Birmingham Alabama Library Archives

16th Street Baptist Church

Washington Post: 1963 - Bomb Kills 4 Girls

FBI reopens probe into 1963 church bombing - July 7, 1997

CNN - 'Four Little Girls' takes director Lee into new territory

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Justice Overdue: Civil Rights Cases Reopened

This civil rights group was founded in1960. It was devoted to voter registration campaigns in the South. The FBI investigated this group in 1964 in order to determine the extent of communist infiltration in the movement.

The Murder of Medgar Evers

Birmingham Church Bombing

The Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner

Emmett Till

The Murder of Emmett Till

Civil Rights Movement Timeline

The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965

Our Stories: Narratives, Intverviews, & Memories

The History of Jim Crow

The March on Washington - 1963

March in Selma, Alabama - 1965

James Meredith's Admission to Ole Miss

Integrating Ole Miss

Nonviolent Resistance

Rosa Parks: "Why do you push us around?"

We Shall Overcome - Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement

NPR - Looking Back - Brown v. Board of Education (December 2003)

Brown v. Board of Education Online Archive

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Birmingham: A place where the past heals and hurts

American Women Who Shaped the Civil Rights Movement

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

International Civil Rights Musuem

Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Online Archives. The once-secret documents of Mississippi's infamous anti-civil rights agency.

PEOPLE

Video: The life of Coretta Scott King by Gladstone Brown

Video: Jimmy Carter Speaks at Coretta Scott King Funeral

Video: Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

Seattle Times - Martin Luther King Jr.

United States Department of Justice Investigation of Recent Allegations Regarding the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - June 2000

U.S. News - James Earl Ray tells M.L. King's son he didn't kill his father

James Earl Ray

Video: Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr. - Part 1 |  Part 2 |  Part 3 |  Part 4

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)

Video: Speech at Rosa Parks Funeral

Rosa Parks

The Rosa Parks Portal

John F. Kennedy

Audio - John F. Kennedy, U.S. senator of Massachusetts: Richard M. Nixon, U.S. Vice President -  Fourth Presidential Debate

John F. Kennedy - 35th U.S. President - Delivers Inaugural Address

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson Audio Files

George Wallace

Wallace in the School House Door - Audio Files

George Wallace Audio Speech

CNN - George Wallace Dies (1919 - 1998)

SITES OF INTEREST

Civil Rights Division - Department of Justice (United States)

Civil Rights Forum

Afro-American History

Ku Klux Klan

BOOKS

Until Justice Rolls Down by Frank Sikora  0817305203

Long Time Coming : An Insider's Story of the Birmingham Church Bombing That Rocked the World by Elizabeth H. Cobbs, Petric J. Smith

MISC

Black Voices

Essence