Archived: 1960's US History (Aguiar, Baum)

A free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. Some entries have full-text documents, some have links to online sources, others point to subscription databases that Geneseo does not have access to.

This web page organized by Fordham University provides links to web pages with primary sources from modern European, American, and Latin American history, as well as a significant amount of material pertinent to world cultures and global studies.

Official United Nations documentation. The OD System mainly contains parliamentary documents. Coverage beginning in 1993, but older documents are being added daily.

From the Library of Congress' online exhibit. Includes primary source images as well as descriptions of events and actions that were key to this movement.

Check the resources listed under "20th Century" to find out more about places and events related to making sure all Americans could vote.

Information about Atlanta during the 1960's from the Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education

Takes you to main pages of this museum's website. Check out the resources, especially in multimedia, under the Learn tab.

Official Nation Park service website for the National Historic Site - Brown v Board of Education National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

Mississippi was a focal point in the struggle for civil rights in America, and Hattiesburg, home of The University of Southern Mississippi, had the largest and most successful Freedom Summer project in 1964. The civil rights materials collected at the University document a local history with truly national significance.

Information (including links and primary sources) related to the Sit-ins in Greensboro, NC.

Online exhibit about civil rights from the National Archives.

Testimony of John Lewis from a hearing resulting from the March 7, 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery in support of voting rights. From the US National Archives.

An interactive website devoted to what could be considered the "launch of the civil rights movement"

"By providing access to the historical record of this important federal agency, the Thurgood Marshall Law Library [offers] scholars an opportunity to examine the efforts of the Commission more closely. A partnership of the United States Government Printing Office, The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library."

Includes multimedia, transcripts, images, timelines and more.

Online exhibition from the NYPL that tells much about this controversial American.

Stanford's MLK Jr. center has links to primary sources of Kings work and life. Links to documents related to popular topics are listed here.

Images from the Library of Congress

Information on the process of integrating schools from Lisa Cozzens, a high school teacher. Last modified June 1998.

Digital images and more from the Digital Library of Georgia

WGBH American Experience & PBS website to accompany the May 2011 television program

COINTELPRO is an acronym for a series of FBI counterintelligence programs designed to neutralize political dissidents. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO's of 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against radical political organizations

"Excerpts from audio recording of the President’s recollections of discussions held during the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 18, 1962" From the US National Archives

"Transcript of Lady Bird Johnson’s audio diary from November 22, 1963, page 1" from the National Archives

Information and sources regarding the rally held in 1967.

from LBJ . WGBH American Experience | PBS

from WGBH American Experience | PBS with links to further interviews, timeline, and additional resources.

Still frames from televised interview of Denton, May 2, 1966 and quotations from the interview from the US National Archives

Resources on "the 1969-70 trial of seven radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago."

Diary entries of President Johnson from 1963 - 1969

Information on the Watergate scandal from the Ford Library Museum.

Film and information from Independent Lens | PBS

Primary source text of the document for which SDS initially identified.

from the UK

Primary source documents are available here.

Web site to accompany a documentary on American History

Provides information about the 30 year history of this movement.

Information about the American Indian Movement. The site provide information on a variety of issues related to their struggles.

New York Public Library's online exhibit on the Gay Liberation Movement. Don't just read the first page, but investigate the links to the left as well.

From a WGBH American Experience are these great pages of resources.

Video worth watching. American Experience . WGBH | PBS

from the PBS timeline of the American Masters series "The American Novel."

from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian museum

Website for the Motown Museum in Detroit, MI

from LIFE at Woodstock, 1969 | LIFE.com

From Poets.org

Online New York Times articles by and about this founding 1960's feminist.

from the National Organization of Women, Washington DC

adopted at the 1967 national conference of the National Organization for Women