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“All Deliberate Speed”From: Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics
“Birmingham Manifesto”From: Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics
“Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom,” by Martin Luther King Jr., 1966 From: Making Freedom: African Americans in U.S. History. Sourcebook 5
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN PUTS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (1966)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
THE PROPONENTS OF BLACK POWER REJECT THE GRADUAL APPROACH TO CIVIL RIGHTS (1967)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
RALPH ABERNATHY ON THE DECLINE OF THE SCLC AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (CIRCA 1968)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
12 : MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE From: Black and Right
A DISSENTING OPINION IN THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE CASES (1873)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
The Emmett Till Murder: The Civil Rights Movement BeginsFrom: Famous American Crimes and Trials
JAMES RAPIER ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL (1875)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT (1875)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
19 : FAMILY VALUES VS. HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS: TRADITION COLLIDES WITH AN ELITE SOCIAL TIDE From: Black and Right
A DISSENTING OPINION IN PLESSY V. FERGUSON (1896)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
STATE OF MISSOURI EX REL. GAINES V. CANADA (1938)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
SMITH V. ALLWRIGHT (1944)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
SIPUEL V. BOARD OF REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA ET AL. (1948)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
SWEATT V. PAINTER (1950)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION (1954)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
“WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED,” ADDENDUM TO BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION (1955)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
83.: President’s Committee on Civil Rights, Excerpt from “To Secure These Rights” (1947)From: 100 Key Documents in American Democracy
84.: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)From: 100 Key Documents in American Democracy
BOYNTON v. VIRGINIA (1960)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT (1964)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
AFrom: Historical Dictionary of the 1970s
A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, American Indian Activism, and the Occupation of Alcatraz From: American Indians in American History, 1870–2001
Abernathy, Ralph David (1926–1990)From: The Jim Crow Encyclopedia
Abrams v. JohnsonFrom: Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics
ACCUSED, RIGHTS OF THEFrom: Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties [Three Volumes]
ACTION From: African American Quotations
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 515 U.S. 200 (1995)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
Adderly v. Florida, 385 U.S. 39 (1966)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION From: Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education
Albany, Georgia, Sit-InFrom: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, 422 U.S. 405 (1975) From: Affirmative Action
Albermarle Paper Co. v. MoodyFrom: Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics
Aldridge v. United States, 283 U.S. 308 (1931)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of EducationFrom: Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 396 U.S. 1218 (1969)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
Allen v. Board of ElectionsFrom: Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics
Allen v. State Board of Elections, 393 U.S. 544 (1968)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
Alston v. Board of Education of the City of Norfolk, 112 F.2d 992 (4th Cir., 1940)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
American Tobacco Company v. PattersonFrom: Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics
Anthony v. Marshall County Board of Education, 409 F.2d 1287 (5th Cir., 1969)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
Anti-Lynching LegislationFrom: Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics
ARIZONA.From: Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
ARIZONA.From: The Mexican American Experience
Arnold v. North Carolina, 376 U.S. 773 (1964)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
Avery v. Georgia, 345 U.S. 559 (1953)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
Ayers Case, 112 S. Ct. 2727 (1992)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
Bailey v. Alabama, 219 U.S. 219 (1911)From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights