This is a list weblinks to places and online sites that have substantive information exhibits about the Freedom Movement which are open to the public (though some may require a tickets or reservations, and some may be temporarily closed due to the Covid pandemic).
1964 Freedom Summer Project, Wisconsin Historical Society. Madison, Wiscousin. Original documents pertaining and used by 1964 Freedom Summer project.
ACCORD Freedom Trail. Commemorating the Movement in St. Augustine, Florida.
African-American Odyssey — Civil Rights Era: Part of "A Quest for Full Citizenship" exhibit that explores black America's quest for equality. Online. Showcases collections of the Library of Congress — books, documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, etc.
Albany Civil Rights Institute. The movement in Albany and SouthWest Georgia. Albany Georga. Website under construction.
Americus-Sumter County Movement Remembered Committee. Remembering and commemorating the Freedom Movement in Americus and Sumter County Georgia.
Amistad Research Center. Housed at Tulane Univ. New Orleans, LA. Independent archive specializing in the history of African Americans and other Ethnic Minorities.
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Birmingham AL. Dedicated to the spirit and courage of those who dared to confront the bigotry and racial discrimination of American society.
Black Power Chronicles. Online. BPC helps fill the informational void that exists in our historical record about the impact of the Black Power Movement in local communities throughout America.
Center for Civil and Human Rights. Atlanta, GA.
Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture. Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL.
Civil Rights Commission ~ See U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)
Civil Rights Heritage Center. Indiana University South Bend. Description-Center that commerates the civil rights efforts in Indiana.
Civil Rights Trail. Online. U.S. National Park Service (NPS). Sites and landmarks.
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Project of University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. Primary sources and digitized versions of rare and unique archival resources on race relations in Mississippi.
CivilRightsTeaching.org. Online. Provides books, videos, and other resources for teaching about the Civil Rights Movement. Includes online lesson plans and links to several key civil rights websites. Hosted by Teaching for Change, a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC.
College Of Charleston-Avery Research Center For African American History and Culture. Charleston, South Carolina. Museum and archive dedicated to preserving the history of African Americans in South Carolina; including the civil rights movement.
Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Home museum dedicated to the lives and legacies of Medgar & Myrlie Evers and the history of the Mississippi Freedom Movement. Jackson MS.
Fannie Lou Hamer Political Institute, Jackson State University, Jackson MS.
Florida Civil Right Museum. Tallahassee, Florida. I ndependently operated museum dedicated to preserving the civil rights movement in Florida.
From Snarling Dogs to Bloody Sundays. Online. Teaching Past the Platitudes of the Civil Rights Movement (Rethinking Schools.)
Freedom Rides Museum. Montgomery, Alabama. Museum dedicated to telling the history of the Freedom Rides.
Freedom Riders Oral Histories. Online. University of Mississippi.
Green McAdoo Cultural Center. Memphis TN. Students at McAdoo helped to desegregate Clinton High School in Memphis, Tennessee.
International Civil Rights Center & Museum . Dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement. Located in the Woolworth's building in Greensboro, North Carolina where the famous February 1st 1960 sit-in took place.
The Jackson House. Detroit MI. Historic home where civil rights activists made significant plans during the civil rights movement.
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. Austin TX. Includes material and exhibits on the Civil Rights Movement.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Boston MA. Includes material and exhibits on the Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King Center, Atlanta GA. Large information center and online site.
Martin Luther King Research & Education Institute. Stanford Univ, Palo Alto CA. Online institute highlighting Dr King's activism through archival papers and resources.
Louisiana Civil Rights Museum. New Orleans, Louisiana. Museum explores the civil rights movement from Baton Rogue to New Orleans.
Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Jackson MS. Home museum dedicated to the lives and legacies of Medgar & Myrlie Evers and the history of the Mississippi Freedom Movement.
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964. Miami University, Oxford OH. Inspired by Freedom Summer's 60th anniversary. Reflect on, engage, and take meaningful action on voting rights and social justice today
Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Online Archives. The once-secret documents of Mississippi's infamous anti-civil rights agency.
Movement History Initiative , John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University.
Robert Russa Moton Museum. The 1951 student strike at this Virginia high school set in motion the lawsuits that resulted in the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
National Civil Rights Museum. Website of the museum in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Dedicated to assisting the public in understanding the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact and influence on the human rights movement worldwide.
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute. Site devoted to the Selma Freemdom Movement's fight for voting rights.
Pauli Murray Center. Durham, North Carolina. Pauli Murray was civil rights and LBGTQIA advocate.
Poverty & Race Research Action Council. A non-partisan, national, not-for-profit organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties and anti-poverty groups to link social science research to advocacy work in order to successfully address problems at the intersection of race and poverty.
Ralph Mark Gilbert Museum. Savannah GA. History of the Savannah NAACP chapter and its activism.
Rosa Parks Museum. Troy University. Montgomery AL. Dedicated to civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
Safe House Black History Museum. Greensboro AL. Safe house that provided shelter to many civil rights activists during the Civil Rights Movement.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NY Public Library)
SCOPE 50. Online. Preserving Civil Rights and the Story of Voting. Website of SCLC/SCOPE project activists.
Separate Is Not Equal Washington DC. Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Commemorates Brown v Board of Education school desegregation decision.
Sitting for Justice Washington DC. Smithsonian Museum of American History. Commemorates student sit-ins against segregation.
SNCC Digital Gateway (SDG). Online. A joint project of SLP and Duke University, SDG tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the South to build a grassroots movement for change that empowered the Black community and transformed the nation.
SNCC Legacy Project (SLP). Online. SLP preserves and extends SNCC's legacy. Bringing it forward in ways that continue the struggle for freedom, justice and equality today.
Social Action Collection. Madison WI. Wisconsin Historical Society. Documents major 20th-century social, political, and environmental movements both nationally and in Wisconsin.
South Carolina Civil Rights Museum. Orangeburg SC. History of the civil rights movement in the state of South Carolina.
Southern Oral History Project. Chapel Hill NC. Univerity North Carolina Center for the Study of the American South
Teaching for Change and Zinn Education Project. Online. Provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world by promoting and supporting the teaching of people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country.
TeachingHistory.Org. Online. History resources and materials for teachers.
Tennessee's Modern Movement for Civil Rights. Nashville TN. Tennessee State Museum.
Trenholm State Technical College Archives. Montgomery AL. Repository of collections of Montgomery and Alabama's pioneer voting and civil rights activists, circa 1870-present. The collections contain photographs, manuscripts, correspondences and small artifacts.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). Online. Historical Publications of USCCR (Univ of Maryland)
Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Online. Empowering the next generation, passing it on to carry it on by preserving the history of the Mississippi Movement.
We Shall Overcome Sites. National Historic Register of historic places of the Civil Rights Movement.
See also: Southern Freedom Movement Links, Movement Research Institution Links, Movement Bibliography, Database of CRM-Related Document & Oral-History Archives and Repositories.
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