Downloadable Ebooks from FollettShelf
Rosa Parks by ISBN: 9780313352188Publication Date: 2011-07-31There's a whole chapter in here on Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Articles in Databases
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Articles on the Web
- Get on the Bus: The Freedom Riders of 1961You can read an excerpt from a book about the Freedom Riders on this Web page. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice is a book, written by Raymond Arsenault. The book tells the story of white and black students that journeyed on buses through the Southern United States in 1961 to test the law preventing segregation of blacks and whites on public buses and other public places.
- Nonviolent ResistanceReflect on Martin Luther King's ideas about nonviolent resistance and pacifism. Courageously confronting evil, King practiced the Gandhian method of nonviolence to help the oppressed obtain freedom. After growing up in the midst of segregation, King was fascinated with the idea that people could refuse to cooperate with an unjust system without resorting to violence. Nonviolence became a way of life, as King followed six principles to seek the friendship of enemies and not respond with hatred or retaliation even when treated unfairly.
- "Civil Rights Movement" by FindingDulcineaA collection of primary and secondary sources on many topics.
- Bobby Seale, a Huey P. Newton StoryAn advocate for civil rights and social change, Bobby Seale found himself court-martialed in the Air Force and bound and gagged in a Chicago court room for contempt of court. To say he was outspoken about rights for African Americans would be an understatement. Read about the political activities of Bobby Seale with the Black Panther Party and listen to him speak about revolution. Investigate a timeline of the Black Panthers and Seale's multiple arrests for their protest activities.
Books on Civil Rights
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E-books on the Civil Rights
Almanac, Sixties in America (Civil Rights Chapter) by ISBN: 0787692468Publication Date: 2004-11-29Citation:
"Civil Rights." The Sixties in America Reference Library. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Vol. 1: Almanac. Detroit: UXL, 2005. 115-132. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 5 Apr. 2013.
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Primary Sources, Sixties in America (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chapter) by ISBN: 0787692484Publication Date: 2004-11-29Citation: "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee." The Sixties in America Reference Library. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Vol. 3: Primary Sources. Detroit: UXL, 2005. 13-23. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 5 Apr. 2013.- Primary Sources, Sixties in America ("Malcolm X" Chapter) by ISBN: 0787692484Publication Date: 2004-11-29"Malcolm X." The Sixties in America Reference Library. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Vol. 3: Primary Sources. Detroit: UXL, 2005. 25-40. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 5 Apr. 2013.
- Primary Sources, Sixties in America ("Martin Luther King Jr" Chapter) by ISBN: 0787692484Publication Date: 2004-11-29Citation:
"King Jr., Martin Luther." The Sixties in America Reference Library. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Vol. 3: Primary Sources. Detroit: UXL, 2005. 41-53. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 5 Apr. 2013. 
Supreme Court Drama (Brown v. Board of Education 1954) by ISBN: 0787648779Publication Date: 2000-12-15Citation:
"Brown v. Board of Education 1954." Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America. Ed. A Walton Litz, et al. Vol. 3. Detroit: UXL, 2001. 779-786. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 5 Apr. 2013.- Supreme Court Drama (Challenge to The Civil Rights Act of 1964) by ISBN: 0787648779Publication Date: 2000-12-15Citation:
"Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 1964." Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America. Ed. A Walton Litz, et al. Vol. 3. Detroit: UXL, 2001. 595-600. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 5 Apr. 2013. - Student Movements of The 1960s byISBN: 0737763728Publication Date: 2012-08-24Use the Gale password to access from home
The Vietnam War by ISBN: 9780737750089Publication Date: 2011-03-11Use Gale password to access from home.
