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The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore - Powerful Days
(Charles Moore was one of the unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. Without the publishing of his dramatic photographs in Life Magazine, and the work of other photojournalists, the public perhaps would not have been galvanized into action against the atrocities of segregation.)

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd. Photo taken on 08/28/1963.

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• Civil Rights: A Status Report - Discusses the relevancy of the movement, and its effect on the population.
• Civil Rights Oral History - A bibliography of interviews about the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
• Greensboro Sit Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement - A multimedia site presented by the Depot, the News and Record, and the Greensboro Public Library.
• Harry T. Moore Homesite - Commemorate the lives of two pioneering American black civil rights workers, who were killed when a bomb exploded under their bedroom on Christmas evening, 1951.
• Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary - Background and history of events during the integration of Central High in 1957. Photos, articles, and news releases are published. Museum and visitor's center information is provided.
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott - By Lisa Cozzens - Describes the incident which started on December 1, 1955, when Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, and move to the back of the bus.
• A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum - Did you know...A. Philip Randolph first planned a March on Washington in 1941 to protest against governmental hiring practices that excluded African Americans from federal employment and federal contracts?
• Photo Tour of the Civil Rights Movement - A sampling of images from the national civil rights movement, and events that happened in the Seattle area.
• Rosa L. Parks: Woman to Watch - Women.com interviews civil rights leader Rosa Parks. Find out how this Medal of Freedom award winner has left her mark.
• Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott - On the 1st of December, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat.
• Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement - Personal testimony and contact information from veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement.
• Voices of the Civil Rights Era - Speeches by prominent persons of the era, including JFK's Inaugural Address, and speeches by Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X.
• American Women Who Shaped the Civil Rights Movement - bBy Eleanor Gervasini Willis - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. Photo taken on 08/28/1963.