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Teaching With Documents:
Court Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and
Memphis Sanitation Workers
Background
The name of Martin Luther King, Jr., is intertwined with the
history of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s
in the United States. The Montgomery bus boycott, the
freedom rides, the Birmingham campaign, the March on
Washington, the Selma march, the Chicago campaign, and the
Memphis boycott are some of the more noteworthy battlefields
where King and his followers--numerous in numbers, humble
and great in name-- fought for the equal rights and equal
justice that the United States Constitution ensures for all
its citizens. King, building on the tradition of civil
disobedience and passive resistance earlier expressed by
Thoreau, Tolstoy, and Gandhi, waged a war of nonviolent
direct action against opposing forces of racism and
prejudice that were embodied in the persons of local police,
mayors, governors, angry citizens, and night riders of the
Ku Klux Klan.
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Timeline:
Through the Centuries
Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Black History
Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to
Black History represents an effort to trace the African
American experience and achievements in the United States
and elsewhere.
http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/timeline?tocId=9433428§ion=252280
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UCLA Library
Collections and Internet Resources in:
African-American Studies
A comprehensive site from UCLA
that presents article databases,
directories, electronic journals, historical information,
statistics and more on African American Studies
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/url/colls/africanamer/ |
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The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University
This Web site includes links to biography, articles,
chronology, and reference sources about King. This site also
has links to key King documents.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/index.htm |
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Africana Studies Resources
An excellent site
from the Brown University
which offers a wide range of links to scholarly resources in
the
field of African American Studies.
It consists links to
literature resources, departments,
directories,
authors, genres, theory, and cultural studies.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Africana_Studies/resources/ |
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The Center for Contemporary Black History
at Columbia University
The Center for Contemporary Black History (CCBH) promotes
the critical study of black history, culture, and politics
within urban America since 1900, with an emphasis on
understanding the central role of black intellectuals and
public leaders in the making of modern society.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/html/ccbh_about.html |
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What's
new: books, articles, www pages
Article Alert
 Roberts,
Walter R. WHAT IS PUBLIC DIPLOMACY? PAST PRACTICES, PRESENT
CONDUCT, POSSIBLE FUTURE (Mediterranean Quarterly, vol. 18, no.
4, Fall 2007, pp. 36-52)
The author, cofounder of the Public Diplomacy Institute at George
Washington University and a former member of the U.S. Advisory
Commission on Public Diplomacy, writes that there is no agreement on
what constitutes public diplomacy. A century ago, the populations of
most countries were all-but-unreachable; no government had any
reason to explain their policies to foreign publics. That changed
with the invention of radio, which the Bolshevik and Nazi regimes
used to great effect. It was the Nazi wartime propaganda activities
in Latin America that prompted the U.S. to initiate cultural and
academic exchanges.
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