African+American+Rights

General Information
Civil rights events - - Be sure to see Part 2 []

African American Civil Rights (ONLY FOCUS ON ITALICS) []

Useful topics: NAACP Black Panther Party Southern Poverty Law Center

**Civil Rights Timelines**
http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=61684

http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/black-history-timeline.jsp  Timeline of the Modern Civil Right Movement []

The Civil Rights Movement Timeline []

African Americans in the US Military http://www.army.mil/africanamericans/timeline.html

**African Americans in Sports**
Jesse Owens Museum http://www.jesseowensmuseum.org/

Struggle in sports http://www.africanaonline.com/sport_the_struggle.htm

Blacks in Baseball Timeline http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/1997/blackbaseball/frame.html

Blacks in basketball http://www.blackfives.com/timeline.htm

Hiring black coaches in the NFL http://espn.go.com/page2/s/whitlock/030212.html

Equal opportunity for black coaches in sports (NFL) http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35610

Blacks in sports http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaitsa.htm#baseball http://abcnews.go.com/US/BlackHistory/popup?id=1540455&contentIndex=1&page=6&start=false http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Davis_Ernie.html  African Americans – basketball []

African Americans in sports – lots of reading! []

Jack Johnson []

Racism in soccer http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/onyewu-goes-to-court-to-stop-racist-abuse/ http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=638815&cc=5901

**African Americans in education**
African Americans in education http://www.vahistory.org/massive.resistance/timeline.html

Opponents to look up: Governor Faubus of Arkansas "Southern Manifesto" William Fulbright

For Thurgood Marshall Search US Presidents Earl Warren

Buffalo Soldiers
Forest Service History Page http://www.fs.fed.us/fstoday/090814/03.0About_Us/buffalo_soldiers.html

National Park Service - Buffalo Soldiers http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/buffalo-soldiers.htm Scroll to bottom of page for many links about Buffalo Soldiers

Drawings by Remington (be sure to give credit!) http://giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/frederic_remington_18611909/

Forgotten American History Page http://www.buffalosoldiers-lawtonftsill.org/history.htm