Class: U.S. History
Assignment: Civil Rights Yesterday and Today
General Information:
Best of History Web Sites
Links to web sites concerning Civil Rights, including:
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
Justice Learning: Race & Education Lesson Plans
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_CivilRights.shtml
Landmark Civil Rights Legislation
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/society/legislat.htm
Congressional Research Service Reports
CRS is the public policy research arm of Congress. This site aims to provide integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available at a variety of different Web sites since 1990.
http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/browse/
Columbus Academy – Subscription Databases
For periodical articles use: EBSCO and eLibrary
For background information use: Student Resource Center and Opposing Viewpoints
http://library.columbusacademy.org/resources.html
Facts for features- Civil Rights 40th Anniversary
To mark the anniversary, the Census Bureau has culled statistics from its reports that depict the progress African-Americans have made since 1964
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/001800.html
US Census Bureau – Minority Statistics
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hotlinks.html
Equality In Education
School Desegregation and equal educational opportunity
http://www.civilrights.org/research_center/civilrights101/desegregation.html
Brown vs. Brown summary
http://brownvboard.org/summary/
Supreme Court Collection
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0347_0483_ZS.html
Legacy of Brown - NPR
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/brown50/
Brown at 50
Includes chronology
http://brownat50.org/
Impact of the Civil Rights Laws – Education (Racial, Gender, Age, Disability)
Education-Office of Civil Rights
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/impact.html
Title IX: 25 Years of Progress
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/TitleIX/index.html
Educational Attainment in the United States 1940 to 2000
US Census
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education/introphct41.html
Equal Justice
Criminal Justice - Civil rights.org
Scan down site for "Fact Sheet" and other "Topics"
http://www.civilrights.org/issues/cj/
The Murder of Emmitt Till
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/
Furman v. Georgia
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/131/
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Scan down for Civil Rights 1990-2000
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pubalp2.htm#crcusdc
Equality in the Workplace (and in Higher Education) / Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action Timeline
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/affirmativetimeline1.html
Congressional Research Service Reports – Affirmative Action
http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/search.tkl?q=affirmative+action&search_crit=subject&search=Search&date1=Anytime&date2=Anytime&type=form
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the equal employment Opportunity Commission
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/civil-rights-act/
Employment Discrimination – Scan down for “Overview”
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Employment_discrimination
Federal Discrimination Law 2005
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/legal/fed_discrimination_law_05
2006 supplement
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/legal/fed_discrimination_law_05/supplement_200601.html
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
http://www.eeoc.gov/
Update on Affirmative Action in Higher Education
http://www.aaup.org/Issues/AffirmativeAction/aalegal.htm
US Census Bureau - Population and Household Data
http://www.census.gov/population/www/index.html
Equality in Politics and Government
Freedom summer
http://www.core-online.org/history/freedom_summer.htm
Introduction to Federal Voting Rights Laws
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro.htm
ACLU Voting Rights Project
http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/index.html
Voting Rights Act of 1965
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100
Women’s Rights / Liberation
Timeline of Women’s Rights Movement in the U.S.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html
National Organization For Women
http://www.now.org/
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Includes Gender Wage Ratio
http://www.iwpr.org/
A Timeline of Supreme Court Decisions Protecting Privacy Rights
Check additional links on left side
http://www.reproductiverights.org/crt_roe_timeline.html
Gay Rights
Gay Rights Fact File - includes history, overview; explore additional links on the left side of site
http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/factfiles.cfm?issue_type=gay_rights
Stonewall and beyond - includes primary sources
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/sw25/case1.html
National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce
http://thetaskforce.org/issues
Same-Sex marriage resolution
http://votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?vote_id=3841
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