Civil Rights

Created by The Civil Rights Act of 1957; its mission is to inform the development of national civil rights policy.

Created in 1957 by the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1957; works to uphold the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans, particularly some of the most vulnerable members of our society.

Contains scanned documents and media of prominent Civil Rights leaders, activists, and events.

Since 1968, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has conducted the Civil Rights Data Collection to collect data on key education and civil rights issues.

A digital archive from the University of Michigan containing documents and images surrounding the case.

Initially created by students at Swarthmore College and overseen by peace and justice educators, the Global Nonviolent Action Database is dedicated to cases concerning human rights, democracy, economic justice, and more.

A library guide from Simmons University focused on anti-oppression resources and social justice.

The ACLU is a non-profit organization that concerns itself with defending individual freedoms, such as a woman's right to choose, the right to due process, freedom of speech and religion, and more; also gives overview of historical and current issues.

U.S. non-profit organization with a focus on education, tracking domestic hate groups, and criminal justice reform.

This section of the ABA works to address complex and difficult civil rights and civil liberties issues in our society.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is a nonprofit educational group that works to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s colleges and universities.