History: Primary Sources for Student Projects

Building upon the achievements of Stanford University's Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, the King Institute supports a broad range of activities illuminating Dr. King's life and the movements he inspired. Includes papers, links, resources, and curriculum.

National civil rights organization run by young people. Contains information on key figures, timelines, voices, and maps of the organization.

The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.

The purpose is to freely make available the history of our movement from the perspective of those whose boots were on the ground — what we refer to as "up-from-below" and "inside-out" history.

Contains existing oral history collections with relevance to the Civil Rights Movement (CRM), and records new interviews with people who participated in the Movement.