Know Your Rights: A Civil Rights Resource Guide
In honor of...
Legacy: Civil Rights At 60
FY 2024 Juried Exhibition Grant Exhibition
January 12 to March 1
Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5:30 pm
200 I (Eye) Street Gallery SE
Read the 1964 Civil Rights Act in full here or view the original document
DC Civil Rights History:
- DC Office of Planning/Historic Preservation Office 20th Century African American Civil Rights Tour of Washington, D.C.
- The Modern Civil Rights Movement in the National Capital Area (National Park Service)
- United States Civil Rights Trail
- March On: Rustin – A Free Audio Walking Tour (Trust for the National Mall)
DC Public Library Resources:
- Register for a Library Card
- Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement
- The People’s Archive
DC Resources for Civil Rights Advocacy:
- DC Office of Human Rights
- Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia Public Advocacy Division
- Cause IQ lit of Washington DC civil rights organizations
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), DC Chapter
- DC Vote
- DC Justice Lab
- Justice Policy Institute
- Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University
- United States Commission on Civil Rights
Civil Rights Reading Lists and K-12 teaching guides:
- American Federation of Teachers Civil Rights Movement: Lesson Plans and Resources
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom Library of Congress Resource Guide
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom Library of Congress Legal Timeline
- Crucial Martin Luther King Jr. Reading/Listening List Curated by Daughter, Bernice King
- ICivics Civil Rights Act of 1964 lesson plan
- Medgar Evers College Department of Public Administration Civil Rights Reading List
- Social Justice Books Elementary Civil Rights Teaching List
- Southern Poverty Law Center Learning for Justice Resource: Teaching the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Videos:
- “1964: The Fight for a Right” full documentary (Mississippi Public Broadcasting)
- Civil Rights: An American Experience Collection (PBS)
- The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 Explained (MSNBC)
- From the archives: Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law (CBS News)
- MLK: The Other America, 1967 speech at Stanford
- Passage of the Civil Rights Act (PBS Learning Media)