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Personal experience can be the most rewarding way to learn about the Civil Rights Movement. Civil rights history has also been documented through recorded sound, photographs, artifacts, moving images, and visual art. At "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" there are lists and descriptions of museums and research centers where you can learn about civil rights history through both visual and aural means, as well as primary written sources.

The Southern Regional Council has produced an audio documentary titled "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" The documentary is about the civil rights movement in five Southern communities and the music of those times.

Biographies, documents, maps, posters, images and other details are painstakingly represented at the Mississippi Burning Trial Documents (U.S. v. Cecil Price et al) website, part of Famous American Trials.

MIBURN (Mississippi Burning) provides a summary of the investigation of the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi as released under the Freedom of Information Act. The summary is 948 pages of material, edited to remove names and sometimes to remove whole sections of text.

The chillingly descriptive narrative Bending toward Justice: John Doar and the Mississippi Burning Trial, by Douglas Linder takes you from Oxford, Ohio, to Mississippi during the summer of 1964 from the perspective of John Doar, a deputy chief of the Justice Department's civil rights division.

The Civil Rights Documentation Project is sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and other organizations. The site features civil rights oral history transcripts - listed in alphabetical order. A number of these transcripts are of community activists who participated in Freedom Summer.

The Library of Congress showcases its collection at the African American Odyssey's Civil Rights Era pages of the African American Odyssey site.

A Freedom Summer exhibit is held at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Powerful Days showcases the civil rights photography of Charles Moore, a freelance photographer based in Alabama. Many of his photos on this subject have appeared in Life Magazine.

The National Civil Rights Museum has a virtual exhibit you can tour on a wide range of civil rights topics, including Freedom Summer, student sit-ins and desegregation.

Mississippi Burning (motion picture): A Selective Bibliography of Materials from the UC Berkeley Library

Nearly 1,000 student volunteers from colleges all over the country gathered in the Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, for training for Freedom Summer. Read about it and see the pictures at this website.

While Spartacus Educational publishes Teaching History Online from the UK, the information and resources on U.S. Civil Rights history will help teachers and students in their understanding of the people and issues.

The National Civil Rights Museum Web site includes an interactive historical tour.

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute captures the spirit and courage of countless individuals who, during the 1950's and 1960's, dared to confront the bigotry and racial discrimination of American society.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a non-profit organization that sponsors the Civil Rights Memorial which celebrates the memory of those who died during the Civil Rights Movement.

Created in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by students of Western Michigan University's Department of Political Science, the Timeline of American Civil Rights Movement offers descriptions, chronology and photos of the key elements of the American Civil Rights Movement.

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