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	Welcome to National Civil Rights Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On August 28, 1963, leading civil rights organizations sponsored one of the largest peaceful mass events in the history of the movement, the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." The event captured the attention of the nation - and the world.
		Although protests and petitions helped desegregate public facilities, civil rights advocates wanted the nation to see that their cause included more than the right to sit on a bus.
		Civil rights for all Americans - in the North and the South - had to include economic and political rights too, such as equal access to education, jobs, and housing.
	www.civilrightsmuseum.org /gallery12.asp (229 words)

	MSN Encarta
		One of the best-known proponents of civil disobedience (refusal to obey civil laws or decrees), Martin Luther King, Jr., advocated nonviolent protest in the fight for civil rights.
		School desegregation was a major part of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century.
		The Civil Rights Memorial, which honors 40 people who gave their lives between 1954 and 1968 in the fight for racial equality, was dedicated in 1989.
	encarta.msn.com /quiz_38/The_American_Civil_Rights_Movement.html (572 words)

	SPLCenter.org: Civil Rights Memorial
		Created by Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer Maya Lin, the striking fl granite memorial is located across the street from the Southern Poverty Law Center's office building in Montgomery, Alabama, a city rich with civil rights history.
		The Memorial is just around the corner from the church where Dr. King served as pastor during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-1956, and the capitol steps where the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march ended in 1965.
		The Civil Rights Memorial Center is adjacent to the Memorial.
	www.splcenter.org /crm/memorial.jsp (236 words)

	Civil Rights Memorial: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama is a memorial[?] to 40 people who died in the struggle for equal and integrated treatment of people of European and African descent.
		The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
		The monument was created by Maya Lin who also created the Vietnam Veteran Memorial[?] in Washington DC.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ci/Civil-Rights-Memorial.html (265 words)

	Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- Civil Rights Memorial
		"Civil rights history and fl history are such a pivotal part of Mississippi, and they should be honored on the Oxford campus because it is the state's flagship institution," said Markeeva Morgan of Coldwater, student initiative member and former vice president of UM's Black Student Union.
		Students decided that the campus needed a symbol that reflected positive effects of the civil rights movement and the struggle for equal access to education.
		The proposed completion date for the memorial, which will be located on the plaza between the Lyceum and the John D. Williams Library, is September 2002 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of integration on the UM-Oxford campus.
	www.crmvet.org /anc/2001arch/0107mem.htm (644 words)

	Civil Rights Memorial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The monument was created by Maya Lin who also created the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial was dedicated in 1989.
		The memorial is a round stone inverted cone, which is a fountain.
		As such, the memorial represents the aspiration of the American civil rights movement against racism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civil_Rights_Memorial (293 words)

	Mississippi: Tracing the Civil Rights Movement
		The Civil Rights Movement's beginning was officially marked in an all-but deserted place in a central Mississippi town called Money.
		A Civil Rights leader who led freedom rallies, and was shot in the back in his driveway.
		Various displays tell the story of the Civil Rights triumphs and tragedies that took place through the years in Jackson and Mississippi.
	www.aarp.org /travel/destinations/eastern_us/mississippi_tracing_the_civil_rights_movement.html (939 words)

	Images of the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, by Maya Lin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The design of the Vietnam Memorial led to additional commissions for Lin, this work commissioned by the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery.
		The circular fountain provides a timeline of important events in the civil rights movement, beginning in 1954 with the Supreme Court decision to integrate American schools (Brown vs. the Board of Education) and ending with Dr. King's murder in 1968.
		The passage engraved on the wall from Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech was part of the inspiration for this memorial and fountain.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/alabama/montgomery/civilrts/lin.html (274 words)

	Protesting for Civil Rights in the U
		The incredible self discipline of the American Civil Rights struggle, reinforced by oaths and lengthy training sessions and overseen by representatives from the fl churches, was not replicated in the Irish undertaking.
		Of all the differences between the two events, the most significant is that the American Civil Rights movement was integrated at every level, especially during the final year when whites from the North joined in large numbers (very few southern whites did so).
		Here are just a few possibilities: the denial of gay/lesbian civil rights; the death penalty; the military presence on campus; the use of pesticide sprays on the university lawn; age restrictive drinking laws.
	www.uni.edu /vanworme/civilrights.html (5369 words)

	Jewish War Veterans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing basic civil liberties, The Bill of Rights, is the shining beacon in the murky waters of legislative, executive and judicial power.
		Over the past 200+ years there have been many challenges to the liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, but in their infinite wisdom the founding fathers anticipated such challenges and difficulties for the fledgling nation, establishing an independent judiciary to interpret the laws of the legislature and determine the constitutionality of its actions.
		It is this government, which protects the rights of the minority equally with the majority, that the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. believes is the foundation of representative democracy and freedom world-wide.
	www.jwv.org /program/civil.html (413 words)

	Travel: Civil rights history lives in Alabama
		Birmingham was the first major Alabama city to develop its civil rights history, when the city's first fl mayor, Richard Arrington, helped create a historic district around the park and church where many demonstrations began.
		King later called the march "the most powerful and dramatic civil rights protest that has ever taken place in the South." It led to Congress passing the Voting Rights Act, which helped to open Southern voting booths to fls and made Mississippi and Alabama national leaders in the number of fls in public office.
		A few blocks away is the Civil Rights Memorial, a fl granite fountain bearing the names of 40 people killed during the struggle in the South.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/03/14/Travel/Civil_rights_history_.shtml (1684 words)

	Civil Rights Movement Timeline
		According to King, it is essential that the civil rights movement not sink to the level of the racists and hatemongers who oppose them: "We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline," he urges.
		Asserting that civil rights laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination, President Johnson issues Executive Order 11246, which enforces affirmative action for the first time.
		He defines it as an assertion of fl pride and "the coming together of fl people to fight for their liberation by any means necessary." The term's radicalism alarms many who believe the civil rights movement's effectiveness and moral authority crucially depend on nonviolent civil disobedience.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/civilrightstimeline1.html (1584 words)

	The Southern Register-Conference for the Book
		The Civil Rights Commemoration Initiative, as the group came to be known, worked to commission an artwork to honor those who struggled for and achieved equal access to educational opportunities in Mississippi.
		The memorial is a symbol of the University’s progress and its continuing responsibilities for insuring educational opportunity.
		The idea behind the memorial was born in a Southern Studies classroom, but it would not have become a reality without the commitment of a diverse assemblage of individuals and organizations.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/south/register/fall02/cover.htm (666 words)

	MLK Memorial
		Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. No federal funds will be used to construct the memorial.
		The memorial began as a project of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., of which Dr. King was a member.
		The King Memorial site is a four-acre plot across the tidal basin from the Jefferson Memorial and north of the memorial to President Roosevelt.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-adv/marketing/mlk_memorial/front.html (298 words)

	Virginia Alumni at the Ready on Civil Rights
		The memorial honors the achievements and memory of those who lost their lives during the Civil Rights Movement.
		Appropriately housed in a building in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, birthplace of the nation’s civil rights movement, the Center guards civil rights for exploited, abused, and often overlooked members of society.
		The Richmond native practiced law with civil rights attorney Charles “Chuck” Morgan, Jr., in Washington, DC, as the firm took on a variety of controversial cases.
	www.law.virginia.edu /html/alumni/uvalawyer/sp06/civil.htm (2192 words)

	Travels with Children
		Right there, I was able to comprehend the countless thousands of men who perished in the pursuit of Union, and those who fought to protect their way of life.
		First, we looked at the memorial, which was a circle with water running down the sides, which was to make you think of the quote by Martin Luther King Jr.
		For example, there was one girl who was so tired of the way people were separated that she sat down and wrote a book called 'The Boy who wanted a pet' where the children were all different colors of skin.
	www.travelswithchildren.com (951 words)

	Remembering the martyrs of the movement: the Civil Rights Memorial honors 40 who dies in America for basic freedoms - ...
		The Civil Rights Memorial, located in Montgomery, Ala., is a moving tribute to a historic era.
		The new memorial is an important shrine, a reminder that many lesser known persons put their lives on the line for freedom in this country.
		The dedication of the memorial was an emotional and inspiring event as 600 relatives of the honored martyrs mingled with such civil rights activists and dignitaries as Julian as Julian Bond, Martin Luther King 222, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Rosa Parks and thousands of other visitors who came to honor and and remember.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n4_v45/ai_8325347 (947 words)

	Civil Rights Memorial Project Underway in Va.
		The goal, Collis said after her husband signed Executive Order 96, is to create a statue honoring the leaders of Virginia's civil rights movement.
		The executive order Warner signed creates a Civil Rights Memorial Commission to direct the project, in accordance with a legislative resolution passed in February.
		Members were told a sculptor might be able to finish a memorial in time to coincide with the reopening of a renovated Capitol building in 2007.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072901825_pf.html (573 words)

	Civil rights memorial gains with Coke grant \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		ATLANTA – Coca-Cola has agreed to grant a piece of land next to the Georgia Aquarium for an attraction honoring Atlanta as the cradle of the civil rights movement.
		The civil rights attraction is expected to be a display site for the 7,000-document collection of Martin Luther King Jr., which a team of city leaders bought for $32 million this summer and donated to Morehouse College – saving them from the auction block.
		The city is in the first stages of planning a civil rights attraction, which could cost as much as $100 million.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20061024/news_1n24museum.html (294 words)

	Alabama Civil Rights History: Alabama Bureau of Tourism & Travel
		The Civil Rights Memorial Center in downtown Montgomery contains exhibits depicting momentous events that occurred in the city and explains how 40 activists died in the South between 1955 and 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
		Birmingham's Civil Rights District includes Kelly Ingram Park, where marches were formed, and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four young girls were killed by a racist's bomb.
		Across the street is the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the nation's finest civil rights museum.
	www.800alabama.com /things-to-do/activities/alabama-history/civil-rights.cfm (383 words)

	The Civil Rights District of Birmingham, Alabama
		The Birmingham Civil Rights District exemplifies ground-zero for the Civil Rights Movement.
		The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, which opened in 1993, tells the story of the Civil Rights struggle by presenting the conflict and horrors that took place in Birmingham.
		The city that vehemently fought integration and the Civil Rights Movement now hosts a district dedicated to reminding us from where we came and pointing onward to the work that remains.
	www.proseandphotos.com /birmingham.htm (1234 words)

	Civil rights play comes to Wilton March 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Later in his career, the baseball hall of famer put his life in serious danger as an advocate and activist for civil rights.
		Moved to action by the beatings of civil rights protesters in Alabama, she drove 1,000 miles to join the protest march led by Dr. Martin Luther King.
		She is enshrined on the National Civil Rights Memorial.
	www.acorn-online.com /news/publish/wilton/Civil_rights_play_comes_to_Wilton_March_12.shtml (397 words)

	MPR: Students take civil rights tour
		Here they are looking at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Ala., which is engraved with a list of milestones in the civil rights movement.
		The statues behind her honor the children of Birmingham who participated in the civil rights movement.
		Until the first civil rights tour in 1993, the school took students to areas of Minnesota like the Iron Range.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/200203/26_williamsb_civilrightstour (680 words)

	Civil Rights Memorial & Alabama Civil Right Movement - Holiday Inn Montgomery East
		Witness Montgomery's remarkable history as you behold the moving Civil Rights Memorial, replete with the names of those whose lives were lost in the struggle for freedom.
		Surrounded by important landmarks of the Alabama civil rights movement, the memorial is a powerful reminder of our nation's ongoing struggle against injustice.
		Conveniently located right off I-85, this hotel provides easy access to exciting Alabama attractions, historic museums, thrilling sporting events, and the Civil Rights Memorial Center.
	www.himontgomery.com /CivilRightsMemorial (269 words)

	El Semanario - FBI: civil rights deaths
		The names were gathered from research originally done in the late 1980s as the Center planned the Civil Rights Memorial, the fl granite monument designed by Maya Lin and dedicated by the Center in 1989.
		Research conducted in connection with the Civil Rights Memorial has played a key role in the reopening of recent civil rights era murders, including the indictment of Seale.
		The film and his conversation with the agents afterwards piqued Mitchell’s interest in unsolved civil rights murders and prompted his quest to bring unpunished killers to justice.
	www.elsemanario.net /news.php?nid=707 (455 words)

	Civil Rights:
		To investigate complaints alleging that citizens are being deprived of their right to vote by reason of their race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin, or by reason of fraudulent practices.
		Established by the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and reconstituted in 1983, it is directed, among other duties, to investigate and study discrimination and denials of equal protection of the laws on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin.
		The Civil Rights Directory was developed by the Commission's Public Affairs Unit under the supervision of Charles R. Rivera, Director of Public Affairs.
	www.wesoomi.com /williams/civilrts.html (4868 words)

	Students travel into civil rights' rich history - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He uses books, documentaries, audio recordings and reflections of civil rights movement veterans to teach the students about non-violence, compassion, faith and civic responsibility.
		Jack Treseler, 16, a junior at Sacred Heart Preparatory School in Atherton, Calif., was one of many students who were overcome with emotion at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery.
		After they slowly circled the fl stone memorial several times and touched the names of those killed, some students took a seat and placed their hands over their faces.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2007-02-22-students-civil-rights_x.htm (996 words)

	Learning Family in Selma & Montgomery, AL
		The words and melodies of the songs of the Civil Rights were often moving; bringing to mind the struggles that many endured in their quest for justice, and the cruelty and hypocrisy of those who would oppose them.
		It was an okay place, but there is a train track right next to the park and trains blast their horns as they cross the intersection.
		Alabama was also the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. The people, Black and White, have been at the center of one of the most important tides in American history.
	www.learningfamily.net /reiser/2kf/places/057civilrights (1339 words)

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