Pathfinders
are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media
on a topic
they are researching. They provide a head start for students
as they begin their research project.
CIVIL RIGHTS
To find books in the MHS Media Center, open
Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop.
Type in the topic, or the person's name you want to search. You
might also try civil rights movement, women and civil rights.
Some titles we have are:
323.092
VER |
Vernell, Marjorie.
Leaders of Black Civil Rights. San Diego, CA: Lucent
Books, 2000. |
323.1
FRE |
Freedman, Russell.
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. New York:
Holiday House, 2006. |
323.1196
RUB |
Rubel, David. The
Coming Free.
New York: DK, 2005. |
920
HAR |
Hardy, Sheila Jackson.
Extraordinary People of the Civil Rights Movement.
New York: Scholastic, 2007. |
REF
323.1
CIV |
The Civil Rights
Movement. (2 vols.) Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2000. |
REF
323.1
ENC |
The Encyclopedia of
Civil Rights in America. (3 vols.) Armonk, NY:
Sharpe, 1998. |
REF
973.049
AFR |
African American
History (3 vols.). Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2006. |
REF
973.049
AFR |
African-American
Experience on File.
New York: Facts on File,
1999. |
SELECTED WEB SITES
Civil Rights Resource Guide
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/civilrights/index.html
Extensive list of links to sites with civil rights information, posted
by the Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR.
InfoPlease-- Civil Rights Timeline
www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html
Timeline of the modern civil rights movement with links to people,
places and events.
Eyes on the Prize; America's Civil Rights Movement
1954 - 1985
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/index.html
Links to events of the Civil Rights Movement.
Best of History Web Sites -- U.S. History
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory.shtml
Links to many US History sites--scroll down the left hand column to Civil Rights.
Voices of Civil Rights
http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/index.html
Personal accounts of the Civil Rights Movement.
Civil Rights 101
http://www.civilrights.org/research_center/civilrights101/index.html
Founded by the Conference on Civil Rights, this group
provides links to a civil rights chronology, and information on women,
Native Americans, Asians, and Latinos.
Black History Hotlist
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html
Links to sites on slavery, the civil rights movement, African American
leaders and other information.
EASE History
http://www.easehistory.org/castream.asp?id=1
Select Protest Movements, then Civil Rights Movement--has photos and video
clips.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Infotrac
-- contains databases of magazine articles, a
biography resource, and health
and business references. Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded
Academic ASAP,
and Biography Resource Center.
bigchalk eLibrary
-- online reference center
including books, magazines, newspapers,
pictures, maps, and TV transcripts.
Massachusetts Newsstand
-- newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980
- current),
Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts
Newspapers.
Globe.
Grolier Online
-- 2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of
Knowledge and Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia.
Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also
to
relevant web sites where you can find more information on your topic.
REMOTE ACCESS
These databases are also available from
home. You can gain access to these resources from home by going to the
Answers...To Go! web page made available from the Northeast
Massachusetts Regional Library System:
http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbmvlc.html
and enter your public library
card number (from Methuen or any MVLC member library)
where you are prompted for a patron or user number.
CITING SOURCES
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