(USIA) CHAPTER 11B: POSTWAR AMERICA
    Origins of the Civil Rights Movement -- Desegregation

Civil rights links
      An interesting collection from the Urah Education Network

Civil rights photos
     A great collection of photos from the archives of the Birmingham News
      (pdf version)

The Progress of a People
     African-American history and culture from the early 19th through the early 20th
centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900.

African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
    Black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the20th century.

Time archives/Civil Rights
    Follow the progress of America's march toward racial equality with these highlights from TIME's coverage over the years.

Murder in Mississippi
      Time's coverage of three young civil rights workers in 1964 in a case made famous by the film Mississippi Burning.

With quiet grace, two black men change the heart of Harvard in 1941
     Every great institution has its moments of shame and its moments of honor. For Harvard, in the spring of 1941, those moments were nearly one and the same, when two young black men unwittingly forced those around them to examine the meaning of loyalty and it put America's oldest, most prestigious university on public trial as it chose between conscience and accommodation, courage and collusion. That spring, a Harvard more hesitant than heroic put itself in the forefront of  the civil rights movement.

Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson
    When he stepped onto Ebbets field on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American in the 20th century to play baseball in the major leagues.

"I have a dream ..."
    Hear Martin Luther King's speech at the march on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963

Criminal Justice after O.J.
    Attorney Alan Dershowitz uses examples from the Simpson case in discussing America's criminal justice system

Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans
    Selected portraits from the 1920s  in the Harmon Foundation Collection

The Disability Rights Movement
    Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act

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