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Usborne, publisher of the British edition, posted a wonderful page of resources on the 1960s, Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement

The Civil Rights Movement
http://www.pbs.org/black-
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/
Listen/see Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech, August 1963
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/resources/article/video_dr_martin_luther_king_jr_i_have_a_dream_speech/
Other Links
https://thekingcenter.org/
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/
https://www.pbs.org/show/
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
https://kids.britannica.com/
https://www.archives.gov/
The March on Washington, August 28, 1963
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/marchonwashington.html
Told moments before he stepped on stage that Martin Luther King had been assassinated, Bobby Kennedy spoke these words “off the cuff.” The city of Indianapolis was one of the few cities that stayed calm that night as elsewhere across the United States riots of protest and grief erupted. Hear and see:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rfkonmlkdeath.html
1960s history timeline
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0903597.html
The Year 1968
https://www.smithsonianmag.
https://www.theatlantic.com/
https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/
President John Kennedy
http://www.jfklibrary.org/
http://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/gallery.htm
JFK’s inauguration speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmiOEk59n8&feature=related
Speaking to the nation on the Cuban missile crisis:
https://www.jfklibrary.
Speaking to the nation on the integration of the University of Alabama:
https://www.
Senator Bobby Kennedy
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
https://www.jfklibrary.org/
President Lyndon Baines Johnson
https://www.history.com/
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_
The Vietnam War
https://spartacus-educational.
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/
Twiggy
https://womens-
https://www.britannica.com/
