of Education along with a breakdown of study areas on the topic, relevant discussion questions, and an extensive list of print, video, and Web sources on the topic.

Strategy Resources

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.html
This companion site to the PBS series The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow includes a collection of oral histories from people who lived in the time of Jim Crow (see Jim Crow Stories) and many resources for teachers (see For Teachers), which includes a guide to developing student oral history projects and an extensive collection of annotated oral history links.

Teacher Lesson Plan: Using Oral History
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html
On this Learning Page from the Library of Congress, you will find a lesson plan that uses oral history audio clips to look at social history in America from 1936-1940.

42Explore: Oral History
http://www.42explore2.com/oralhst.htm
This site features six oral history activities and provides an annotated list of links devoted to oral history projects and teacher resources.

DoHistory: Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History
http://www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html
This site provides a step-by-step guide to collecting oral histories.

Rutgers Oral History Archives
http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/Interviews/indexes/conflictindex.html
This site features in-depth interviews with individuals who served on the home front and overseas during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War.

History Matters: Making Sense of Oral History
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/
This extensive article includes an overview of oral history, what questions to ask and resources to use when collecting an oral history, and resources to use. It also includes a series of interactive activities that feature sample oral histories.

American Century Project
http://www.doingoralhistory.org/
This site contains extensive instructions and materials for teachers and students about doing oral histories. It also includes an archive of oral histories on a variety of topics in American history, online workshops, and additional resources.

Documenting the American South: Oral History of the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/
Here you will find 500 oral history interviews on topics related to the American South, including civil rights, environmental transformations, Southern women, and Southern politics.