{1939} Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
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{1955} Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice
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Web Resources
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/claudette-colvin
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/books/26colvin.html?_r=0
http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/claudette-colvin/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/books/26colvin.html?_r=0
http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/claudette-colvin/
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{1955} A Wreath for Emmett Till
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{1955} Rosa
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Web Resources
http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/rosaparks/?gclid=CL7o2fDf9bkCFelAMgodFi4ArQ
http://www.rosaparkslegacy.com/about-us
http://www.history.com/topics/rosa-parks
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/rosa-parks/
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rosa_parks.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/index.htm
http://www.rosaparkslegacy.com/about-us
http://www.history.com/topics/rosa-parks
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/rosa-parks/
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rosa_parks.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/index.htm
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{1957} Little Rock Girl 1957
Web Resources
http://www.littlerock9.com/
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ar1.htm
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/09/littlerock200709
http://www.slate.com/
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ar1.htm
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/09/littlerock200709
http://www.slate.com/
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{1960} Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
{1960) Freedom on the Menu
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http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-2.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18615556
http://www.sitins.com/index.shtml
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18615556
http://www.sitins.com/index.shtml
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{1960} The Story of Ruby Bridges
{1060} Through My Eyes
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Web Resources
http://www.rubybridges.com/
http://rubybridgesfoundation.org/
http://www.softschools.com/timelines/ruby_bridges_timeline/49/
http://rubybridgesfoundation.org/
http://www.softschools.com/timelines/ruby_bridges_timeline/49/
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{1963} We've Got a Job
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Web Resources
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_childrens_crusade/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/02/how-the-children-of-birmingham-changed-the-civil-rights-movement.html
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/fifty-years-after-the-birmingham-childrens-crusade.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/02/how-the-children-of-birmingham-changed-the-civil-rights-movement.html
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/fifty-years-after-the-birmingham-childrens-crusade.html
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{1963} Birmingham, 1963
{1963} Birmingham Sunday
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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/four-black-schoolgirls-killed-in-birmingham
http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/civil-rights-movement-birmingham-campaign/
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights/rights3.html
http://www.16thstreetbaptist.org/
http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/civil-rights-movement-birmingham-campaign/
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights/rights3.html
http://www.16thstreetbaptist.org/
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{I963} I Have a Dream
By Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
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Web Resources
http://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/civil-rights-movement6.htm
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
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{1963} Martin & Mahalia
Web Resources
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/martin_luther_king_jr.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/opinion/mahalia-jackson-and-kings-rhetorical-improvisation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.thekingcenter.org/
http://www.mahaliajackson.us/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/opinion/mahalia-jackson-and-kings-rhetorical-improvisation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.thekingcenter.org/
http://www.mahaliajackson.us/
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WEB RESOURCES
LBJ Library & Museum: Civil Rights
National Civil Rights Museum
Culture & Change: Black History in America
National Civil Rights Museum
Culture & Change: Black History in America
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