LibGuides: Antiracism: Social Movements

Civil Rights Movement (Black History in Two Minutes series)

eBooks

Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement

The history of America's civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again. This has relegated many key figures and turning points to the margins, but graphic novels and graphic memoirs present an opportunity to push against the consensus and create a more complete history.

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the United States, the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S. government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism.

Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot

A potent and electrifying critique of today's feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in Black feminism

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

A timely and impassioned exploration of how our society has commodified feminism and continues to systemically shut out women of color.

The Making of Black Lives Matter

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States.

Black Power (Black History in Two Minutes series)

Articles

The Black Power Movement is a Love Story
Time Magazine, February 2023
The CRT of Black Lives Matter
St. Louis University Law Journal, Summer 2022

Black Lives Matter (Crash Course Black American History series)

Videos/Films

Our Films on Demand Platform provides access to the following documentaries:

Making Black America, part 4
Despite the gains of legal desegregation, hour four reveals a fervent desire for Black spaces and institutions that provide a safe place to debate, organize and celebrate. Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores how Black cultural and political movements - from Black Power to Black Twitter - embraced a radical consciousness that championed a new generation. Distributed by PBS Distribution.
Rosa Parks (African Americans Who Left Their Stamp on History series)
Her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in December of 1955, spurred a city-wide boycott and unleashed nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities.
Freedom Summer
On June 21, 1964, civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. A watershed moment in the movement for equality between blacks and whites, the young men’s disappearance riveted the nation.
Black Lives Matter
In 2013 in Sanford, Florida, vigilante George Zimmerman was found not guilty of the murder of 17-year-old African American Trayvon Martin. As a result, the struggle against police violence flared up under the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter and turned into one of the biggest grassroots movements in the United States.

Podcast

Intersectionality Matters!
Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.
Pod Save the People
A unique take on the news, with a special focus on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color.

Web Sites

Civil Rights Digital Library (University of Georgia)
The initiative promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement through its three principal components: 1) a digital video archive of historical news film allowing learners to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the Civil Rights Movement, 2) a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Movement by connecting related digital collections on a national scale, and 3) a learning objects component delivering secondary Web-based resources - such as contextual stories, encyclopedia articles, lesson plans, and activities--to facilitate the use of the video content in the learning process.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
Select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.
Civil Rights Movement (Digital Public Library of America)
We work with a national network of partners to make millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.