Resource Guides: Painting 'The World House': Activist Art for Human Freedom: Explore History

Books & ebooks

Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
eBook
Survival Pending Revolution : The History of the Black Panther Party
ebook
Black Panthers, 1968
Call Number: E185.615.B37 2002
Black Panther Party : Service to the People Programs
eBook
Sisters in the Struggle : African-American Women in the Civil Rights & Black Power Movements
eBook
I may not get there with you : the true Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call Number: E185.97.K5D97 2000
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader
Call Number: E185.615.E95 1991
We Will Shoot back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
Call Number: E185.93.M6U46 2013
Black Panthers Speak
Call Number: E185.615.F58 2002
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Call Number: HV8141.C46 1988
We shall overcome : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black freedom struggle
Call Number: E185.97.K5W4 1990
Angela Davis, an Autobiography
Call Number: E185.97.D23A3 1988

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Videos

Eyes on the Prize
Award wining documentary using interviews and historical footage covering the major events of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954-1985.
All Power to the People
Stream online. Documentary with rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists from the Civil Rights Movement.
Many Rivers to Cross
In the Library Media Collection
Call number HQ76.3.U5 2005

Race Relations in Crisis, 1963

1963 discussion on race relations in America with civil rights leaders Malcolm X, Wyatt Tee Walker, Alan Morrison and James Farmer.

Source: PBS Video

On the web

Seattle Black Panther Party History & Memory Project
Project from the University of Washington with oral histories, photographs, newspaper headlines, and documents.
Civil Rights Resource Guide
Collection of websites from the Library of Congress, linking to oral histories, photographs, videos and other documentation
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Collection of individual accounts and oral histories from those who participated in all levels of the Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Digital Library
The King Center - Digital Archive
Links to thousands of documents about Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as a complete transcript of the MLK assassination conspiracy trial.
Malcolm X Project at Columbia University
SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
History and Audio Recordings
Studs Terkel: Readings from Race
Interviews with cross-section of Americans about their views on race, including Mamie Mobley, mother of 14-year old Emmett Till who was killed in a racial incident in Mississippi.
Television News of the Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)
Films from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia, plus government records and oral histories. From the University of Virginia
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Education & Research Institute
Digital collection of Dr. King's papers, speeches, and documents, along with a chronology, encyclopedia and news
African Americans and Seattle's civil rights history
Project from UW exploring the civil rights activism of African Americans in the Pacific Northwest; includes oral histories, research reports, newspaper reports, photographic collections, maps, historical documents.
Many Rivers to Cross
PBS series on African American history with an excellent selection of videos
Eyes on the Prize
Website from the documentary series