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)
Lies Our Students Tell Themselves
http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-35-spring-2009/department/lies-our-students-tell-themselves
Expanding Voting Rights (teaching lesson)
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)
March 7, 1965: Photo gallery from the Denver Post