The State of Mississippi

o Read a brief history of Civil Rights in the United States
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Dept/PS/faculty/loevy/civil%20rights.html

The Origins
o Audio and Video Files from Greensboro, Misssissippi Public Library
http://www.sitins.com/multimedia.htm

o Greensboro Sitins: Launch of Civil Rights Movement
http://www.greensboro.com/sitins/images/20.html

o Interested in Ella Baker!
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chass/mds/ellahome.html

o Interested in information on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee!
http://longman.awl.com/history/primarysource_27_2.htm

o Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Statement of
Purpose (1960)
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chass/mds/sncchist.html

o Brief history of SNCC and photo of Bob Moses "speaking to other activists in the Greenwood, Mississippi, Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) office in March 1963".
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/

o Series of pages which features issues, people, events, timeline, links relating to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the years 1960-1966.
http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/Research/Files/187.html

o Brief description of SNCC and a collection of papers from 1959-1972 on microfilm relating to SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
http://foia.fbi.gov/sncc.htm
Lists links to 2,887 pages released under the Freedom of Information Act
"on the investigation opened in 1964 to establish the extent of communist infiltration in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (committee created in 1960 as a nonviolent civil rights movement primarily devoted to direct-action, voter-registration campaigns in the South)"

Grassroots Works
o Timeline of NAACP History
http://www.naacp.org/history2.asp

o Part 2 of the Library of Congress's Memory Project: Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and Demonstrations
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html

The Crawl Space
o Find out about the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
http://www.core-online.org/
o The history of CORE
http://www.core-online.org/History/history.htm
o What is CORE
http://www.core-online.org/Features/what_is_core.htm
o Learn more on CORE's site about Freedom Summer
http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom_summer.htm

Freedom Summer: A New Voter
o Listen to sung by civil rights workers
http://cweb.middlebury.edu/f99/ac200a/civil_rights_songs.htm

o Learn about Allard Lowenstein, a legal advisor to the civil rights movement in Mississippi who assisted Robert Moses in the recruitment of white college students to work for the Freedom Summer project.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/l/Lowenstein,Allard_K.

o Listen to an oral history with Mr. Charles Cobb
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/oh/cobb.htm

o Listen to Bob Moses describe the Greenwood Voter Registration
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/realaudio/bob_oses.ram

A Party for the People
o Read about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/mfdp.html

o Listen to an Oral History with FANNIE LOU HAMER
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/oh/hamer.htm

The Struggle Moves On
o Description of Civil Rights Acts1866 t0 1991
http://hcl.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/dye/docs/civrit.htm

o Introduction to Federal Voting Rights Laws
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro.htm

o Review the Voting Rights Act of 1965
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro_b.htm

o Read about the Southern Regional Council's (SRC) initiatives to promote racial justice, protect democratic rights and broaden civic participation.
http://www.southerncouncil.org/

o Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement.
http://crmvet.org/