Images from Free to Use and Reuse: Images of African American Women Changemakers,
a Library of Congress source set. https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/african-american-women-changemakers
Created by an act of Congress in 2009, the Civil Rights History Project is a joint initiative between the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It entailed surveying existing oral history collections relevant to the Civil Rights Movement and creating new interviews with people who participated in the struggle for justice and equality.
The collection now includes over 1,200 items: video recordings, full‐text transcripts, digitized photographs, and born‐digital video files. Interviewees come from a wide range of roles—lawyers, judges, local activists, students, musicians, farmers. They reflect on events such as the Freedom Rides (1961), the March on Washington (1963), the Selma‐to‐Montgomery March (1965), voter registration drives, the Orangeburg Massacre (1968), the Poor People’s Campaign, and more.
This guide is written for teachers to introduce you to the collection and to offer a few points of entry for you and your students. Access the Guide through the link in the downloads in the left sidebar or using the button below.