Black Americans

Primary sources on the events of 1964 known as "Freedom Summer", including a page of podcasts and audio files of interviews with participants.

In this video produced by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Rep. John Lewis recalls the fateful day of the Selma to Montgomery march in 1963.

Images and visual resources from the Civil Rights Movement.

The Emmett Till Archives at Florida State University Libraries consists of primary and secondary source material related to the life, murder, and memory of Emmett Louis Till.

This timeline is part of the website for the PBS series, Eyes on the Prize.

from American Constitutional Law: The Bill of Rights and Subsequent Amendments

From Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
This case turns upon the constitutionality of an act of the General Assembly of the state of Louisiana, passed in 1890, providing for separate railway carriages for the white and colored races….

From Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches
On the long road from his childhood home in Baltimore, Maryland, Thurgood Marshall vaulted economic and social barriers to become one of the most celebrated lawyers in American history. After graduating with honors from Howard University Law School in 1920, Marshall began a twenty-year tenure with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. With mentor Charles Hamilton Houston, Marshall attacked the primary root of racial disparity, America’s education system, by organizing a long-term legal campaign to eradicate segregation in the nation’s schools.

From Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
There are in the United States some four million Negroes of school age, of whom two million are in school, and of these, four-fifths are taught by forty-eight thousand Negro teachers in separate schools.

Original documents and primary sources relating to the passages of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Full text from the Congressional Record.

A 2015 report from the Congressional Research Service which gives a comprehensive overview of voting rights from the Civil War through the passage of the 1965 Act. Includes information about 2013 judicial limitations on sections of the Voting Rights Act.

Primary documents relating to the case.