Harlem Renaissance/Civil Rights Links
- African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era (discusses desegregation, musicians, and baseball players)
- Civil Rights Movement-MSN Encarta (encyclopedia article on the Civil Rights Movement with many links to other articles)
- Harlem Renaissance-MSN Encarta (encyclopedia article on the Harlem Renaissance with many links to other articles)
- PAL: Harlem Renaissance: A Brief Introduction (timeline, poems, list of novels, list of important figures, outline)
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- "Petition of Many Slaves" by Jacob Lawrence
- "We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite" by Max ...
- "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Recons...
- Cover of Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: Book by Ja...
- Bessie Smith
- Downhearted Blues: Composed by Alberta Hunter and ...
- Comparing The Two Movements
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Persons and Groups of the Civil Rights Movement
- Black Panther Party for Self-Defense: a militant political group that believed in the rights of blacks to use violence to defend themselves and called for blacks to band together to improve their conditions
- Congress of Racial Equality: organization that seeks equal opportunity for African Americans. It joined with SNCC in the Freedom Rides and organized sit-ins
- Elijah Muhammad: leader of the Nation of Islam, advocating the creation of a seperate state for Black Muslims as his followers were called
- Malcolm X: At first, as a member of the Nation of Islam preached that blacks must build their own society, but after breaking with the Nation of Islam and visiting Mecca he believed that all races could live together and renounced his hostility toward whites
- Martin Luther King Jr.: minister, speaker, and leader of the SCLC. He based his nonviolent protests on Mohandas Ghandi, and he believed that his duty as a preacher was to advocate for racial equality
- NAACP: took legal action to assist African Americans (such as the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board) and also organized protests
- Rosa Parks: refused to give up seat to a white man while riding a bus
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference: organization of churches and clergymen that organized nonviolent protests on behalf of the Civil Rights Movement
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: organization of college students designed to coordinate sit-ins at white-only lunch counters. It joined CORE in the Freedom Rides
Of these Harlem Renaissance writers, which have you read works by?
I've Been to the Mountaintop (click picture to read speech)
Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," saying that even though he may not see the "Promised Land," it will be reached. Shortly thereafter, he was assassinated.
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