Links To Learning More

Flying South

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-culture/explore/civil-rights-movement/

https://www.splcenter.org/civil-rights-memorial?gclid=CjwKCAjwvOHzBRBoEiwA48i6AvfQzgYfm0iao2tyfrsUAi5jDonYH7VvfZWtPnYp-PBl4ODSjE5qFBoCR9EQAvD_BwE

https://www.npca.org/articles/2020-mississippi-reckoning?s_src=g_grants_ads&gclid=CjwKCAjwvOHzBRBoEiwA48i6Am9gzPHpZztpy7lWT0JbxwbnkguVa55Ir9yO94rVS2HSoGxCw4zslBoCGR4QAvD_BwE

https://www.adl.org/what-we-do/discrimination/racial-justice?gclid=CjwKCAjwvOHzBRBoEiwA48i6Ahmvxmm332PCFH_W4tZ3RmC0w2o_gnbkUqRcdNs_ajzZ6Nf-G-Zz8hoCXWEQAvD_BwE

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/about-dr-king/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/chasing-the-dream/stories/documentaries-mlk-day/

https://www.pbs.org/show/black-america-mlk-and-still-i-rise/

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

 

https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Civil-Rights-Act/609443

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/07/02/day-history-president-lyndon-b-johnson-signed-civil-rights-act-1964

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/summer/civil-rights-act-1.htm

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.com/history/timeline-seismic-180967503/

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/01/50-years-ago-in-photos-a-look-back-at-1968/550208/

https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/us/1968-important-events/index.html

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.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/cuban-missile-crisis

Speaking to the nation on the integration of the University of Alabama:

https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/BMPP/020/BMPP-020-005

Senator Bobby Kennedy

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/kennedys-bio-robert-francis/

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/the-kennedy-family/robert-f-kennedy

President Lyndon Baines Johnson

http://www.lbjlibrary.org/

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/lyndon-b-johnson

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html

The Vietnam War

https://spartacus-educational.com/VietnamWar.htm

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam-war/home/

Twiggy

https://womens-fashion.lovetoknow.com/Twiggy_Fashion_1960s

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Twiggy-British-fashion-model