Primary Source Spotlight: Civil Rights
Civil rights primary source collections
- Collection Spotlight: Civil Rights History Project
- Presidential Spotlight: Lyndon B. Johnson
- Primary Source Spotlight: NAACP
- Primary Source Spotlight: Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Selma Marches
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- Freedom story map
- Civil rights books, reports & other texts
- Select civil rights primary sources
- Civil Rights: Before, During and After the World Wars primary source set
- Civil rights era select images
- Selected civil rights images by Danny Lyon, first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Civil rights image set
- Images of 20th Century African American Activists
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) primary source set
- Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination
- Before & After ’68: The Poor People’s Campaign, Then & Now participants in the Poor People’s Campaigns of 1968 and 2018 — scholars, cultural workers and documentarians — discuss Martin Luther King Jr.’s original mass action for human rights and justice on it’s 50th anniversary and its contemporary counterpart
Civil rights activists primary source collections
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- John Lewis
- Thurgood Marshall
- Rosa Parks
- A. Philip Randolph
- Jackie Robinson
- Bayard Rustin
- Little Rock Nine
- NAACP
Online exhibitions
- African American Odyssey: Civil Rights era
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964
- A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
- Freedom: The African American Struggle for Rights and Justice in Words and Images story map
- The NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
- Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words
- Voices of Civil Rights
- With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty
Library civil rights blog posts
- African-American History Month: The Struggle for Civil Rights Past, Present and Future Library of Congress Blog February 5, 2019
- Bringing the Church into the World: The Civil Rights Struggle & the Student Interracial Ministry Folklife Today March 8, 2017
- Marching In Montgomery, 1965, Reconsidered Folklife Today blog March 30, 2015
- Medgar Evers’ Role in Civil Rights Law In Custodia Legis July 2, 2021
- People Who Stood: Mississippi Women in the Civil Rights Movement Folklife Today June 4, 2017
- The Terrain of Freedom: Mapping Stories about People and Places in the African American Struggle for Justice, Rights, and Equality Folklife Today December 4, 2019
National History Day Topic Ideas
- NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Civil Rights
- NHD 2015: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Women and Civil Rights
Primary Source Learning: Civil Rights teaching resources