CHS Pathfinder: Civil Rights

Terms to use in searching the CHS Catalog

civil rights, civil rights movement, segregation,"Jim Crow",

Call numbers: Go "browse" the shelves in these areas

323

Some books which may be borrowed

Carry me home : Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution 976.1 MCW
Civil Right Movement (An Eyewitness History) 323.1 WEX
Civil Rights (Great Speeches in History) (2003) 323.1 CIV
Civil Rights (Political Cartoons) 323.1 CIV
Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Phototgraphy of Charles Moore 323.1 DUR

Some Reference books - to be used in the library

American Civil Rights: Almanac  R 305.8 DES
Civil Rights and the Great Society 1961-1967 (20th Century America) R 973.9 TWE
Civil Rights in the United States R 323.097 CIV
Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights R 323.1 GRE

Magazine databases and other eResources

Gale Virtual Reference Library 
MAS Ultra - School Edition 
Multicultural Reference Center 
SIRS
TOPICsearch 
Newsbank
Newspaper Source  

Web sites

African American Oddysey: Civil Rights Era    from the Library of Congress
Civil Rights Resource Guide     An extensive list from Multnomah County Library
Little Rock Nine from Teaching Tolerance

AV - Videos, DVDs

• Civil Rights VID 323.173  CIV
• Eyes on the Prize (PBS Series) VID
• A Time For Justice: America's Civil Rights Movement VID 323.4 TIM
• We Shall Not Be Moved  VID 323 WE
• We Shall Overcome: The Song that Moved a Nation  VID 323 WE

Biography

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X  B X
• Let it shine : stories of  Black women freedom fighters 920 PIN
• Leon's Story 975.6 TIL
• They Had A Dream : The Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X  920 ARC

T Dakubu 2006