Civil rights: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Julie B. Armstrong et al. (eds.), Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom’s Bittersweet Song (2002); William Friedheim, Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction (1996); Steve Louie and Glenn K. Omatsu (eds.), Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment (2001); Bob Purdie, Politics in the Streets: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland (1990); Anthony H. Richmond, Global Apartheid: Refugees, Racism, and the New World Order (1994).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Article title updated for style. Oct 31, 2026
Modified link of Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - Civil Rights. Jul 27, 2026
Article revised. May 22, 2026
Add new Web site: Digital Commons at UM Carey Law - Civil Rights and the 1960s: A Decade of Unparalleled Progress (PDF). May 04, 2026
Add new Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - Civil Rights. Mar 28, 2026
Add new Web site: CORE - Civil Rights and Human Rights: A Call for Closer Collaboration (PDF). Feb 03, 2026
Add new Web site: CORE - Eleanor Roosevelt and Civil Rights (PDF). Sep 13, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 20, 2025
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Civil Rights and Global Liberation. Feb 10, 2025
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Toward a Human Rights Agenda: Social Issues That Have Shaped Psychology in the United StatesPsychology in the United States. Dec 11, 2024
Media added. Jun 26, 2024
Add new Web site: U.S. Departmaent of Health and Human Services - Civil Rights. Jun 18, 2024
Links added. Apr 30, 2024
Media added. Mar 08, 2024
Links added. Oct 09, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Central Florida Pressbooks - What are Civil Rights and How do we identify them? Apr 25, 2023
Add new Web site: OpenStax - American Government 3e - Civil Rights Introduction. Jan 05, 2023
Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - A Class Apart: Are Mexicans White? Aug 18, 2021
Add new Web site: Learning for Justice - Latino Civil Rights Timeline, 1903 to 2006. Aug 17, 2021
Corrected display issue. Apr 14, 2021
Changed “black” to “Black.” Aug 24, 2020
Expanded the discussion of the LGBTQ civil rights movement. Aug 21, 2019
Add new Web site: UShistory.org - American Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights Timeline. Jun 27, 2016
Add new Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Civil Rights. Feb 25, 2014
Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Komodo Dragon. Dec 19, 2013
Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Komodo Dragon. Dec 19, 2013
Add new Web site: National Geographic Kids - Animals - Komodo Dragon. Dec 19, 2013
Add new Web site: Australian Zoo - Komodo Dragon. Dec 19, 2013
Add new Web site: World Wide Fund For Nature - Komodo Dragon. Dec 19, 2013
Add new Web site: CRW Flags - Flag of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, United States. Apr 17, 2013
Add new Web site: The White House - Civil Rights. Apr 17, 2013
Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Civil Rights. Apr 17, 2013
New bibliography added. Mar 12, 2013
New article added. Mar 12, 2013
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