Civil Rights

Educational Module

Institute of International Studies
Unviersity of California, Berkeley

History of Civil Rights

• A Short History of American Civil Rights Law by the Whithy Law firm.
• Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement by Western Michigan University's Political Science Department.
• Martin Luther King Jr. site by the Seattle Times.
• LBJ and Equality of Outcome from Northwestern University's "The Challenge of Democracy" pages.
• Voting Rights Address to Congress by Lyndon Baines Johnson, from Northwestern University's "The Challenge of Democracy" pages.
• The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University.

Relevant Issues

• African American Odyssey exhibit, from the Library of Congress.
• LatinoNetwork, the California Latino Civil Rights Network
• Water pollution as a civil rights issue, from the San Francisco Chronicle website.

Organizations

• The ACLU Freedom Network by the American CIvil Liberties Union
• US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights

People

• Thelton Henderson, United States District Judge, bio provided by Judge Henderson

  See the interview with Judge Henderson (April 1998)

  and the internet chat with the judge.

• Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, a biography by Charles Isbell, a graduate student at MIT.

Research

• Civil Rights Journals by FindLaw Internet Legal Resources