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Would you like to be able to view actual photographs, documents and file footage from the Civil Rights Movement from one central location? Well, you can do that without leaving home by visiting the Civil Rights Digital LIbrary online. Here's an excerpt from the Overview section of the Web site:

The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious and comprehensive efforts to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web. The struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s is among the most far-reaching social movements in the nation's history, and it represents a crucial step in the evolution of American democracy. The initiative promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement trough 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. The CRDL advances cross-disciplinary approaches, promoting a seamless infrastructure for learning, emphasizing context and structure for digital information, and recruiting and educating new leaders for a learning society. The Civil Rights Digital Library initiative achieves its desired outcomes through a partnership among digital library and information technology professionals, archivists, humanities scholars, educators, university graduate and undergraduate researchers, academic publishers, and public broadcasters.

The resources cover a period between 1954 and 1968, beginning at Brown v. Board of Education to Dr. King's assassination. Whether you are doing research for a school project or would just like to know more about the movement for your own enrichment, I suggest you grab a beverage, get comfy, and explore this online library. Who knows? You just may learn something new.

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130881

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Ooo, you know I love this stuff..... thanks so much for finding this.

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lanier77

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2008-06-17T10:00:42-06:00

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130884

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I can take no credit for this. The info was emailed to me. Glad you like the site!

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LatashaWillis

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2008-06-17T10:25:57-06:00

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130953

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Thank you! Our daughter has really shown an interest in African-American History and the civil rights movement. We both will love this.

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Lady Havoc

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2008-06-18T12:08:44-06:00

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131026

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You're welcome, LH. :-)

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LatashaWillis

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2008-06-19T16:33:48-06:00