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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 Begins
From: 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

A
From: 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. Johnson
From: Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics

ACCUSED, RIGHTS OF THE
From: 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-In
From: 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. Moody
From: 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 Education
From: 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 Elections
From: 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. Patterson
From: 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 Legislation
From: 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