Civil Rights Law - Directory of Online Resources

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U.S. Dept. of Justice - Civil Rights Division

U.S. Department of Labor

• Civil Rights Center (CRC)

Brown v. Board of Education - see our separate Brown v. Board of Education page.

Censored: Wielding the Red Pen
"This exhibition hopes not so much to judge censors and censorship but instead to provoke questions."
Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library

Civilrights.org - (dead link)
"...a joint project of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference Education Fund...The goal of civilrights.org is to recruit, educate and mobilize individuals of good conscience in the ongoing struggle for equal opportunity."

Conscience and the Constitution
" In World War II, a handful of young Americans refused to be drafted from an American concentration camp. They were ready to fight for their country, but not before the government restored their rights as U.S. citizens and released their families from camp. It was a classic example of civil disobedience -- but the government prosecuted them as criminals and Japanese American leaders and veterans ostracized them as traitors. CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION delves into the heart of the Japanese American conscience and a controversy that continues today. Experience the choice faced by any group when confronted by mass injustice -- whether to comply or to resist."
PBS Online

The Disability Rights Movement
"Kiosk" sections include: The Movement ; Dissent ; Technology ; Touchable Objects ; Self Definition ; Mobility ; The ADA ; Parents Organize ; Hey Kids!.
- National Museum of American History exhibit

Gay Marriage - See our separate Gay Marriage Resource page.

LawMoose World Legal Resource Center

• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Lambda Legal
"...is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered, and people with HIV or AIDS through impact litigation, education, and public policy work."

National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy

Taking Back America: USA Patriot Act and Civil Liberties
Information and Resources
"This site was created to accompany panel discussion by faculty and librarians on dangers the Patriot Act poses to the American democratic experiment offered as part of the University of Washington's event, Time of Reflection: The War in Iraq."
Sections include: USA Patriot Act ; USA Patriot Act II ; Interpretations & Analysis ; Libraries & the USA Patriot Act ; Universities & the USA Patriot Act ; Government Documents ; Finding Additional Information.
- University of Washington Libraries

Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression

U.S. Government Information: Affirmative Action and Civil Rights
University Libraries Government Publications, University of Colorado, Boulder
Maintained by Margaret M. Jobe

University of Maryland - Thurgood Marshall Law Library

• Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
  "By providing access to the historical record of this important Federal Agency the Thurgood Marshall Law Library will offer scholars an opportunity to examine the efforts of the Commission more closely."

See also our African American History - Civil Rights Movement page.

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