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CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT & THE 1950'S |
Finding Books
Finding Articles
Selected Web Sites on Brown v. Board of Education & Civil Rights
in the 1950's
Finding Pictures Online
African American History Resources
Books:
The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System. After clicking on the link above to access the catalog, follow the steps below:
- Type search words (title, author and/or subject) in the first search box & click Submit.
- The search results will show books and other materials
in all libraries in the PLS system.
- To Limit your search
results to materials at
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Click
on Modify Search near the top of the screen.
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You
will be brought back to the search screen and your search term(s) will
reappear.
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Scroll
down to the Location selection box (2nd box under Limit
to: below the search boxes),
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select
Skyline College in the Location box,
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then click the Submit button.
- Some suggested search words:
- integration AND education
- segregation AND education
- civil rights
- nineteen fifties
Article Databases (to access magazine, journal, newspaper
and reference book articles):
Gale
PowerSearch databases - on
campus or off-campus w/ library card
articles from academic journals, popular magazines and newspapers;
excellent set of general periodical databases.
Available from off-campus--as long as you have a library card (library
card bar code number is required).
- To narrow searches, combine concepts with AND.
- Suggested search words:
- integration AND education
- segregation AND education
- civil rights AND education
- 1950's AND integration AND education
- 1950's AND music
- 1950's AND sports
- Malcolm X
- Thurgood
- NAACP AND history
Gale History Resource Center - U.S.: primary documents, reference articles, and full-text journal articles
covering all aspects of
Available from off-campus--as long as you have a library card
(PLS library card bar code number is required).
- Enter search word(s) and click the Search button
- At results page, additional articles may be available by clicking on the article type tabs--"Periodicals", "Primary Sources", "Maps & Images" & "Reference Materials" at the top of the page.
- Click on the title of an article to display the full text of the article.
Gale Biography Resource Center: database of biographical articles on famous people.
Available from off-campus--as long as you have a library card
(PLS library card bar code number is required).
- Type in name of person being researched and click the Search button.
- If more than one name matches your search, select the specific person from the list of names found by clicking on the name
- When the specific name is selected, a
list of general biographical articles ("Narrative Biographies")
on that person are listed.
[Additional types of articles-- "Thumbnail Biographies" (brief biographical data), "Magazine Articles" (more specifc articles about the person from magazines & "Websites" (links to recommended websites about the person) are available by clicking on the tabs at the top of the results page.] - Click on the name to see the full text of an article.
Brown v. Board of Education:
In
Pursuit of Freedom & Equality: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: Sponsored by the Brown Foundation
for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research, this site includes: an
overview and summary of the Brown case, a discussion of court cases from
1849-1949 which were in prelude to Brown, background on each of the five cases
which comprised the Brown case, biographical information on participants in the
Brown case. full text of decisions related to the
Brown case from the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts, an electronic
exhibit, a tour of Brown sites in
Landmark Cases: Brown v. Board of Education (1954): full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of the case, including classifying arguments for each side, political cartoon analysis, text of majority opinion & more.
Brown
v Board Of Education National Historic Site: Official National Park Service
site, located in
Segregation Through the
Lens: African American Schools in Mississippi before Integration: Collection of images of black
public schools taken during the 1940s and 1950s is part of various studies and
surveys conducted by the Bureau of Educational Research at the
Civil Rights & the 1950's:
Little
Rock High 40th Anniversary: This site is devoted to the history of a landmark event in
the history of school integration in the American South. In 1957, nine
African-American high school students were the first to enroll in the all-white
Powerful Days in Black & White: the Civil
Rights Photography of Charles Moore Charles Moore was a photojournalist for Life during the
late 1950s and early 1960s. The photographs speak for themselves, organized
into subject headings: Ole Miss,
Black History & the Civil Rights Movement: African American history site from the New York Institute for Special Education
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement: Virtual tour of 41 houses, schools, churches, and buildings associated with civil rights activism and events.
How Race Was Lived in America: A Decade-by-Decade Selection of Articles from the N.Y. Times: Articles from the late 1800's to 2000.
Malcolm X: A Research Site: Information about the former Nation of Islam activist and articulate spokesman for the concept of racial pride in the early 1960s. Included are a chronology of his life, a bibliography of his writings with some links to online texts, an annotated Webliography with links to other sites, and a study guide which provides a brief introduction to the life and ideas of this man whose birth name was Malcolm Little and Muslim name Malik Shabazz.
The King Center: Comprehensive site on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Comprehensive site on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. produced by the Seattle Times
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University: "Historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated," including papers, speeches, sermons, a biography, an excerpt from his autobiography, a chronology, articles and related links.
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin: Openly gay activist Bayard Rustin
"organized the 1963 March on
The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s: Documents detailing this period in
Time.com: Celebrating Black History: Profiles, articles from back issues of Time magazine, images from Life magazine & more.
More African American History Resources
Finding
Books
Finding Magazine & Journal Articles
Selected Web Sites
Google Image Search: Search for images on sites throughout the Web.
Images on the Web: Tools and databases for finding the best images on the Web.
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