| Martin Luther King, Jr. & Civil Rights Movement |
Slavery / Underground Railroad
Slavery
  • SlaveVoyages.org
  • Lest We Forget Museum of Slavery | America's Black Holocaust Museum |
  • Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 (Primary source from the Library of Congress)
  • Slavery and the Making of America (PBS mini-series)
  • Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (PBS mini-series)
  • Voices of the Slave Trade [National Endowment for the Humanities]
  • Gilder Lehrman Center for the study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition (Especially see Amistad material)
  • Amistad Case (U.S. National Archives)
  • Frederick Douglass Papers (Library of Congress)
  • Black Loyalists | More Black Loyalist History (Loyal to the Crown of England, that is. Fought with the British during the American Revolution.) |
  • Fugitive Slave Acts [History.com] | More Fugitive Slave Acts [Britannica.com] |
  • North American Slave Narratives
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
  • Sojourner Truth Institute | Harriet Tubman | Frederick Douglass |
  • Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
  • I Will Be Heard! Abolitionism in America
    Underground Railroad
  • Underground Railroad [National Parks Service]
  • Underground Railroad & Canada
  • Underground Railroad novel [alternate history / historical fiction National Book Award finalist]
    Juneteenth (June 19, 1865)

  • Biden signs Juneteenth bill, creating new federal holiday commemorating end of slavery in U.S.
    By Kevin Breuninger, CNBC.com | June 17, 2021 9:41 AM EDT UPDATED June 17, 2021 5:29 PM EDT |

  • What's open and closed on Juneteenth? What to know about mail delivery, schools and more
    By Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today | June 17, 2022 2:34 PM ET |

    LOCAL IN-PERSON CELEBRATIONS
    Juneteenth Houston.org | More Juneteenth 2023 Celebrations in the Greater Houston/Harris County area |

    Juneteenth Music Festival (Emancipation Park
    When: Jun. 17 from 3 PM to 10 PM)
    Free admission

    The Birthplace of Juneteenth: Galveston Celebrates Emancipation through Art, Special Events

    Mayor Turner's Annual Acres Homes Juneteenth Parade
    When: Saturday Jun. 17, 2023)

  • The Juneteenth Legacy Project: Absolute Equality for All
  • Juneteenth (Handbook of Texas Online) | Juneteenth | Juneteenth for Kids (America's Library.gov) |
  • Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (PBS) | FreedmensBureau.com |
  • Remembering Jim Crow | Rise and Fall of Jim Crow [PBS series] |
    War (including Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War II, etc.)
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
    Houston Parades:
  • 46th Annual Original MLK Jr. Parade Downtown Houston (Jan. 15, 2024) (Black Heritage Society)
  • 30th Annual MLK Grande Parade in Midtown Houston (Jan. 15, 2024)

  • "...on March 10, 1968—the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King gave his "The Other America" speech to supporters participating in a celebratory "Salute to Freedom," organized by the Local 1199 in New York City. The Local 1199 was a union consisting largely of African Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other people of color."

  • "The Other America" speech, given March 10, 1968 [full text].

  • MLK Day of Service (Jan. 15, 2024) | King Center |
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (District of Columbia)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute (Stanford U.)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Georgia (Atlanta, GA)
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: An Extraordinary Life (Seattle Times) | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the Net |
  • Civil Rights Movement Archive | Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
  • Separate Is Not Equal (Brown v. The Board Of Education) (Smithsonian) |
  • Rosa Parks: How I Fought For Civil Rights (Scholastic.com)
  • FreedomRidersFoundation.org | Sitting for Justice: Woolworth’s Lunch Counter (Smithsonian)|
  • Black Panther Party (History.com) | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) |
  • Malcolm X.com | Malcolm X (History.com) | Malcolm X (Brother Malcolm.net) |
  • Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise [Henry Louis Gates, JR./PBS] | Hutchins Center for African & African American Research (Harvard University) |
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