Civil Rights Resources
Visit our new resource for teachers and students, a county-by-county look at the people, places, and events of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement: www.mscivilrightsproject.com
Suggested Reading
Glowing review for new Civil Rights reader sponsored by the Winter Institute
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Click here to download a pdf document with a timeline of selected events during the Civil Rights Movement specific to Mississippi. This 8-page document requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
Click here to download a pdf file of suggested reading on the Civil Rights movement. This 4-page document requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
Other Websites
- University of Mississippi Libraries Archives and Special Collections John Elon Phay Collection documenting segregation in Mississippi schools in the late 1940s and 1950s
- In Memoriam John Hope Franklin (1915-2009), a great friend of the Winter Institute: Newsweek tribute Washington Post tribute
- DVD documentary on the Freedom Riders FREE TO EDUCATORS
- Study guide to the award-winning documentary film series Eyes on the Prize, produced by Facing History and Ourselves
- State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movements (American Radio Works series)
- Brown v. Board of Education teaching resources (through Trinity College of Hartford, Connecticut)
- California Newsreel: film and video for social change
- “Lyrical Freedom Riders,” song by Bryan Field McFarland