This page gathers resources in NCpedia that broadly cover the history and heritage of the Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina. It does not include all resources in NCpedia but rather a selection that covers important topics and events, including: background articles; events; politics and law; organizations and agencies; biographies; oral histories and personal accounts; and historic sites and monuments. These topics include many aspects of the movement for Civil Rights in North Carolina, including African American, Native American, and Women's history.

Background articles

Events

PCB Protests, Catalyst of the Environmental Justice Movement

Environmental Justice Movement

Politics and Law

Organizations, Agencies and Meetings

Selected Biographies

Oral Histories and Personal Accounts

Historic Sites and Monuments

Educator Resources


Civil Rights Background articles

All NCpedia entries related to Civil Rights

African American Civil Rights in North Carolina

American Indians, Sovereignty

Basketball and Civil Rights

Cherokee: Federal recognition and fight for Cherokee Rights

Civil Rights Movement (multi-part article)

Civil Rigths Sits-Ins

Discrimination

Eugenics

Greensboro Four

Greensboro Sit-Ins

Labor Unions and Civil Rights Unionism

Lumbee Indians: Education, Civil Rights

Lynching

Segregation (article)

Segregation (all NCpedia articles relating to segregation)

Women (multi-part)

Women Earn the Right to Vote

Women Suffrage

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Civil Rights Events

Constitutional Convention, 1868: "Black Caucus"

Congress of Racial Equality

Death to the Klan March

Freedom Rallies: Williamston, N.C., 1963

Wilmington Coup, 1898

Royal Ice Cream Sit-In, 1957

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Civil Rights Politics and Law

Brown v. Board of Education

Charlotte Three

Convention of 1835

Disfranchisement

Election Law

Emcanicipation

Eugenics Board

Fourteenth Amendment

Pearsall Plan

Plessy v. Ferguson

Pupil Assignment Act

School Desegregation

Speaker Ban Law

State Constitution (all NCpedia articles)

State v. Manuel

First Women Marines

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Civil Rights Organizations, Agencies and Meetings

Black Panther Party

Committee for Economic and Racial Justice

Congress of Racial Equality

Equal Rights League

Freedmen's Conventions

NC Commission of Indian Affairs

North Carolina Equal Suffrage Association

Radio Free Dixie

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

White Citizens' Councils

Wilmington Ten

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Civil Rights Selected Biographies

Angelou, Maya

Baker, Ella

Brown, Charlotte Hawkins

Chestnutt, Charles Waddell

Cooper, Anna Julia Haywood

Frinks, Golden

Galloway, Abraham

Graham, Frank Porter

Green, Paul Eliot

Greensboro Four

Harris, James Henry

Holland, Anna Wealthy

Hyman, John Adams

Jones, John

Kester, Howard Anderson

Larkins, John Rodman

Lowe, Dazelle Foster

Mabley, Jackie

Manly, Alex

Mitchell, John W.

Murray, Anna Pauline (Pauli)

Perry, Samuel L.

Price, Joseph Charles

Ralston, Elreta Melton

Richardson, Willis

Riddick, Elsie Garnett

Scruggs, Lawson Andrew

Shepard, James Edward

Simone, Nina

Spaulding, Charles Clinton

Thorpe, Earlie Endris

Tourgee, Albion Winegar

Weil, Gertrude

Wheeler, John Hervey

Wiggins, Ella May

Wright, Marion Allen

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Civil Rights Oral Histories and Personal Accounts

Bethea-Shields, Karen: In Joan Little's Shell (Joan Little Murder Trial)

Cannady, Mary: At Dr. King's House

Forbes, David: The Birth of the SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)

Fleming, Karl: Show me Life

Grant, Gary: A Boy Scout Jamborree to Remember

Sanders, Bunny: Serpents and Doves

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Civil Rights: Selected Historic Sites and Monuments

Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum

Durham's Black Wall Street

Greensboro Four Monument

First Light of Freedom Monument

Nina Simone Sculpture, Tryon

Palmer Memorial Institute

Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony

Woolworth store, Greensboro (NCpedia articles relating to Sit-In Movement)

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Civil Rights Educator Resources:

Civil Rights Lesson Plan, State Archives of North Carolina

Grade 8: Living History: Local Voices of the Civil Rights Movement. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/05/LivingHi...

Grade 8: Journey of Reconciliation, 1947. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/04/Journeyo...

Grade 8: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/05/Remember...

Grade 8: Freedom Rides of 1961. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/04/FreedomR...

Grade 8: Sitting Down To Stand Up For Democracy. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/04/SittingD...

Grade 8: North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1835. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/04/NCConsti...

Grade 8: Creating a Civil Rights Quilt. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/04/CivilRig...

Grade 8: Symbols and Words of Hate. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/05/SymbolsW...

Grade 8: NC’s Lumbee Fight for Justice:The Battle at Hayes Pond in Maxton, NC. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/05/LumbeeFi...

Grade 8: Poor Power: The North Carolina Fund & the Battle to End Poverty & Inequality in 1960s America. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/04/NCFund8-...

Grade 8: School Segregation. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/05/PlessyvF...

Grade 8: Moments in the Lives of Engaged Citizens who Fought Jim Crow. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/05/Momentsi...

Grade 8: North Carolina Constitution: An Introduction to NC’s State Constitution and Activities for Understanding It. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/04/NCConsti...

Grade 8: Albion Tourgee and the Fight for Civil Rights. North Carolina Civics Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/04/TourgeeF...

Grade 8: Exploring Life in 1898 Wilmington & the Wilmington Race Riot with Crow, a novel for young adults. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2013/05/1898Crow...

Grade 8: Nineteenth Amendment. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/05/Nineteen...

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Image Credits:

Cewatkin. "Front view of the A&T Four Statue along with the Dudley Building in the background." Photograph. 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_One#/media/File:A%26T_four_statue... (accessed April 5, 2016).

Citation

Agan, Kelly. "Exploring North Carolina: The Civil Rights Movement." NCpedia. Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina. Accessed on December 12th, 2024. http://ncpedia-02.dcs.mcnc.org/exploring-north-carolina-civil-rights-movement.