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Civil Rights Resources

• African American/Civil Rights - From the Alabama Department of Archives and History

• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

• CDR (Center for Democratic Renewal)

• CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

• FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation

• LDEF (NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund)

• Living Memory - A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Montgomery Improvement Association

• NAACP

• National Civil Rights Museum

• NLG (National Lawyer's Guild

• National Urban League

• Operation PUSH (Jesse Jackson's organization)

• SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

• Southern Regional Council

Double V:
The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen
By Lawrence P. Scott and William M Womack, Sr.

For Us, the Living (Banner Books)
By Myrlie Evers

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle:
An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
By Susie Erenrich

The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
By Daisy Bates

Parting the Waters:
America in the King Years, 1954-63
By Taylor Branch

Rosa Parks (Penguin Lives)
By Douglas Brinkley

Rosa Parks: My Story
By Rosa Parks (Reading level-ages 9-12)

The Tuskegee Airmen:
The Men Who Changed a Nation
By Charles E. Francis