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This was a collaborative project to design a research guide for undergraduate students researching the 1960's Civil Rights Movement. The guide itself lives here: http://sferrari.org/si647rg/websites/ But this is a poster that I developed to showcase our work for an exposition showcasing projects by students at the University of Michigan's School of Information. In a field of apps and wearable prototypes I wanted to demonstrate that library science is still doing good work and utilizes many of the same principles of UX work.
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1960s Civil Rights Research Guide
Sebastian Ferrari, Amy Lazet, Kristen Reid, and Jackie Wolf
General Reference Sources Books Journals Audiovisual Archival Collections Websites Newspapers
This map of the U.S. has labeled pinpoints, each of which represents a
major event in the Civil Rights Movement, including sit-ins,
desegregations, and assassinations.
Major Civil Rights Events, 1954-1968 Map
The story of how black students and the black
community were able to stand up against the power of an Ivy League institution despite the violent opposition from both
fellow students and the police.
Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student
Power in the Late 1960s by Stefan M. Bradley
Photo courtesy of Maps.com
Photo courtesy of Lee Pearcy “Harlem supporters marching up Amsterdam Avenue, April 1968
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission Intended to prevent discrimination, the Commission was
established in 1963 to conduct educational programs that promote voluntary compliance with civil rights laws and investigate and
resolve discrimination complaints. The annual reports summarize the activities of the Commission and the Department of Civil Rights
for each year. This is a good resource for students looking to investigate the Civil Rights Movement more locally in Michigan.
Photo courtesy of Michigan.gov
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years
The seminal and most comprehensive documentary on the Civil Rights Movement, Eyes on the Prize, aired on PBS in 1987.
Photo courtesy of PBS.org
Housed at Special Collections in the Hatcher Library, the Labadie Collection
focuses on providing artifacts and documentation related to social protest
movements, ranging from the nineteenth century to the present.
Labadie Collection
The King Center for Nonviolent Social Change provides a wonderful digital archive of documents associated with King.
This incredible source provides a rich, factual context for King’s life by presenting papers both written by and written
to King.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Center
Photo courtesy of The King Center
Historical Newspapers
These databases allow you to search through historical newspapers for primary sources–a contemporary account of the Civil Rights
Movement.
Photo courtesy of The Detroit News
This guide is intended to provide a starting point for University of Michigan undergraduates in their research. Although this guide focuses on civil rights in the 1960s, this decade is by no means either the start or end point for civil rights efforts, which extend back to the Reconstruction Period in the South following the Civil War and continue to this day, albeit in a variety of forms. While numerous efforts for equality occurred since the mid-nineteenth century, it was the events of the 1950s, such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the refusal of Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a city bus (also 1954), that precipitated the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
