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| Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement | | Information on Martin Luther King, Jr. including a biography, text of speeches and writings, some audio features, photographs, and a timeline of Dr. King's life and the civil rights movement. Also provides study guides, a quiz, and resource links, as well as reflections from others and an article about the holiday in his honor.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/
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| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University | | "The King Papers Project is a major research effort to assemble and disseminate historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated." This site features papers, speeches, sermons, a biography, an excerpt from his autobiography, a chronology, and articles. Includes related links.
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
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| SNCC 1960-1966: Six Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | | Covers the first six years of the organization's history, presenting its stand and activities on nonviolence, the Vietnam War, white liberalism, feminism, and Black Power. In addition, this site features profiles of prominent members John Lewis, Julian Bond, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, Ella Baker, and Stokeley Carmichael along with information on events (sit-ins, Freedom Rides, the Freedom Ballot, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the 1963 March on Washington). Includes a timeline and sound files.
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http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/
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| American Indian Movement (AIM) | | Provides an overview of the American Indian civil rights group that formed in 1968 to speak out against discrimination, treaty rights, reclamation of tribal land, poverty, and related issues. Discusses events in the history of the group, including the protest and confrontation in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973. Includes a bibliography. From the Minnesota Historical Society.
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http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/93aim.html
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| Civil Rights Oral History Interviews | | This site consists of a series of interviews with people who have "ties to both the civil rights movement and to Spokane [Washington state]." Conducted by a reporter for the Spokesman-Review, the interviews served as the base for "Through Spokane's Eyes: Moments in Black History," a series of articles published in February 2001. The site includes photographs, brief descriptions of the topics covered, and audio files of the interviews. Searchable. From Washington State University.
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http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xcivilrights.html
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| Re: Indigenous People's Opposition to Celebration and Glorification of Colonial Pirate Ch...
| | This site contains a 2000 press release from the American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council opposing the celebration of Columbus Day on the claimed basis that "Columbus was the beginning of the American holocaust, ethnic cleansing characterized by murder, torture, raping, pillaging, robbery, slavery, kidnapping, and forced removals of Indian people from their homelands."
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http://www.aimovement.org/moipr/columbus-oct00.html
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| W.E.B. Du Bois Papers, 1803 (1877-1963) 1999 | | This site features a biographical essay and chronology of the scholar, author, sociologist, co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and editor of The Crisis and other journals. Also contains a description of the W.E.B. Du Bois Papers collection and an exhibit of materials from the collection. From the University of Massachusetts Libraries.
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http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/manuscripts/dubois_papers/dubois.html
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| The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1850-1950 | | An overview of "anti-Black violence from the 1880s to the 1950s," including information on lynchings, race riots, and the response of the African-American community. It also offers a curriculum unit by Robert A. Gibson for the Yale-New Haven (Connecticut) Teachers Institute. Includes bibliography. (Note: portions of the site incorrectly note the date range as "1980-1950.")
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/guides/1979/2/7902.04.x.html
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| Diversity Timeline | | The timeline presents "an overview of segregation and integration, [and] cultural and gender diversity in American history, from the 1600s through [1996]." Part of the PBS series on firefighting, "Test of Courage."
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http://www.pbs.org/testofcourage/diversity4.html
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| Ethnomed: Ethnic Medicine Information from Harborview Medical Center | | EthnoMed seeks to "make information about culture, language, health, illness, and community resources directly accessible to health care providers" of recent immigrants. This searchable clinical resource provides culture-specific pages, journal articles, immigration issues, and links related to public health, patient education, and cross-cultural information. From the University of Washington Health Sciences Library and the Harborview Medical Center's Community House Calls Program in Seattle.
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http://www.ethnomed.org/
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| American Indian Health | | This Web site blends "health and medical resources pertinent to the American Indian population including policies, consumer health information, and research. Links are provided to an assortment of documents, Web sites, databases and other resources." Searchable and browsable. From the National Library of Medicine.
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http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/
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| DiversityRx | | Policy makers, health care providers, and consumers can access a wealth of information on serving diverse communities here. This site explains how language and culture affect the delivery of health care to various ethnic groups. It includes information on best practices, standards for medical interpreters, legal and policy issues, news, and links to sites dealing with cross-cultural and minority health care.
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http://www.diversityrx.org/
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| American Indian Reservations and Trust Areas | | "A compendium of information about the economic infrastructure of these areas. The material is arranged geographically and is presented in small files based on location." Information includes size of territory, government, community facilities, and brief statistics about employment and labor force. About half the United States are represented. From the U.S. Economic Development Agency (EDA).
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http://www.eda.gov/xp/EDAPublic/Research/AmerIndianRes.xml
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