Civil Rights and Freedoms
Beginning with the economic depression of the 1930s, movements for civil rights and freedoms developed. These movements took different forms in different contexts: the feminist movement, the struggle against racism or decolonization. One of these contexts should be studied.

Freedom

Habib Bourguiba
Contemporary Africa Database: Habib Bourguiba, Former president of Tunisia
http://people.africadatabase.org/en/person/2174.html

Leopold Sedar Senghor
Contemporary Africa Database: Leopold Sedar Senghor, First elected president of Senegal, writer
http://people.africadatabase.org/en/person/3482.html

Gandhi

The Official Mahatma Gandhi eArchive & Reference Library, Mahatma Gandhi Foundation - India
http://www.mahatma.org.in/index.jsp

M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence
http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/

Martin Luther King

The Martin Luther King Papers Project at Stanford University:

About King

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/

Includes a biography, the King Encyclopedia, interactive timeline, major events.

Popular Requests - Frequently Requested Documents and Audio Clips

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/popular_requests/

Includes transcripts and sound clips of " Letter from Birmingham Jail," March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom address - (" I Have a Dream" speech), and " I've Been To The Mountaintop" King's last speech.

Nelson Mandela
Biography of Nelson Mandela
http://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html

Rigoberta Menchu
Nobel Peace Prize.org - The Nobel Peace Prize 1992 - Rigoberta Menchu
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1992/tum-bio.html

Aung San Suu Kyi
Nobel Peace Prize.org - The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1991/index.html

Simonne Monet-Chartrand

Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
Celebrating Women's Achievements - Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie (1867-1945) Pioneer Quebec Feminist
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/h12-206-e.html

• Asimbonanga (Mandela) , Johnny Clegg song

Lyrics : Asimbonanga (Mandela)
http://inmyafricandream.free.fr/songs/s_asimbonanga_uk.htm

Johnny Clegg Official Website
http://www.johnnyclegg.com/

• Apartheid

South African History Online
http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

Apartheid Museum
http://www.apartheidmuseum.org/start.html

• Apartheid Museum - Educational Resources
  

http://www.apartheidmuseum.org/supplements/INDEX.html

• The Civil Rights Act

Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives - The Civil Rights Act, 1964
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97

CongressLink - A resource for teachers providing information about the US Congress
Major Features of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_civilrights64text.htm

African American Odyssey - Civil Rights Era - Part 2
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html

• The Voting Rights Act

Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives - The Voting Rights Act, 1965
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100

• Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Human Rights in Action
http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/index.asp

This project was designed to help students understand the idea of human rights, gain a sense of themselves as people with dignity and hence with rights, and finally encourage them to act. The site provides interactive and plain text versions of the Declaration of Human Rights.

• The Second Sex (Simone de Beauvoir)

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Simone de Beauvoir
http://www.iep.utm.edu/b/beauvoir.htm

• The Dinner Party (Judy Chicago)

Judy Chicago - Through the Flower Homepage - The Dinner Party - 1974-1979
http://www.judychicago.com/gdinner/frameset_dinner.html

• The Colonizer and the Colonized (Albert Memmi)

Albert Memmi
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Memmi.html

Elsewhere: It is important for students to realize that during the same period there was a movement to deprive European Jews of their freedom and civil rights.

• Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe: Germany - Holocaust: Primary Documents - Wannsee Protocol
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germ/wanneng.html

• Auschwitz concentration camp

Holocaust Cybrary remembering the survivors
http://www.remember.org/

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/

• Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)

Hitler Historical Museum - Writings
http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/

• The Nuremberg Laws

Description of the laws: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - The Nuremberg Race Laws- http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/nlaw.htm

Translation of the document: Contemporary History of Civilization - Hitler's Germany - http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob14.html

• The Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank Museum Amsterdam - The Official Anne Frank House website
http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2

Anne Frank Online, Anne Frank Center USA
http://www.annefrank.com/0_home.htm

• Schindler’s List (film by Steven Spielberg, based on Schindler’s Ark, by Thomas Keneally)

From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -

Bibliographies - Oscar Schindler
http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/schindlr/right.htm

From the Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority:

Aerial Evidence for Schindler’s List
http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob14.html

German rescuers Oskar and Emilie Schindler - Biography, includes a PDF file of Schindler's list compiled in 1945.
http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/righteous/index_schindler.html

• Instructions of the Conseil national de la Résistance to departmental liberation committees, March 15, 1944

Information on the Conseil National de la Resistance (CNR):
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FRcnr.htm