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| Internet Resources | ||
| African American Mosaic | ||
| A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. ( http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html ) | ||
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| African American Odyssey | ||
| A Library of Congress exhibition, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections. Includes a wide array of important and rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings. ( http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/ ) | ||
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| African American Perspectives | ||
| This Library of Congress exhibition features The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection: material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love. Viewing images in this collection requires a special browser add-on. For more information please visit: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/view.html http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/view.html ) | ||
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| Votes for Women pictorial exhibit | ||
| A Library of Congress exhibition, Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920, includes photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons. ( http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html ) | ||
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| Votes for Women textual exhibit | ||
| 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, and Mary A. Livermore. ( http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html ) | ||
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| History Channel's Women's History Month exhibits | ||
| This site contains links, trivia, a timeline, and other information related to the women's rights movement. ( http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=mini_home&mini_id=1286 ) | ||
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| The American Indian Policy Center | ||
| The Center was established by Native Americans in 1992. Its site includes a political and legal history of Native Americans and examines current issues affecting them. ( http://www.airpi.org/ ) | ||
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP | ||
| The site includes historical and current information on the struggle of African Americans for equal rights. ( http://www.naacp.org/ ) | ||
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| National Council of La Raza NCLR | ||
| The website for an organization dedicated to improving the lives of Hispanics. Contains information on public policy, immigration, citizenship, and other subjects. ( http://www.nclr.org/ ) | ||
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| Center for the American Woman and Politics – CAWP | ||
| From the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, this site is an extensive resource on the status and political problems of American women. ( http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/ ) | ||
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| Suggested Library of Congress Headings | ||
| Separate is Not Equal | ||
| A timeline of the American civil rights movement from 1849 – 2003. ( http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/resources/pdfs/timeline.pdf#xml=http://americanhistor... ) | ||
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| American Rhetoric – Martin Luther King, Jr. – "I Have a Dream" | ||
| Offers an audio mp3 of this famous 1963 address. ( http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm ) | ||
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| Human Rights Watch – Women's Human Rights | ||
| Takes a worldwide perspective on struggles for women's rights as part of the international campaign for improved human rights. ( http://www.hrw.org/en/category/topic/women%E2%80%99s-rights ) | ||
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| Americans with Disabilities Act | ||
| The official Department of Justice homepage on this important law. ( http://www.ada.gov/adahom1.htm ) | ||
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