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Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
Find resources about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, many of them arranged thematically.
Four Little Girls
- 4 Little GirlsCall Number: F334 .B69 N3 2000When a bomb tears through the basement of a black Baptist church on a peaceful fall morning, it takes the lives of four young girls; Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins. This racially motivated crime, taking place at a time when the civil rights movement is burning with a new flame, could have doused that flame forever. Instead it fuels a nation's outrage and brings Birmingham, Alabama to the forefront of America's concern. DVD.
Violence
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Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Call Number: HV6457 .W66 2009
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by Call Number: HV6459 .W57 2000See also http://withoutsanctuary.org/
A Pedagogy of Witnessing: Curatorial Practice and the Pursuit of Social Justice by E-book
Explores the curating of "difficult knowledge" through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.
Race Riots
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Encyclopedia of American Race Riots by Call Number: E184.A1 E573 2007
The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Call Number: F704.T92 P37 2021
Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy by Call Number: F704 .T92 R56 2002
An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 by Call Number: LD3413 .D69 2003- Burn, Baby, Burn! The Los Angeles Race Riot, August, 1965 byCall Number: F869 .L8C6
Detroit: Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge the Racial Divide by Call Number: F574.D49 N43345 2013
Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A. by Call Number: F869 .L89 M566 2003
Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 by Call Number: F548.9 .N3T8
Digital Collections
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing (Birmigham Public Library):On September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama and killed four little girls. The Birmingham Public Library has digitized images, newspaper clippings, and documents that show the immediate and widespread destruction of the tragedy and heartbreak that inspired a movement.
- Violence Against Freedom RidersOn May 4, 1961, an interracial group of student activists under the auspices of the Congress of Racial Equality departed Washington D.C. by bus to test local compliance throughout the Deep South with two Supreme Court rulings banning segregated accommodations on interstate buses and in bus terminals that served interstate routes. The "Freedom Riders" traveled with limited difficulty through North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina, but encountered violent resistance in Alabama. A mob of angry whites firebombed one of their buses outside the city of Anniston, and riders were severely beaten in Birmingham and Montgomery.
- Tulsa Race RiotThe 1921 Tulsa Race Riot constituted two days of violence that left an unconfirmed number of dead citizens and destroyed 35 square blocks of the prosperous Greenwood neighborhood, once known as “Black Wall Street.” This digital collection features 1,327 documents and images from various state government agencies, such as the governor’s office and the attorney general’s office, regarding the investigation into the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
- Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918Report published by the NAACP in 1969.
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