Portraits by 20th century artist Robert Templeton of leaders involved in the American Civil Rights movement. Features briefly annotated images of over two dozen individuals such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Whitney Moore Young, Jr.
'Explore America's cultural resources - buildings, landscapes, archeological sites, ethnographic resources, objects and documents, structures and districts.' Also has information about people from the past and establishes important connections to the present.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
'On September 15, 1963, the bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church [in Birmingham, Alabama] and killed four little girls. These powerful images, newspaper clippings, and documents show the immediate and widespread destruction of the tragedy and heartbreak that inspired a movement.'. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
Photos of the Civil Rights movement, taken by photojournalist Charles Moore.
Has transcripts of dozens of interviews with key participants in the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. Also includes a timeline of key events in the movement and a bibliography.
American civil-rights leader and author (1868Ð1963). Cofounded the Niagara Movement in 1905, which became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
