Center for the Study of Southern Culture.  University of Mississippi. 

The Center was founded in 1977.  The Center  promotes scholarship on every aspect of Southern culture, and encourages public understanding of the South through publications, media productions, lectures, performances, and exhibitions. The site map focus on academics, events and conferences, the Southern Foodways Alliance, the Southern Media Archive, publications, the southern culture catalog and Center's special projects.

Documenting the American South.  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

African American History. 

Developed as a part of About.com.  The site contains biographies, photographs, black codes for Mississippi, Louisiana and Washington.  Also included are the writings of Frederick Douglass, slave laws, the Emancipation Proclamation, personal correspondences and speeches, Jim crow laws, and lynchings in Georgia as well as America in general.

Brown v. Board of Education.

This site is made available by the Washburn University School of Law.  It has the full text  decisions related to the Brown case from the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts, and citations to related state court cases.  Also included are oral histories and a bibliography of books related to Brown.

Civil Rights Documentation Project. 

This site is sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the Tougaloo College Archives, the Mississippi Legislature and the USA's Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage. The resource is divided into three main sections:  1.  Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography.  2.  Civil right History Transcripts.  3.  Civil Rights Timeline.

Civil Rights Oral History Interviews.

Formulated at the McCain Library and Archives at the  University of Southern Mississippi, the website contains civil rights oral histories, transcripts and photographs, a timeline, bibliographies, digital collections as well as other civil rights resources.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project. 

The King Papers Project is a major research effort to assemble and disseminate historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated. The King Papers Project's principal mission is to publish a definitive fourteen-volume edition of King's most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts.  Also included are biographies, major events, quotes, chronologies, and other documents.

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement

Included is a list of historic landmark sites of the civil rights Movement, an itinerary map, histories of the civil rights movement, autobiographies, and biographies.

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Collections Archive

The purpose of the Archives Division of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is to collect, house and make accessible records and documents relating to events that occurred during the civil rights struggle of the 1950's and 1960's in the city of Birmingham and the United States. Inspired by the civil rights past, The Institute's  mission is to encourage communication and reconciliation of human rights issues worldwide, and to serve as a depository for civil rights archives and documents.

Civil Rights Memorial.  

The Civil Right memorial was built in 1989 by the southern Poverty Law Center as a part of an ongoing effort to educate young people about the civil rights movement and its continuing problems of racism in America.  The designer of the memorial refers to the website as a "collective memory of history".  The site covers the years 1954-1968:  the early struggles, the movement of the people, fighting for the ballot, confrontations, and days of rage.

The King Center. 

Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott Martin Luther King, The Martin Luther King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of America’s greatest nonviolent movement for justice, equality and peace.  The Martin Luther King Center utilizes diverse communications media, including books, audio and video cassettes, film, television, CDs and web pages, to reach out far beyond its physical boundaries to educate people all over the world about Dr. Martin Luther King’s life, work and his philosophy and methods of nonviolent conflict-reconciliation and social change.

National Civil Rights Museum.

The National Civil Rights Museum was opened in 1991 at the site of the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. The Museum exists to assist the public in understanding the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact and influence on the human rights movement worldwide, through its collections, exhibitions, research and educational programs.

Website descriptions were taken directly from the websites.

updated 2/1/06