African-American History Celebration

 

Join us for an African-American history celebration featuring the Civil Rights Movement in honor of Rosa Parks.  Presented by the librarians at the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/index.html).

 

People who had a great impact during the Civil Rights Movement.

 

Rosa Parks

  1. Rosa Parks, seated toward front of bus, Montgomery, Alabama, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
    http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c11235
  2. Today in History: December 1
    Rosa Parks arrested on December 1, 1955 for disobeying an Alabama law requiring blacks to relinquish bus seats to whites.
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec01.html
  3. “With an Even Hand”: Brown v. Board at Fifty, Exhibitions.
    Images of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted and of her arrest report
    http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html 
 
Martin Luther King, Jr.




1.      “Rev. Martin Luther King delivers his address at the Lincoln Memorial here 8/28 during the civil rights march on Washington”, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c11159 
2.      Today in History: January 15

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a major voice for the civil rights in the twentieth century, was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan15.html 
3.      Voices of Civil Rights, Exhibitions

Includes an image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. receiving one of the pens used in signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 from President Lyndon B. Johnson.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/cr-exhibit.html 
4.      Catalog Record for the Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1955-1970, Library of Congress Online Catalog

Twelve speeches delivered by King, including a typescript of his "I Have a Dream" speech given at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=local&CMD=010a+%20mm%2084006160&CNT=10+records+per+page 
 
Bayard Rustin




1.      Bayard Rustin pointing to a map of Washington, D.C., explaining bus route to march marshals of the March on Washington, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c18984
2.      Image of movement strategist Bayard Rustin with brief biographical information and a quote from his socialist magazine, Liberation, African-American Odyssey, Exhibitions

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html#0905 
3.      Bayard T. Rustin Papers: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress

A finding aid in the Manuscript Division that includes biographical information.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/rustin.html 
 
Jackie Robinson
  1. Image of Jackie Robinson and a brief description of how he broke the color line in baseball, American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Exhibitions.
    http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri042.html
  2. Letter from Jackie Robinson that describes his debut into baseball thus breaking the color barrier that existed since 1876, American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Exhibitions.
    http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri067.html
  3. “This I Believe…”, speech by Jackie Robinson (one of many contained in his files), American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Exhibitions.
    http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri070.html

4.      Letter signed by Jackie Robinson that demonstrates the tie between African American civil rights leaders and African leaders and students, Africana Collections: An Illustrated Guide
http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/guide/afr-contemporary.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/guide/images/a51rs.jpg 

5.      “Breaking the Color Line:  1940-1946”, Baseball, the Color Line and Jackie Robinson, special presentation in Baseball and Jackie Robinson, American Memory

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jr1940.html
6.      Jackie Robinson: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress.

A finding aid in the Manuscript Division that includes biographical information.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/robinsnj.html
 
Dorothy Height




1.      Dorothy Height, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c13269 
2.      “Dorothy Height Discusses Civil Rights in America”, Library of Congress Information Bulletin, Feb-March, 2004.

http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0402-3/rights.html 
3.      Dorothy Height at the 2004 National Book Festival

Webcast with brief biography.

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2004/height.html 
 
Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine




1.      Little Rock Nine and Daisy Bates posed in living room, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c19154 
2.      Little Rock Nine and Daisy Bates, African American Odyssey, Exhibitions

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html#0918
 

Events that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement.

 

Selma March

Today in History: March 7
March from Selma, Alabama in 1965 demonstrating for African-American voting rights.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar07.html

March on Washington

  1. 1963 March on Washington, August 28, 1963, African American Odyssey, Exhibitions http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html#0913-0914
  2. “Why Should We March?”, African American Odyssey, Exhibitions
    http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@band(mssmisc+ody0808))
Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott



"5,000 at Meeting Outline Boycott; Bullet Clips Bus." Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott, African American Odyssey, Exhibitions

 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@band(aaohtml+0903))
 
Related Resources
 
African-American Civil Rights, American Women:  A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States, American Memory
Information about African-American women’s involvement in the twentieth-century civil rights movement.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awmss5/afro_amer_rights.html 
Civil Rights, American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Exhibitions

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr057.html 
Brown v. Board of Education:  A chronological listing of related materials from the Library of Congress, Collection Guides & Bibliographies

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/afam/afam-brown.html 
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress, American Memory
Papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher.
1.      Collection Home Page - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html
2.        Speech before the Civil Right Mass Meeting, Washington, D. C. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mfd&fileName=24/24004/24004page.db&recNum=0   
The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress, American Memory
The papers of this author, educator, and political philosopher are one of the principal sources for the study of modern intellectual life.
1.      Collection Home Page - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/arendthome.html
2.        Essays and lectures---"Civil Rights," lecture, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.---1964 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mharendt_pub&fileName=05/051120/051120page.db&recNum=0 
Southern Mosaic:  The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip Collection, American Memory
A multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as field notes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States.
1.      Collection Home Page - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html 
2.        Song - This Little Light o’ Mine

 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lomaxbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(l2648b1))
Learning Page




1.      Civil Rights, Community Center

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_civilrights.php 
2.      From Slavery to Civil Rights:  A Timeline of African-American History, Activities

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/civilrights/flash.html