Web Links

Excerpt from “A Letter from a Selma, Alabama, Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://new.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/Excerpt%20from%20Selma%20Letter.pdf

“Letter From Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/resources/article/annotated_letter_from_birmingham/

The Right to Vote (Transcript)

http://www.tolerance.org/supplement/right-vote-transcript

Lies Our Students Tell Themselves

http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-35-spring-2009/department/lies-our-students-tell-themselves

20 Years of Change

http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-40-fall-2011/department/20-years-change

Expanding Voting Rights (teaching lesson)

http://www.tolerance.org/lesson/expanding-voting-rights

Signing of the Voting Rights Act (NBC news clip, 1964)

http://www.tolerance.org/supplement/signing-voting-rights-act

Civil Rights Road Trip (interactive map)

http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-41-spring-2012/feature/civil-rights-road-trip

“Alabama Police Use Gas and Clubs To Rout Negroes” (New York Times article, March 8, 1965)

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/mlk-rout.pdf and http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0307.html

March 7, 1965 | Civil Rights Marchers Attacked in Selma

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/march-7-1965-civil-rights-marchers-attacked-in-selma/

March 15, 1965 | President Johnson Calls for Passage of Voting Rights Act (blog article)

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/march-15-1965-president-johnson-calls-for-passage-of-voting-rights-act/

March 7, 1965: Photo gallery from the Denver Post

http://photos.denverpost.com/2013/03/07/photos-on-this-day-march-7-1965-bloody-sunday-the-political-and-emotional-peak-of-the-american-civil-rights-movement/