For Whom the Bell Tolls ....
Civil Rights Unit
SWAS 8th grade
Tefft Middle School

Purpose: You will be able to apply your knowledge of the constitution and Civil Rights Movement to current issues and controversies as you determine the status of civl rights and liberties today!
 
 

•  A series of news articles, and photographs chronicling the civil rights movement in the United States.

• American Policy Center: View information and articles on issues surrounding American civil rights.

• Center for Democracy: Provides information about civil rights, current legislation, and news on civil rights in the United States.

• Civil Rights - Law and History: A brief report on the history of African Americans since abolition of slavery. It explains African American history and struggles for civil rights.

• Constitutional Rights Foundation: Provides information about civil rights and civil rights publications.

• A photographic tour of historical locations, along with a description of their importance in the civil rights movement.

•  Thiswebsite gives a chronological report of a student bus tour and the Civil Rights Movement.

• General Background Links
http://www.aclu.org/index.html
http://www.ceousa.org/index.html
http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/voices.htm
• This is a pictorial time line of the American civil rights movement.

Diversity
How has the Civil Rights Movement impacted the status of civil rights today for both the individual and society at large?

Gender Issues

• http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/public/wb_pubs/wagegap2.htm
• http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/proj/ge/
• http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/GenderIssues/
• http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed372345.html
• http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d136.html
• http://www.rochester.edu/College/WST/
• http://www.takeourdaughterstowork.org

Women in the Work Force

• http://www.cdinet.com/womensrights/support.html
• http://www.nowldef.org/html/issues/work/bwestart.shtml
• http://www.businessinsightjapan.com/1999/October/depopulation.htm
• http://www.osha.gov/media/oshnews/apr98/osha98179.html
• http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/10step71.htm
• http://www.hayboo.com/briefing/mears1.htm
• http://www.insiderviews.com/
• http://www.health.wa.gov.au/womenintheworkplace/
• http://www.equalrights.org/Facts/wwrkstat.htm
• http://www2.whirlpool.com/html/corp/foundation/women1b.htm
• http://www.cpsr.org/dox/program/gender/index.html
• http://www.student.virginia.edu/~uvanow/work.html
• http://www.thehistorynet.com/WomensHistory/articles/19967_text.htm
• http://www.search.com/click?sl,marin.1.channel.507-4.1.1.%22women+in+the+workplace%22.0,http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ethehistorynet%2Ecom%2FWomensHistory%2Farticles%2F19964_cover%2Ehtm
• http://www.aflcio.org/women/
• http://www3.serve.com/zone/everyone/workplac.html
• http://www.sexualharassmentpolicy.com/default.htm

• http://www.abusedmen.com/
• http://www.acfc.org/
• http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/695_men.html
• http://www.fact.on.ca/
• http://themenscenter.com/
• http://www.crosswinds.net/~fathersforlife/manlness.htm
• http://vaxxine.com/rational/anarchist/gender.html
• http://www.peak.org/~jedwards/minority.htm
• http://www.ncfm.org
• http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9704/20/04200070.htm
• http://www.thirdagewellness.com/
• http://www.patriarchy.com

Women in the Military

• http://www.lsu.edu/guests/wwwlawl/biblio/tailhook.htm
• http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/970505/nation.ofensive_mane.html
• http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/GovernmentPolitics/Military/tailhook-91

suffrage

• http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/constitution/19th/19th.html
• http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/Vote/75-suffragists.html
• http://www.digitalsojourn.org/speech.html
• http://www.pbs.org/onewoman/suffrage.html
• http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/side/wsffrg.html
• http://www.inet.co.th/org/gaatw/
• http://www.suffragist.com/
• http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/history.html
• http://www.graceproducts.com/anthony/move.html
• http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/suffrage/home.htm
• http://www.legacy98.org/
• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html
• http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/index.html?body=resources.html
• http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html
• http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/perfect.html
• http://library.advanced.org/10320/Truth.htm
• http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/
• http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/dubois/classes/995/98F
• http://www.feminist.com/suffrage.htm
• http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/1900_09.htm
• http://www.suffragist.com/timeline.htm
• http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
• http://www.noho.com/sojourner/whowas.html
• http://www1.theatlantic.com/issues/03sep/0309suffrage.htm
• http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~jrexford/misc/speeches/naomi.html
• http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
• http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/index.html
• http://www.umsl.edu/services/library/womenstudies/clubs.htm
• http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~sorensen/suff.html
• http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/Vote.html
• http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman/home.html
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/076_vfw.html

• http://www.bookwire.com/hmr/Review/silko.html
• http://www.multiracial.com
• http://www.princeton.edu/~bnsimon/race.html
• http://www.lbbs.org/ZMag/articles/mrtinez2.htm

Affirmative Action

• http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/
• http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/
• http://fedlaw.gsa.gov:80/legal6.htm
• http://www.law.harvard.edu/groups/civilrights/
• http://www.civilrights.org/index_active.html
• http://www.rand.org/centers/icj/
• http://www.ed.gov/offices/OCR/

•  http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/5.17/990827-racism.html
•  http://www.80-20initiative.net/
•  http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang/aware.htm
•  http://www.aafe.org/
•  http://www.commondreams.org/views/082400-103.htm
•  http://www.asianlawcaucus.org/
• http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/policy/
• http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/memorial.html
• http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/memorial.html
• http://past.thenation.com/issue/970331/0331nash.htm

Latin American Civil Rights

• http://www.savannahmorningnews.com/smn/stories/051599/ACCmigranthealth.html
• http://www.law.harvard.edu/groups/civilrights/papers/bilingual/bilingual.html
• http://www.stanford.edu/group/SCCR/oral.html
• http://www.lulac.org/Welcome.html
• http://www.sfsu.edu/~cecipp/cesar_chavez/chavezhome.htm

African American Civil Rights

• http://www.ghgcorp.com/hollaway/civil.htm
• http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~moritz/aares.html
• http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/1/96.01.01.x.html
• http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/robinson/robmain.html
• http://www.efn.org/~chinosol/panth
• http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/students/pjaques/etext/acoli-hist-bpp.html
• http://webusers.anet-stl.com/~civil/civilrightsnewsfolder.html
• http://www.ghgcorp.com/hollaway/civil.htm
• http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/july97/race_7-3.html
• http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/GenderIssues/WomenInWorkforce/BlackEconStatus/fulltext
• http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=rosaParks
• http://www.centralhigh57.org/
• http://socsci.colorado.edu/%7Ejonesem/montgomery.html
• http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0455_Operation_Rescue__Ci.html
• http://www.afroam.org/history/Panthers/panther-lead.html
• http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/
• http://www.mecca.org/~crights/cyber.html
• http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/index.htm

• http://www.ashland.edu/ashbrook/publicat/oped/schramm2.html
• http://earnestman.tripod.com/gopher://alpha1.csd.uwm.edu:70/00/UWM%20Information/Native%20American%20Net%20Server/General%20Text%20Files/Anti-Indian%20Movement%20on%20the%20Tribal%20Frontier
• http://www.ael.org/eric/digests/edorc956.htm
• http://aises.uthscsa.edu/alq/al.html
• http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/2168
• http://www.artswire.org/~studio/chili/
• http://www.si.edu/i%2bd/language.html
• http://www.colorado.edu/StudentGroups/tsc/deep.html
• http://www.ableza.org/dodont.html
• http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/miscpubs/crawford/
• http://www.dickshovel.com/firstnations.html
• http://www.gn.apc.org/inquirer/frozen.html
• http://www2.dgsys.com/~honor/
• http://www.alphacdc.com/treaty/berry_is.html
• http://www.honorearth.com/infonet/overview/domination.html
• http://www.itcn.org/icwa/
• http://www.iwchildren.org/genocide/shame1.htm
• http://emayzine.com/lectures/indian.htm
• http://www.ratical.com/ratville/KC.html
• http://www.hanksville.org/sand/
• http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/MK/main.html
• http://home.att.net/~Numberup/Nativeissues.htm
• http://www.alphacdc.com/sapadawn/
• http://www.africa2000.com/BNDX/BAO320.htm
• http://brooks.simplenet.com/
• http://www.ndsn.org/MAYJUN97/PEYOTE.html
• http://www.religioustolerance.org/nataspir.htm
• http://members.aol.com/gwolf15020/index.htm
• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4844/intgrstd.html
• http://www.YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net/paths.html
• http://www.planet-peace.org/archive/index.html
• http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/repatriation/repat.htm
• http://www.lib.uconn.edu/ArchNet/Topical/Ethno/Courant/
• http://iisd1.iisd.ca/50comm/commdb/desc/d09.htm
• http://www.ocregister.com/liberty/1997/1297/120897/edit1.html

Anti Semitism

• http://wysiwyg://4/http://education.indiana.edu/~socialst/holocaust.html
• http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/
• http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/english/20.html
• http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/antiholo/summanti.html
• http://www.jomiller.com/personal/violence.html
• http://www.adl.org/

• http://www.nonline.com/procon/main_aug14.htm
• http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/prayer.html
• http://www.aclu.org/library/aaprayer.html
• http://www.concentric.net/~Dannemyr/
• http://www.religioustolerance.org/ps_pray.htm
• http://religiousfreedom.house.gov/
• http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/church-state/prayer.html
• http://www.fac.org/religion/spbib.htm
• http://cwfa.org/library/freedom/2000-09_pp_school-prayer.shtml
• http://www.fac.org/publicat/cground/ch12_1.html

Religion in Schools

• http://www.fac.org/publicat/cground/default.html
• http://www.iwchildren.org/eagle1.htm
• http://users.erols.com/bjcpa/pubs/holid.html
• http://www.fac.org/publicat/parents/parents.htm

• http://www.isrp.org/
• http://www.aclj.org/
• http://www.becketfund.org/
• http://www.law.emory.edu/FOCAL/rel.html
• http://www.freedomforum.org/religion/welcome.asp
• http://www.lc.org/
• http://www.religious-freedom.org/
• http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/
• http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/nfs-regs/rfra-act.html
• http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.relig.liberty.html

Technology
How have advances in technology both augmented and/or diminished our civil rights today, and where are we headed?

Affimative action:
 http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872956.html
Inventions

•  http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004638.html
• http://www.discover.com/recent_issue/index.html
• http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004637.html
• http://www.howstuffworks.com/hybrid-car.htm

Medical Advances:

•  http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/intro_7.html
•  http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/intro_7.html
• http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-98-99/001-hzrd.htm

• http://slate.msn.com/CriticalMass/97-03-13/CriticalMass.asp
•  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alexboko/css/bioclonefrm.html
•  http://www.humancloning.org/
•  http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/tan.htm
•  http://www.unesco.org/ibc/uk/genome/
•  http://www.all.org/abac/cloning.htm
•  http://www.uwc.edu/fonddulac/faculty/rrigteri/biomed.htm#genetics
•  http://www.probe.org/docs/humclon2.html
• http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mchorost/e306/been/cloning.htm
• http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethic/whoownslife/keyissues.html
• http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethic/02/GeneticsEthicsInsurance.shtml#worries
• http://www.ncgr.org/gpi/odyssey/cloning/poclo.html
•  http://www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/index.html
•  http://www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/index.html
•  http://www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/index.html
•  http://www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/index.html

Global Warming-

•  http://www.api.org/globalclimate/
• http://www.enviroweb.org/edf/
• http://www.cutter.com/osir/index.html

Water quality:

• watersheds; http://www.epa.gov/surf3/locate/
• chemical spills river- http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9-2-95/guyana.html
• pesticides-http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/ag442.html
•  acid rain: http://www.ec.gc.ca/acidrain/index.html
• environmental law: http://www.ciel.org/

Environmental Rights Affects Human Rights

•  http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/apr98/16_44_044.html
•  http://www.epa.gov/civilrights/
•  http://www.tnews.com/text/sugar_loaf.html
•  http://www.saep.org/forDB/forDB99/forDB9904/AIRPOLUTIONuslitiondumpingCT990409.html
• http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/apr98/16_44_044.html
•  http://www.appvoices.org/

Expression
How do you maintain indvidual rights and freedoms without compromising society as a whole?

Freedom of Expression

• http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/chronicl...
• http://www.freedomofexpression.com/ http://www.faife.dk/
• http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~agraham/flaher14.h...
• http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/safe/home.html

• http://www.ncvc.org/stats/hc.htm
• http://www.state.ct.us/dps/HateCrimeReporting.htm
• http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hatecm.htm#
• http://www.civilrights.org/crlibrary/issues/hate_crimes/statistics
• http://www.adl.org/issue_government/statistics_about_hate_crimes.html
• http://www.umpd.umd.edu/spa/reports/rresd.htm

• http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,117330+18,00.html
• http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/techstuf/fifties/namecall.html
• http://www.parascope.com/ds/articles/stalin.htm
• http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ383.HTM
• http://www.hartford-hwp.com/cp-usa/archives/96-12-21-2.html
• http://i2i.org/SuptDocs/Crime/Protecting_the_Second_Amendment_from_Civil_Abuse.htm
• http://www.cjr.org/year/96/1/60minutes.asp
• http://www.uis.edu/~fox/papers/law-against.html
• http://www.usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/media/unfetter/press08.htm
• http://www.fac.org/fanews/fan0297/cover.htm

Censorship:

• http://www.well.com/user/freedom
• http://www.rcfp.org/handbook/viewpage.cgi
• http://www.kindone.com/protest.html
• http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html
• http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wbutler/kristol.html
• http://www.oneworld.org/index_oc
• http://www.eff.org/pub/Groups/BCFE/bcfenatl.html

Freedom of Information

• http://www.americanpolicy.org/
• http://www.americanpolicy.org/priv/main.htm
• http://www.americanpolicy.org/priv/privarticles.htm
• http://www.acusd.edu/~prc/
• http://www.consumer.net/dmnews.asp
• http://www.cdt.org/
•  http://www.nhdd.com/hot/wh31.htm
• http://www.cptech.org/privacy/
• http://www.epic.org/privacy/medical/
• http://www.netreach.net/~wmanning/privacy.htm

• http://www.rtk.net/
• http://www.aclu.org/privacy/
• http://www.grconnect.com/
• http://www.fas.org/sgp/
• http://www.cdc.gov/od/foia/foi.htm
• http://public.scott.af.mil/375aw/foia/
• http://www.accessreports.com/
• http://www.aclu.org/library/foia.html
• http://www.cdc.gov/od/foia/foi.htm
• http://www.epic.org/open_gov/
• http://www.comlaw.utas.edu.au/law/foi/bookmarks/FOI_index.html

Internet Censorship Issues

• http://www.internetcensorship.com/
• http://libertus.net/
• http://www.ozemail.com.au/~firstpr/contreg/
• http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990609/news/specials/news1.html
• http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990609/news/news1.html
• http://www.clark.net/pub/rothman/exon.htm
• http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1483/blue.html
• http://www.fmew.com/archive/censor/
• http://www.spectacle.org/cs/
• http://www.eff.org/CAF/
• http://www.cyber-rights.org/
• http://orathost.cfa.ilstu.edu/~guither/cyber.html
• http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Issues_and_Causes/Civil_Rights/Censorship/Internet_Censorship/Declaration_of_Independence_of_Cyberspace/
• http://www.hrw.org/advocacy/internet/
• http://www.eff.org/CAF/cafuiuc.html
• http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1853/
• http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/hp.html

Big Brother

• http://www.ssbb.com/digital.html
• http://www.ari.net/dfc
• http://pw2.netcom.com/~simmonmt/bbdb/index.html
• http://www.bigbrothersurveillance.net/

Death Penalty

•  http://www.execpc.com/logos/capital.html
• http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~fdc4k/brinkers.html
• http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/DP.html
• http://ethics.acusd.edu/Mill.html
• http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/5258/deathdet.htm
• http://www.essential.org/dpic/
• http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/death/history.html#recent
• http://pages.prodigy.com/DC/vortex/dp.html
• http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/LEO_SUMD.HTM
• http://www.aclu.org/issues/death/hmdp.html
• http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/dp.html
• http://www.smu.edu/~deathpen/
• http://w1.480.telia.com/~u48003561/deathrow.htm
• http://www.friends-for-life.demon.co.uk/
• http://www.bway.net/~halsall/radcath/prejean1.html
• http://www.princeton.edu/~progrev/94-95/feb95mk.html
• http://www.yvesbarbero.com/penalty.htm
• http://www.nadp.inetnebr.com/
• http://www.otse.org/
• http://www.prisonactivist.org/death-penalty/ .
• http://www.scn.org/activism/wcadp/
• http://208.21.248.155/subjects/columns/mlly704.html

Surveilence & Legal Rights

• http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/osc/
• http://www.law.cornell.edu:80/topics/civil_rights.html
• http://www.nowldef.org/
• http://www.discriminationattorney.com/index.html
• http://www.rand.org/centers/icj/

Miranda Rights

• http://www.emergency.com/miranda.htm
• http://www.fbi.gov/library/leb/1997/mar976.htm
• http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=384&invol=436
• http://www.hip-hop.com/section801/miranda.html
• http://www.emergency.com/miranda.htm
• http://www.courttv.com/legalhelp/lawguide/criminal/91.html

Court Cases & Statistics

• http://www.brennancenter.org/
• http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/172857.pdf
• http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/teens.htm#vage
• http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/iscs99.htm
• http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/children.htm#kidsrts
• http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/cpd.nsf/pages/JJRCHP1
• http://www.ncjrs.org/jjhome.htm
• http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/nationalreport99/toc.html
• http://ncjfcj.unr.edu/homepage/g1.html
• http://hatch.senate.gov/statistics.html
• http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/djj/html/facts.html
• ttp://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/
• http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/ARRESTS.html

DNA evidence

• http://www.biology.washington.edu/fingerprint/dnaintro.html
• http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/forenspt.html
• http://www.genelex.com/book.html.
• http://www.bccla.org/positions/privacy/94dna.html
• http://www.scientific.org/tutorials/articles/riley/riley.html
• http://www.benecke.com/natwiss.html
• http://darwin.apnet.com/inscight/10081997/grapha.htm
• http://forensicdna.com/Literature.htm
• http://www.promega.com/geneticidentity/glossary.html
• http://hope-dna.com/
• http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/NM/interview_dr_bruce_weir.html
• http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/dna/welcome.html
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/
• http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/%7Ejbrown/pcr.html

Teen Laws

• http://www.saferoads.org/facts/21drink.html
• http://www.aclu-or.org/kid.html
• http://www.aclu.org/news/n080497a.html
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• http://www.courttv.com/teens/programs/yt/curfew/
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