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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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| Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement | | Presents audio clips, a photograph of young Black men sitting at "that whites-only lunch counter at the Woolworth Store on South Elm Street," a timeline, and news articles, including one about the statue honoring the occasion the Web site unveiled in February, 2002.
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http://www.sitins.com/
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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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| Brown@50: Fulfilling the Promise | | Howard University School of Law's page for "the celebration and commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954)." Features a chronology of slavery, segregation, and civil rights in the United States; court decisions; and links to civil rights resources. Also provides information about events and conferences (2003-2004) related to the anniversary.
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http://www.brownat50.org/
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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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| Conscience and the Constitution | | Explores how 63 Japanese-Americans in 1944 "stood trial for resisting the draft at the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming." Contains profiles of the resisters, a timeline of events, information on the trial and ostracism by the Japanese-American community, the role of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) and spokesman Mike Masaoka, and the Fair Play Committee. Includes related documents, audio, video, and lesson plans. Online companion to PBS documentary of same title.
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http://www.pbs.org/itvs/conscience/
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| Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights | | This site provides full-text historical reports of the commission "responsible for monitoring the civil rights activities at federal agencies. It is through monitoring that it can be assured that proper enforcement is taking place and the promise of civil rights is fulfilled." Users can browse the Web site by title, subject, date of publication, and Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) number. From the Thurgood Marshall Law Library of the University of Maryland School of Law.
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http://www.law.umaryland.edu/edocs/usccr/html%20files/usccrhp.asp
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| Hot Topics: USA Patriot Act | | Provides "information about the USA PATRIOT Act, intellectual freedom, civil rights and social justice." The Web sites listed in this directory "provide access to the USA Patriot Act text and offer a variety of resources for education, government information and activism." From librarians Carlos A. Diaz, Carrie Lybecker, and Liza Rognas of Evergreen State College, Washington state.
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http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/hotopics/usapatriotact/
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| Liberty in the Balance: Security Collides with Civil Liberties | | This four-part series ran in September 2003 in the Sacramento Bee "and examines how the crackdown on terrorism has come into conflict with the civil liberties that set America apart." A good introduction to post-9/11 issues related to intellectual freedom, including the Patriot Act. Includes discussion of the role of librarians in defending free speech in an open society and survey results indicating that federal agents have stepped up formal and informal library enquiries.
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http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/projects/liberty/
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| A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution | | "This exhibit explores this period when racial prejudice and fear upset the delicate balance between the rights of the citizen and the power of the state." It discusses Japanese immigration to the United States, the relocation of Japanese Americans to camps during World War II, their loyalty and military service, and their post-war struggle for justice. From the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
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http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/
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| NAACP.ORG | | The Web presence of America's oldest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, contains links to its magazine The Crisis, a timeline of its long history, important news bulletins, and information about the NAACP's community assistance programs.
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http://www.naacp.org/
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| NOW with Bill Moyers: Chuck Lewis on a New Patriot Act | | Transcripts of a February, 2003 television interview with Chuck Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, about the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, also known as "Patriot Act II," which some consider "a sweeping expansion of the government's police powers." Includes a response from the Department of Justice, a later interview with civil libertarian Nat Hentoff, a timeline, and related links. From the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series "Now with Bill Moyers."
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http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/lewis.html
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| People for the American Way | | This 20-year-old organization is "fighting to maintain and expand 50 years of legal and social justice progress that right-wing leaders are trying to dismantle." Read about its history; see where it stands on such issues as public education, religious freedom, and civil liberties; search by state to find current highlighted issues and activities. lii.org Record of the Month, October 2002.
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http://www.pfaw.org/
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| Racial Profiling Data Collection Resource Center at Northeastern University | | "Racial profiling data collection is tracking the race, ethnicity, and gender of those who are stopped and/or searched by the police." This information clearinghouse, designed for use by a variety of audiences, has extensive resources for understanding, interpreting, and reporting data collection. Includes information about the racial profiling controversy, jurisdictions currently gathering data, community and civil rights groups, legislation, and other related topics. From the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University.
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http://www.racialprofilinganalysis.neu.edu/
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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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| Southern Poverty Law Center | | This organization combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation. Includes Klanwatch and Militia Task Force, which monitor white supremacist and extremist activity, Legal Action, current and historical civil rights cases, and Teaching Tolerance, excerpts from this free to educators magazine, including an excellent, annotated, Recommended Reading list.
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http://www.splcenter.org/
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| U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: Civil Rights Act of 1964: 40th Anniversary | | Facts and statistics compiled in honor of the signing of the "landmark law [that] prohibits racial discrimination in public accommodations, publicly owned or operated facilities, employment and union membership, and voter registration." Compares data from 1964 and 2002 in areas such as black elected officials, college students and graduates, and income and poverty. Includes audio files.
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http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_edit...
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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/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html
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| Remembering Jim Crow | | This site is the companion to an American RadioWorks documentary about Jim Crow segregation in which "for much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from many of the rights they deserved as American citizens." The site features excerpts from interviews, sample Jim Crow laws, a bibliography, and links to related sites.
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http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/
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| Separate Lives, Broken Dreams | | A site about the Chinese Exclusion Act, which until its repeal in 1943 "barred all Chinese from U.S. citizenship by naturalization." Users can view immigration documents and photographs, Chinese exclusion literature such as speeches and satirical cartoons, a glossary of terms, government documents, information on researching family records, a bibliography, and related links. Each section includes commentary from scholars and historians. From the National Asian American Telecommunications Association.
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http://www.naatanet.org/separatelivesbrokendreams/
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| Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement | | Presents audio clips, a photograph of young Black men sitting at "that whites-only lunch counter at the Woolworth Store on South Elm Street," a timeline, and news articles, including one about the statue honoring the occasion the Web site unveiled in February, 2002.
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http://www.sitins.com/
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| The History of Jim Crow | | "An educator's site that presents teachers with new historical resources and teaching ideas on one of the most shameful periods in American history." The material includes essays, personal narratives, lesson plans, photographs and historical images, and maps and geographical perspectives on segregation in the United States from the 1870s through the 1950s. "Content was generated by a national collaboration of classroom teachers, working with professional historians."
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http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/
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| The African American Journey | | "The articles in this feature were taken from the World Book. There are also numerous links to World Wide Web sites concerning important figures and events in black history, as well as issues surrounding current events." Covers the slave trade, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the civil rights movement and provides a short history of Black History Month.
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http://www2.worldbook.com/features/aajourney_new/intro.shtml
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| Crosspoint Anti Racism | | An international, searchable collection of briefly annotated links covering such topics as anti-racism/anti-fascism, migrants, anti-Semitism/Shoah, migrants/diversity, indigenous people, Jewish resources/Shoah, human rights/refugees, disability resources, Roma/Sinti/Travellers, gays and lesbians, and women's rights. Users can browse the site by country or by topic. The annotations are provided in English, Spanish, German, French, or other language depending upon the country of origin.
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http://www.magenta.nl/crosspoint/
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| Diversity Bibliography | | An annotated bibliography of online and print resources about diversity. Compiled for journalists by the Poynter Institute.
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http://poynteronline.org/content/content_view.asp?id=1187
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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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| EEOC Home Page | | The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an independent federal government agency, posts its laws, rules, guidelines, fact sheets, and press releases here.
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| Building Blocks for Youth | | Informative site on issues relating to juvenile crime and justice. Building Blocks for Youth is a group of children's advocates, law enforcement officials, and others dedicated to protecting and advocating for minority youths involved in the justice system. Topics include youths in the adult criminal justice system, race issues, "get tough" on juveniles legislation, juvenile courts, and the dangers of incarcerating juveniles with adult offenders. The Web site offers an online newsletter, reports, fact sheets, and news articles and links.
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http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/
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| Employment Discrimination: An Overview | | This site provides a comprehensive overview of employment discrimination laws, as well as links to federal and state statutes, federal agency regulations, federal and state judicial decisions, and other employment law topics. Part of the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School.
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http://wwwsecure.law.cornell.edu/topics/employment_discrimination.html
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| Glass Ceiling Commission | | Works to identify barriers and expand practices and policies that promote employment opportunities for the advancement of minorities and women into positions of responsibility in the private sector. Site contains studies and reports.
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http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/keyWorkplaceDocuments/government/federal/Glassceilingr...
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| Understanding Prejudice | | This supplement to the print anthology Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination offers" more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources, as well as searchable databases with hundreds of prejudice researchers and social justice organizations." The Reading Room section has bibliographies on sexism, anti-Semitism, genocide, and many other prejudice-related topics. A searchable experts directory includes listings for more than 200 media contacts, career mentors, and social scientists.
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http://www.understandingprejudice.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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| National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) | | This organization proposes to "identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and their families." The Web site offers facts, statistics, reports, news, analyses, and policy recommendations. Users can view issues of the Child Poverty News & Issues and other publications online. From Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
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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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