The website of the National Civil Rights Museum has an interactive tour of the museum, focusing on major events of the African American experience from Nat Turner to Martin Luther King, Jr. Students can click through discussion topics in order to get to the events of the 1950s and 1960s.

Civil Rights Movement - This site from Spartacus Encyclopedia has a fine collection of biographical sketches of major Civil Rights leaders as well as general overviews of the major events of the movement. Many of the biographical sketches include primary source materials about each individual.

The African American Odyssey from the Library of Congress also has a section on the Civil Rights Era. The site contains a multitude of primary source documents and images related to the push for equality in the 20th century.