Civil Rights of African Americans

American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) campaigns, litigates and informs the general public about the current state of civil and political rights in the United States. Its areas of concern include freedom of speech, religious liberty, safeguarding gay and homosexual rights, preventing racial and sexual discrimination, prison reform and issues relating to the death sentence and the abolition of capital punishment. Links are given to relevant cases, news stories, legal documents and blog posts.

Center for Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was established in 1966. It is a leading independent US body which campaigns and litigates for the protection of US civil liberties and international human rights. Its website provides information on the aims of the organisation and its campaigns. It includes access to press releases, case notes, campaign materials and full-text pamphlets and reports.

Amicus

AMICUS is a free online supplement to the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL). It seeks to offer a space for online debate about the latest research on civil rights (with a special emphasis on the civil rights of African-Americans). Although a broad range of other areas of civil rights are also covered including freedoms, online rights. The site includes articles, opinion pieces and a conversations area containing organised debates amongst scholars.

Civil Rights Digital Library

The Civil Rights Digital Library is maintained by the University of Georgia. It covers the history of the African American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, providing links to books, documents, news films, photographs, articles, bibliographies, cartoons and other ephemera available online. The site can be browsed by theme, person and event. Topics covered include school desegregation, civil rights protests, the contribution of Martin Luther King and key US civil rights legislation. There is a large teacher support section, with lesson plans, timelines and annotated bibliographies.
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