Church Bombing / Rev. James Bevel
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Learn More About the Children's March
About the 1963 Birmingham Bombing
African American Odyssey The Civil Rights Era
An Interactive Civil Rights Chronology
Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing - 1963
Birmingham, Alabama: Civil Rights
Birmingham church bombing by the Ku Klux Klan
Birmingham church bombing timeline
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Online
Breitlinks Celebrates African American History
Children at Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.
Civil Rights and the Struggle for Democracy
Civil Rights Reports, Facts, Glossary, Chronology, and Newsletters
Dr. Martin Luther King's Eulogy for the Martyred Children at the 16th Street Baptist Church
FBI Spies On and Harasses Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From Snarling Dogs To Bloody Sunday
In Memory of the Four Little Girls About the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
Interview: Mary McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Carry Me Home: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Kids Making Good: The Children's Crusade
King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan The Children's Crusade
Lessons from Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma
Life and Times of Vernon Johns Online Book
Madison Voices Celebrates the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King
March on Washington: Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" (full text and audio)
March on Washington Flyers: Teachers' Domain
March on Washington: Remembering
March on Washington: The world hears of Dr. King's "Dream"
Official Program for the March on Washington
Oral History Transcripts: Civil Rights Documentation Project
President John F. Kennedy and Civil Rights
President John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Address
President John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Bill
President John F. Kennedy Thinkquest
Reach and Teach Free Education Kit: The Children's March
Teachers' Domain Boycott and Direct Action (Multimedia resources for the classroom and professional development)
Timeline: Civil Rights Movement
Tolerance.org Teaching Tolerance The Children's March
UPl: September 16, 1963, 16th Street Church Bombing
U.S. History - Civil Rights Movement
USM Oral History Civil Rights Documentation Project
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement: Images of a Peoples' Movement
We Shall Overcome: Lincoln Memorial
We Shall Overcome: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
We Shall Overcome: West Park (Birmingham, AL)
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights
Online Audio & Music
1963 March on Washington: 'O Freedom,' The Demands, The Pledge, The Prayer
Fannie Lou Hamer: Roots of Her Activism
March on Washington: Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" (full text and audio)
Robert F. Williams: Self Respect, Self Defense, & Self Determination
NPR: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
NPR Separate But Unequal: How a Student-Led Protest Helped Change the Nation
NPR: Montgomery Bus Boycott Celebrations
President John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Address
SNCC RealAudio (SNCC 1960-1966) Includes
Film and Video
African-American History TV & Radio Collection
American Revolution of '63. NBC, 1991.
The Children's Marchby Tell the Truth Pictures, 2004 (Teaching Tolerance)
Citizen King. PBS, The American Experience
Dream Deferred. SNCC, 1964.
Eyes on the Prize, PBS
Freedom On My Mind Freedom On My Mind California Newsreel, 1994
Freedom Song, TNT
Fundi, the Story of Ella Baker. First Run Features, 1981.
The Intolerable Burden, First Run Icarus Films. 2003
The Long Walk Home. Miramax Films, 1991
Mississippi Becomes a Democracy
Mississippi — Is This America? 1962-1964, 1986. PBS
Mississippi Summer: The Unfinished Journey. Films for the Humanities, 1993
The Murder of Emmitt Till. PBS, The American Experience
Rivers of Change The Legacy of Five Unheralded Women in Montgomery and Their Struggle for Justice and Dignity, Cosmo-D productions.
The Second American Revolution. Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Bill Moyers, 1994. PBS
Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders
We Shall Overcome. Story of the song that became the anthem that set America marching towards racial equality
Books
Anderson, Ho Che. King (Graphic Novel Format, 3 volumes). Sagebrush Education Resources, 2002.
Blake, John. Children of the Movement. Lawrence Hill Books, 2004
Boyd, Herb. We Shall Overcome (Multimedia). Sourcebooks, 2004
Chalmers, David. How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003
Children from all over the World. Stand up For Your Rights. Two-Can Publishers, 2000
Carawan, Guy and Candie. Sing for Freedom (Civil Rights Movement Through Song). Sing Out Corporation 1990
Carrier, Jim. A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement. Harcourt, 2004
Carson, Clayborne (Foreword); Myrlie Evers-Williams (Editor); Mark Bauerlein (Editor); Todd Steven Burroughs; Ella Forbes; and Jim Haskins. Civil Rights Chronicle: The African-American Struggle for Freedom (Photo Essay). Publications International, 2003
Chafe, William Henry (Editor); Robert Korstad (Editor); Raymond Gavins (Editor). Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South. New Press, 2001
Cobbs, Elizabeth H; Petric J. Smith, Long Time Coming: An Insider's Story of the Church Bombing that Rocked the World. Crane Hill Publishers, 1994
Dailey, Jane Elizabeth; Bryant Simon (Editor); Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (Editor); Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Princeton University Press, 2000
Eskew, Glenn T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. University of North Carolina Press, 1996
Fremon, David K. Jim Crow Laws and Racism in American History. Enslow Publishers, 2000
Finlayson, Finlayson. We Shall Overcome: The History of the American Civil Rights Movement (Emphasizes freedom song lyrics and speeches). Lerner Publishing Group, 2002
Gaillard, Frye. Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America. University of Alabama Press, 2004
George, Linda and Charles George. Civil Rights Marches (Cornerstones of Freedom). Children's Press, 2000
Halberstam, David. The Children. Random House, 1999
Heath, William. The Children Bob Moses Led (Historical Fiction). Milkweed Editions, 1997
Huntley, Horace; David Montgomery; and Odessa Woolfolk. Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham. University of Illinois Press, 2004
Kasher, Steven. Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History 1954-68. Abbeville Press, 2000
King, Dr. Martin Luther. Why We Can't Wait. Harper & Row, 1963
Kennedy, Stetson. Jim Crow Guide: The Way It Was. Florida Atlantic University Press, 1990
Koestler, Rachel Grack. Going to School During the Civil Rights Movement. Blue Earth Books, 2002
Levine, Ellen. Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. Putnam Publishing Group, 2000
Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. Knopf , 1999
Loewen, James W. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America. The New Press, 2005
McWhorter, Diane. A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement From 1954 to 1968. Scholastic, 2004
McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home: Birmingham Alabama, Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. Simon & Schuster, 2001
Moore, Yvette. Freedom Songs
Myers, Walter Dean. Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom. HarperTrophy, 1991
Packard, Jerold, M. American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow. St. Martin's Press, 2001
Powledge, Fred. We Shall Overcome: Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. Simon & Schuster, 1993
Rochelle, Belinda. Witnesses to Freedom, Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights. Dutton, 1993
Sikora, Frank, Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case. The University of Alabama Press, 1991
Smith, John David (Editor); C. Vann Woodward (Editor). When Did Southern Segregation Begin? Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Turck, Mary. The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History With 21 Activities. Chicago Review Press, 2000
Tusa, Bobs. Faces of Freedom Summer: The Photographs of Herbert Randall. University of Alabama Press, 2001
Weisbrot, Robert. Marching Toward Freedom 1957-1965: From the Founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to the Assassination of Malcom X. Chelsea House Publications, 1994
Wexler, Sanford. An Eyewitness History of the Civil Rights Movement. Facts on File, 1999
Wexler, Sanford and Julian Bond (Introduction). Civil Rights Movement. Facts on File, 1993
White, Marjorie L. and Andrew M. Manis, editors. Birmingham's Revolutionaries Fred Shuttlesworth ACMHR. Mercer University Press, 2000
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