Civil Rights History ProjectThe Civil Rights History Project is an archive of oral histories of activists and direct observers of the people, places, and events that brought about sweeping, often traumatic, changes in American society. In addition to being activists, interviewees were members of prominent organizations during the struggle, such as the NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Some events interviewees discussed are the Freedom Rides (1961), the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), the Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965), sit-ins, southern voter registration drives, and Emmett Till's murder in 1955.
This collection contains some 400 items, 58 of which are currently available online, including videos, digital photographs, and interview transcripts.