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Newly found pictures of MLK 4/4/68
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MALCOLM X (1925-1965)
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TIMELINE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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• The King Center in Atlanta
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• Malcolm site with video.
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• Another good timeline
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• Time Magazine article on MLK
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• Malcolm X 1965 CBC show
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• PBS timeline of Civil Rights Movement.
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• MLK timeline by students for students.
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• Malcolm X quotes
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• Excellent timeline.
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• History of Martin Luther King Day
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• Assassination of Malcolm X (Feb. 21, 1965)
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• Map of the Civil Rights Movement
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• MLK Quiz
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• PBS site on Malcolm X
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Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956)
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• VIDEO: "I Have a Dream" speech, 8/28/1963
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• Hear Malcolm's "Ballot or the Bullet" speech.
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Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated; President Eisenhower sends in troops.
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• Read the actual FBI files on MLK
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• Read the actual FBI files on Malcolm X
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• BBC site on the Little Rock Crisis of 1957
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• MLK timeline from Long Island University.
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MEDGAR EVERS (1925-1963), Civil Rights Leader in Mississippi, assassinated in 1963.
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Reporting Civil Rights, the news reporters who covered these events, with timeline.
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• MLK timeline from Seattle Times
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• Site on Evers from Arlington National Cemetery, where he is buried.
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• MLK documentary from PBS.
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• Medgar Evers biography.
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BBC site on the assassination of Malcolm X
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• Martin Luther King, Jr. slideshow
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• Hear the National Public Radio (NPR) program on Evers.
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CNN - THE ROAD TO EQUALITY
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• MLK slideshow from USA Today newspaper.
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The stabbing of Martin Luther King, Jr. on 9/30/1958 during a booksigning in Harlem, New York City.
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TIME - UNSUNG HEROES OF BLACK HISTORY
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ALBERTA WILLIAMS KING (1904-1974), Mother of MLK who was also shot, on June 30, 1974 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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HISTORIC PLACES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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• 1973 FBI Files on NOI Leader Elijah Muhammad
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Assassination of Dr. King (April 4, 1968)
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1960: GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA SIT-INS
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GREENSBORO MASSACRE: 5 members of the Communist Workers Party gunned down by the KKK on 11/3/1979
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• VIDEO: The actual news report from the night Dr. King was assassinated (4/4/1968)
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• Timeline of Greensboro, NC sit-ins.
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• Greensboro Justice Fund
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• Actual New York Times article on the assassination.
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• PBS Documentary on the Greensboro Sit-Ins
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CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIAL
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• AUDIO report on the King assassination.
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• The lunch counter from the Sit-In, now in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
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• 40 of the martyrs who gave their lives for Civil Rights (1954-1968)
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• AUDIO of Senator Robert F. Kennedy announcing the death of MLK to a crowd in Indianapolis, Indiana on 4/4/1968.
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1961: THE FREEDOM RIDERS - Activists seeking to desegregate interstate buses, rode them into the South and were met with violence.
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• PBS report on James Earl Ray (1928-1998), the convicted assassin of Dr. King.
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• Map of the Freedom Riders
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• More VIDEO from April 4, 1968 CBS Newscast
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• Newspaper articles and photos of the Freedom Riders, 1961.
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• After the assassination, anger and frustration spilled out into the streets of over 100 cities across the U.S. in devastating riots and violence.
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• Listen to this NPR story on the Freedom Riders.
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CORETTA SCOTT KING (1927-2006), wife of MLK and Civil Rights Activist.
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1962: JAMES MEREDITH (1933-) becomes the first African-American to attend the previously all-white University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)
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EYES ON THE PRIZE - watch this excellent documentary about the Civil Rights Movement.
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1968, MEMPHIS: Dr. King's final journey: The Memphis Sanitation Strike
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• Story of Meredith from the JFK Library
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Excellent Civil Rights Videos
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• Listen to the AUDIO and read the last speech MLK ever gave, April 3, 1968
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• James Meredith is shot on June 6, 1966 during his one-man march through Mississippi. He recovers soon after.
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• Timeline of the Memphis Sanitation Strike
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1963: Governor George Wallace (1919-1998) of Alabama tries to block two African-Americans from entering the University of Alabama.
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• Photos of the Memphis Strike in 1968
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• JFK speech the night of June 11, 1963 after University of Alabama was desegregated.
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• About the Memphis Sanitation Strike from the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.
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1963: 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH IS BOMBED IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA (9/16/63).
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• Gallery of Memphis, 1968
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• NPR program on the bombing.
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MLK VIDEO: I've Been To The Mountaintop Speech
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• Excellent site on the bombing.
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• MLK AUDIO: Dr. King on Vietnam (4/4/1967)
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MARCH ON WASHINGTON (8/28/1963)
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• AUDIO: Jesse Jackson at the Democratic National Convention in 1988
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• More on the historic March.
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• AUDIO: Student Activist Mario Savio (1942-1996) - speech on freedom of speech.
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1964: FREEDOM SUMMER - a massive campaign to help register blacks to vote in Mississippi. On June 21, 1964 three civil rights workers are killed, drawing the attention of the nation.
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1966: THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY IS FORMED advocated black nationalism and armed self-defense.
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• AUDIO: Stokely Carmichael - "Black Power" October, 1966
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• The story of the three murdered civil rights workers, Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman.
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• Black Panther Party
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• Eleanor Roosevelt Speech on Human Rights, 1948
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• The trial of the men accused of killing the civil rights workers
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1966: CHICAGO FREEDOM MOVEMENT: Dr. King brings his movement north to Chicago, Illinois - with mixed results.
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• Finally, in 2005 the first conviction in the Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney case was achieved. Edgar Ray Killen was convicted.
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1967: RIOTS IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN AND NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
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1964: CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. Just weeks after the Freedom Summer killings, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after The House passed the bill by 289-126, and the Senate passed it 73-27. Read LBJ's speech to the nation, July 2, 1964.
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• Detroit riots of 1967
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• Major features of the Civil Rights Act.
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• More on the Newark riots of 1967
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1965: Viola Liuzzo, a white northern woman is killed by the KKK for trying to help the civil rights movement.
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1967: Dr. King denounces American involvement in the Vietnam War - Listen to the speech, April 4, 1967
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• More on Ms. Liuzzo
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• Dr. King and the Vietnam War
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1965: March 7, March 9 and March 25: SELMA to MONTGOMERY MARCH.
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1968: A Year in Turmoil
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• Photos of the march from Selma.
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• 1968: Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a strong supporter of Civil Rights is assassinated on June 5, 1968 while running for President.
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• Photos and Videos of the three marches, March 7, 1965, March 9 and March 25, 1965.
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1972: The National Black Political Convention
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• The first march, known as "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965
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1974: SOUTH BOSTON INTEGRATION OF SCHOOLS IS MET WITH VIOLENCE
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• 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, March 7, 2005, from NPR.
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• Video of 1974 busing crisis.
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1965: VOTING RIGHTS ACT PASSED
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• 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act from MSNBC News.
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1965: WATTS RIOTS, California, August 11 - August 16
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• Timeline of Watts Riots
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GAMES - MLK Crossword
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