The American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
The ACLU website has resources to help students learn about the American tradition of civil liberties. It also includes information on rights that impact the school community, such as students' rights and freedom of expression, and how recent affirmative action lawsuits and proposed legislations such as the new Patriot Act affect society and the individual. A “Freedom Quiz” gauges our understanding of freedom.

Civilrights.org
www.civilrights.org/
Civilrights.org is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. Its mission: to serve as the site of record for relevant and up-to-the minute civil rights news and information. Home to socially-concerned, issue-oriented original audio, video, and written programming, civilrights.org serves as an online nerve center not only for fighting discrimination in all its forms, but also for building the public understanding essential to our nation’s journey toward social and economic justice.

The Civil Rights Documentation Project
www.congresslink.org/civilrights/index.htm
The Civil Rights Documentation Project is an interactive, web-based presentation of the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Focused specifically on civil rights legislation, the project links to digitized historical materials and features a timeline of related legislative events of the 1960s.

The Civil Rights Project
www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/
The Civil Rights Project aims to help renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action. Focusing initially on education reform, it has convened dozens of national conferences and roundtables; commissioned over 90 new research and policy studies; produced major reports on desegregation, student diversity, school discipline, special education, and dropouts; and published a number of books. In any given month, CRP work is quoted in such national media as The Village Voice, The New York Times, Time Magazine and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.

Jim Crow History
www.jimcrowhistory.org
At this award-winning site, students can explore the history of racial injustice and resistance. Teachers can contribute to a bank of lesson plans. Simulation exercises teach students about historical contexts and help them rethink momentous personal and political decisions. An image gallery presents the human faces of segregation.

Rethinking Schools
www.rethinkingschools.org
In a special expanded issue, Rethinking Schools celebrates those who risked their lives to end the scourge of segregation and examines where we still need to go to eliminate racial inequities in our schools and our society. Activists and scholars provide unique perspectives on the Brown decision; classroom teachers offer teaching ideas, readings, and lessons on segregation and desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement.

Teaching for Change
www.teachingforchange.org
The Washington, DC-based Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into socially equitable centers of learning where students become architects of a better future. Their online catalogue is an excellent source for books, videos, and posters for the classroom, and the website includes an extensive resource directory of organizations and curriculum materials tied to civil rights education. Aiming to go beyond the “heroes approach” to the Civil Rights Movement, Teaching for Change, along with the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, has just published a book called Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching. The book includes interactive and interdisciplinary lessons, readings, writings, photographs, graphics, and interviews, with sections on education, labor, citizenship, culture, and reflections on teaching about civil rights.